# gisetc.com

> Empowering Education with Geospatial Technologies


## Posts

- [Meteors, Sedona - August 23](https://gisetc.com/meteors-sedona-august-23/): Today was less for the gourmand but we did find a nice little Thai restaurant in Flagstaff called Dara Thai.
- [Sunset Crater & the Grand Canyon - August 22](https://gisetc.com/sunset-crater-the-grand-canyon-august-22/): At every opportunity, we ask locals about food. Today was no exception.
- [New Mexico Flora and Geology August 21](https://gisetc.com/desert-flora-2/): To continue day one, we drove north out of Albuquerque and witnessed some of the most amazing geography! There were mesas and buttes and the Sandia Mountains.
- [Eat, Play, MAP - GISetc Goes on TOUR! August 19/20](https://gisetc.com/795-2/): Welcome to our \"Eat, Play, Map\" Series of posts. Believe it or not, GISetc is on vacation!
- [3-D Printer Complete Progression (a.k.a. LIVE from Bismarck)](https://gisetc.com/3-d-printer-complete-progression-a-k-a-live-from-bismarck/): 3D Printer widget progression from beginning to end. Stay tuned and watch a 3 dimensional object created in front of your eyes!
- [Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Video](https://gisetc.com/nasa-video/): Credit: NASA/Goddard/Jen Shoemaker Two NASA satellites are capturing images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began April 20, 2010, with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
- [More from Eyjafjallajokull](https://gisetc.com/more-from-eyjafjallajokull/): Geospatial News from Boston.com As ash from Iceland\'s Eyjafjallajokull volcano continued to keep European airspace shut down over the weekend, affecting millions of travelers around the world, some government agencies and airlines clashed over the flight bans.
- [Eyes in the Sky II](https://gisetc.com/eyes-in-the-sky-ii/): Eyes In The Sky II is a NASA grant assisted program awarded to the Technical Educational Research Center (TERC) to lead a cohort of 100 science teachers to leverage NASA imagery to teach high school science.
- [10 Tips on Working With Your Local School](https://gisetc.com/10-tips-on-working-with-your-local-school/): by Joseph Kerski A frequent listserv topic amongst GIS professionals is “best strategies for making a presentation in a local school.\" While at the USGS, I visited over 300 schools over 15 years, and still visit occasionally as part of my position at ESRI.
- [4H Feature: El Dorado CA Community Mapping](https://gisetc.com/4h-feature-el-dorado-ca-community-mapping/): WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
- [FREE GIS Data](https://gisetc.com/frii-gis-data/): This amazing free GIS data portal is hosted by the University on Wisconsin-Madison.
- [Introducing: GISetc TV!](https://gisetc.com/introducing-gisetc-tv/): Excites students about GIS.
- [Safaris, Trash and Adventures: GeoTech 2010](https://gisetc.com/safaris-trash-and-adventures-geotech-2010/): by Barbaree Duke Don\'t be fooled by the conference title! It\'s not just about geography and technology. GeoTech is an opportunity to expand your horizons.
- [GSA\'s EarthTrek: Gravestones Talking Through Time](https://gisetc.com/gsas-earthtrek-gravestones-talking-through-time-3/): A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well.
- [GSA\'s EarthTrek: Gravestones Talking Through Time](https://gisetc.com/gsas-earthtrek-gravestones-talking-through-time-2/): A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well.
- [GSA\'s EarthTrek: Gravestones Talking Through Time](https://gisetc.com/gsas-earthtrek-gravestones-talking-through-time/): A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well.
- [GSA: Plate Tectonics LIVE! Iceland 2010](https://gisetc.com/gsa-plate-tectonics-live-iceland-2010/): A true earth scientist’s dream, Iceland’s rich geologic history and northern latitude provides the geology enthusiast the ultimate field exploration.
- [GeoTagging in Education Blog](https://gisetc.com/geotagging-in-education-blog/): GeoTagging: The process of attaching geographic information to digital media, most often photos.
- [Sketch-A-Map](https://gisetc.com/sketch-a-map/): Check out Sketch-A-Map, a creative tool to integrate maps into your lesson plans! Learn More...
- [Did You See?: Olympic 3D Virtualizations](https://gisetc.com/did-you-see-olympic-3d-virtualizations/): NBC\'s Olympic Coverage featured fly-through simulations from DigitalGlobe and AEgis that gave viewers the interactive feeling of being there.
