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Fun with GIS 130: Change the World
The mission: Change education, by helping other educators understand the world, using GIS. Since 2009, educators have gathered for a week in June at Esri headquarters in Redlands, CA, for the Teachers...
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Fun with GIS 131: Show Me Some STEM
Want a crowd at an education event? Put “STEM” in your title. Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics is a stronger attention grabber than ever. Whether or not the phrase was used, STEM education...
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Fun with GIS 132: Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy is raging. It has been decades since such a storm hit the mid-Atlantic to New England. Sandy has already created havoc, and many will suffer. Yet it is exciting to me, because for days...
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Election, ArcGIS Online, History and GIS, webmapping, curriculum, ArcLessons
I have created a data set containing electoral history for the past 56 years in ArcGIS Online, so you and your students can interact with it, teach with it, and explore patterns. To accompany the data...
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Fun with GIS 134: iPad GIS
Once upon a time, computers were huge and slow. Now? I’m typing this and snagging screenshots on an iPad. These devices rock for reading and writing. But can they do GIS? It depends on what you want to...
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Bringing People Together: Geotechnology and Arts Street Denver
Recently I taught a class for http://www.arts-street.org, a visionary organization that cultivates low-income and under-served youth into a creative and culturally competent workforce. They “use the...
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Mapping Your Educational Research
What is the average number of staff development hours per year for teachers within and across countries? What is the association between student-teacher ratios and student achievement in a country or...
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Maps and the Geospatial Revolution MOOC
Wouldn’t it be amazing if thousands of people could learn about the power of mapping, start making their own web maps, and begin thinking spatially in new ways? MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses)...
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Examining volcanoes of the world using webcams and ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online makes it easy to create engaging content on relevant issues of our planet tied to real-time data. For example, as part of our focus on created STEM (Science Technology Engineering and...
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Fun with GIS 144: USA Demographics for Schools
In August of 2010, Fun With GIS #55 showed how educators and students could use ArcGIS Online for free, easily, while studying demographic patterns of the US. Ten layers of data at state, county,...
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Teaching Spatial Concepts with Viewsheds
I recently posted a set of activities based on using web-based GIS tools to teaching spatial thinking using drive-time buffers. Viewsheds are another type of buffer. Viewsheds indicate how much...
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Teaching Spatial Concepts with Zonal Statistics
I recently created a set of activities based on using web-based GIS tools to teaching spatial thinking using drive-time buffers, and another set of activities that use viewsheds. Another type of...
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Break On Through to the Other Side: Routing Around Barriers
I recently created a set of activities based on using web-based GIS tools to teach spatial thinking using drive-time buffers, a set of activities that use viewsheds as a teaching tool, another on the...
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The 15 Minute Story Map
Can you build an Esri Story Map in 15 minutes? Yes! The map I created in that amount of time shows my walk from the San Diego Convention Center to the San Diego airport. I was in that wonderful city...
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People Living in Water? Reflections on Data Quality
In my last post, I introduced a dot map of population change and discussed ways it could foster critical and spatial thinking in education. Now let’s go beyond understanding which regions are...
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Embedding videos in Story Maps Using CSV files
In the newest release of ArcGIS Online, the Story Map Tour Template allows you to incorporate videos in new and existing map tours. This week I gave it a try and was very pleased with the results and...
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Fun with GIS 149: Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS (T3G)
Faith in education is never better exemplified than by a passionate educator. Watching a learner (better still, a whole pack) grasp the impact of new information or succeed with a key skill is...
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Mapping the Environment: 10 Resources
My colleague Tom Baker and I recently met with environmental educators at the North American Association for Environmental Education annual conference. Our messages there through our Esri exhibit...
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Fun with GIS 150: Scaffolding
“GIS looks so exciting. And I know the perfect project. I just need to know what button to push.” This is a comment that I and others who work with educators hear frequently. After watching people...
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Fun with GIS 151: State License Org
ArcGIS Online offers opportunities for learners, educators, and influencers to explore, analyze, and collaborate with maps. Organization accounts offer even more capacity than is available with public...
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