EdCommunity Webinar: Fast Web Mapping with ArcGIS Explorer Online and...
Webinar tonight! Fast Web Mapping with ArcGIS Explorer Online and Community Atlas Thursday 4 November 2010 Time: 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central/7:00PM Mountain/6:00PM Pacific Duration: 45 minutes with...
View ArticleFun with GIS #65: Mapping Fresh Water
Geography Awareness Week (Nov 14-20) 2010 has a theme of “fresh water.” This critical topic is easy to explore with GIS, whether on GIS Day (Nov 17, 2010) or any day, using resources of ArcGIS Online....
View ArticleGeography Awareness Week: Studying Freshwater
Happy Geography Awareness Week! Since 1987, the National Geographic Society has promoted this event to show that geography education is relevant to a whole host of issues in our world, and to...
View ArticleHappy GIS Day 2010!
Happy GIS Day – 17 November 2010! If you are addressing GIS professionals or educators today, refer them to: http://www.geomentor.org and encourage them to sign up to be a geomentor or an educator....
View ArticleUsing ArcGIS Online to Analyze the Toxic Spill in Hungary
A reservoir at an alumina factory in Hungary burst in early October 2010, causing a toxic torrent of water to flow through three villages and creeks. People and fish died; livelihoods were destroyed....
View ArticleTen Ways to Teach and Learn About Water Using ArcGIS Online
Just in time for Earth Day, but suitable for use throughout the year in geography, earth science, environmental science, chemistry, social studies, and in other disciplines is a new lesson that invites...
View ArticleTeaching about Watersheds and River Systems with ArcGIS Online
Teaching about watersheds and river systems has long been a major theme of physical geography, earth science, and environmental science instruction. ArcGIS Online now provides capabilities for...
View ArticleGIS Brings Value to Community Based Projects
One of the ways that spatial thinking with geotechnologies is being incorporated into teaching and learning is through relevant community-based projects and settings. One of the most compelling ones I...
View ArticleAdvancing the map in US 8th grade Earth Science
Geographic concepts and mapping are perhaps one of the best-kept secrets in many school subjects – subjects that may not, to the casual observer, appear to have much geography. Earth science is one...
View ArticleForests to Faucets: Teaching and Learning about Natural Resource...
One of the chief advantages that GIS has always had as an instructional and research tool is its ability to help people understand interconnections between issues, phenomena, and data. A set of...
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