Category: GIS
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Storm’s a comin’! Get your data ready!
It’s that time of year again! If you haven’t taken advantage of their data, now’s a great time to show students the progression of the storm. The National Hurricane Center has their GIS data ready to download and pull into your favorite GIS application. Just click DOWNLOAD GIS DATA. Whether you’re using a free product… Read more
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Teach Reading and Writing with Geospatial Technologies
Reading, Writing and Thinking Around the Globe: Geospatial Technologies for the English Language Arts and Beyond by Barbaree Ash Duke If you’re looking for realistic ideas for implementing 21stCentury tools into your classroom, then this is the book for you. Harness the power of online mapping, virtual globes and online content! Spotlighted areas, reading and writing, foster… Read more
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AgTech Camp – Great Fun in Sweetwater, TX
We had a great day here in Sweetwater, Texas! I had the honor of doing a workshop for 20 great Ag teachers here on the Texas State Technical College West Texas campus. We talked about geospatial technologies for agriculture and the classroom. We got outside with our GPS units and mapped farms, invasive species, ponds,… Read more
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Geospatial Revolution
I had the priviledge of hearing Fred Hoffman from the Roanoke Governor’s School this summer at the National Summit for GIS in K-12 Education at JMU discuss remote sensing. He shared a resource with us from Penn State called the Geospatial Revolution Project. I heard it again at the the ESRI Users Conference this July.… Read more
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Spatial Advertising
Thanks to Dr. Henk Scholten for sharing some great spatial examples in his plenary address to the ESRI Education Users Conference. One that caught my eye was a Dutch ad for coffee. http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/278-ice-coffee-town-the-netherlands/ You can examine some of his work at EduGIS (www.edugis.nl) and GeoDan (www.gedan.com). He shared some great perspectives on how GIS affects… Read more
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Create Your Own Earth Story with Earth Live
Check out Discovery’s Earth Live. You can view other stories or create your own original with their interactive online tools. http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/discovery-earth-live/discovery-earth-live.html http://gisined.blogspot.com http://www.barbareeduke.com Read more
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GIS in Education Articles and Resources
The folks at eSchool News teamed up with ESRI to publish a nice collection of online articles. Have a look:http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/gis-and-geographic-inquiry/ http://gisined.blogspot.com http://www.barbareeduke.com Read more
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Great GIS in Education Search Tool!
EdGIShttp://edgis.org/edgis/ Happy searching! http://gisined.blogspot.com http://www.barbareeduke.com Read more
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GIS Student Contest
Thought the GIS edu folks might be interested… GeoWeb 2008 Conference – 1st Student ContestGeoWeb is the industry leading event focused on GIS and the Internet Do you have what it takes to develop a piece of software or a solution to a theoretical problem to win our student contest? If you do, then we… Read more
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GIS Student Contest
Thought the GIS edu folks might be interested… GeoWeb 2008 Conference – 1st Student ContestGeoWeb is the industry leading event focused on GIS and the Internet Do you have what it takes to develop a piece of software or a solution to a theoretical problem to win our student contest? If you do, then we… Read more