GISetc is excited to launch SEVEN, seven lesson plans over the remaining seven months of school relating to our recent global population surge to seven billion. Over the next seven months, we will feature a great free resource to help you teach in your classroom. Look to us on the seventh of each month for a new installment in our SEVEN series. We hope you can incorporate SEVEN in your classroom and thank you for your continued support!
GeoTech 2012: March 1-3 GeoTech allows teachers to explore the most cutting edge technologies available in education today. Industry and classroom leaders will offer hands on workshops on using the latest tools in education to enhance curriculum and stimulate the imagination. Join us as we explore these exciting new developments in instructional technology. The conference consists of 2 days of extensive hands-on workshops on March 1 - 2, 2012 on topics from geospatial technologies, social media, Web 2.0 and much more! Saturday, March 3, offers innovative mini-workshops and presentations across a variety of grade levels, technologies, and curriculum strands. There will be ...
Costa Rica: June 30 - July 8 We are eager to invite teachers of all levels to build their technology skills and experience sustainable development in Costa Rica. You will discover lush tropical environments ranging from rainforest, grasslands, rivers, foothills, and their impact on the marine national park of Marino Ballena. These 9 days will offer a blend of engaging hands-on experiences in digital technologies, useful in offering key community leaders and businesses valuable products, resulting in meaningful service. For over a decade, GISetc has hosted trainings in fascinating settings to support classroom implementation of GIS technology. Incorporating field notebook observations, digital ...
We have introduced product bundles into our shop to give you BIG savings on our GIS classroom essentials. Be sure to browse all the different combinations and price points we have available. Some bundles include software and digital content as well as printed texts. All include valuable lesson plans and resources ready to integrate into your classroom!
GISetc and Geological Society of America Education have joined together to offer the GPS Loaner Program. Class sets of Garmin eTrex GPS units are available for a two week loan to educators who would like to introduce GPS technology to their students, but who are not in a position to invest in units. Schools who are interested would need to pay for shipping to and from their school, a small administrative fee and sign an agreement to return the units in a timely manner. Our units are limited, so please be sure to schedule sufficiently in advance. If you ...
This powerful tool from ESRI allows you to achieve a greater understanding of how local environments affect health. My Place History is a way to link public health information with personal environmental experience. Utilize geomedicine, a modern framework for bringing everyday information into the physician/patient relationship or to understand and explain health trends . As more [...]
HealthLandscape is an interactive web-based mapping tool that allows health professionals, policy makers, academic researchers, and planners to combine, analyze and display information in ways that promote better understanding of health and the forces that affect it. The tool brings together various sources of health, socio-economic and environmental information in a convenient, central location to [...]
If you’ve never done an online virtual jigsaw puzzle before, you’re in for a real treat! Click here to enjoy dozens of beautiful, data rich puzzles from National Geographic.
This video shows all edits made to the OpenStreetMap project in 2011. OpenStreetMap is a free geographic database that anyone can edit; it’s like the wikipedia of mapping data. This animation shows all additions and modifications of nodes (white flashes) and cumulative edits (purple) in 2011. It gives a good overview of the effort that [...]
GISetc is in training sessions today at Region 10 ESC. Click here to view the updated handout – GIS Handout Reg 10
This is a GREAT tool! If you are tired of typing on your tablet or touch device – you need to download Dragon immediately! Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to [...]
As many may know, Dr. Kristi Alvarez, of University of Redlands, was diagnosed with cancer early this fall. She fought mightily these past several months but passed away early this morning, January 26, 2012. Kristi was the consummate geographer being the 2010 president of National Council of Geography Education, past New Hampshire NGS Alliance Coordinator, [...]
Tagging of Pacific Predators began in 2000 as one of 17 projects of the Census of Marine Life, an ambitious 10-year, 80-nation endeavor to assess and explain the diversity and abundance of life in the oceans, and where that life has lived, is living, and will live. Several dozen TOPP researchers from eight countries began venturing into [...]
This image shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun’s northeastern hemisphere this week. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth. Geomagnetic storms cause awesome sights, but they can also bring trouble. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, problems can include current surges in [...]
Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history. Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, [...]