- [Our Thanks to Cliver Rioja, Peruvian Naturalist!](https://gisetc.com/our-thanks-to-cliver-rojas-peruvian-naturalist/): Cliver Rioja, Peruvian Naturalist Guide, visited Dallas from his hometown of Iquitos, Peru, during the week of January 23 – 29, 2010. Mr.
- [Mark Francek\'s Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction](https://gisetc.com/mark-franceks-resources-for-earth-sciences-and-geography-instruction-3/): This website contains links which are organized alphabetically around the sequence of topics typically taught in an introductory earth science or physical geography class.
- [Mark Francek\'s Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction](https://gisetc.com/mark-franceks-resources-for-earth-sciences-and-geography-instruction-2/): This website contains links which are organized alphabetically around the sequence of topics typically taught in an introductory earth science or physical geography class.
- [Mark Francek\'s Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction](https://gisetc.com/mark-franceks-resources-for-earth-sciences-and-geography-instruction/): This website contains links which are organized alphabetically around the sequence of topics typically taught in an introductory earth science or physical geography class.
- [ESRI GIS Education Community](https://gisetc.com/esri-gis-education-community/): Visit the ESRI Education Community - a living environment for the exchange of ideas and experiences, curriculum, software, and data between GIS educators around the globe.
- [Past Training: Australia 2009 (Part 3)](https://gisetc.com/past-training-australia-2009-part-3/): Earth Science Explorations Down Under The Red Heartland of Australia You may have followed this post from our other reflections across Australia and now we head into the heart of the continent to experience Uluru, Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon.
- [ESRI ArcLessons](https://gisetc.com/esri-arclessons/): ArcLessons is a resource for you to share lessons for using GIS in the classroom.
- [Newsletter Archives: April 2010 Quick Links](https://gisetc.com/newsletter-archives-april-2010-quick-links/): 10 Tips on Working With Your Local School A frequent listserv topic amongst GIS professionals is “best strategies for making a presentation in a local school.\" While at the USGS, I visited over 300 schools over 15 years, and still visit occasionally as part of my position at ESRI.
- [Newsletter Archives: March 2010](https://gisetc.com/newsletter-archives-march-2010/): A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well.
- [Newsletter Archives: March 2010 Quick Links](https://gisetc.com/newsletter-archives-march-2010-quick-links/): Throughout the United States, 4-H youth, scouts, and K-12 classrooms have taken the lead - using GIS and GPS to study their localities and visually depict what they find.
- [Newsletter Archives: February 2010](https://gisetc.com/newsletter-archives-february-2010/): This professional development opportunity will investigate some of the latest cutting edge technologies available in teaching today.
- [Newsletter Archives: November 2009](https://gisetc.com/newsletter-archives-november-2009/): Have you seen the hottest new GISetc flair? Just in time for your holiday purchasing for those geo \'special\' friends of yours.
- [Past Training: Australia 2009 (Part Two)](https://gisetc.com/australia-2009-part-two/): Our group could not imagine enjoying anything more than the time we spent in the Sydney Basin, but forge on we did!After breakfast with the koalas at Sydney Wildlife World, we flew to the northeastern coast of Queensland, Australia.
- [Past Training: Australia 2009 (Part One)](https://gisetc.com/australia-2009-part-one/): GISetc (Anita & Roger Palmer) and Geological Society of America education (Gary Lewis) decided that taking educators to Australia would be a tremendous way to learn about the physical geography and geology of this far away continent.
- [Past Training: Peruvian Amazon 2008](https://gisetc.com/peruvian-amazon-2008/): Peruvian Amazon Field Training Itinerary Day 1: Lima Depart for Lima with late evening arrival. Transfer to hotel.
- [Past Training: Costa Rica 2008](https://gisetc.com/costa-rica-2008/): Costa Rica Field Training Itinerary May 11: San José Upon arrival at the Juan Santamaría International Airport in San José, after clearing immigration and customs, we meet our guide and driver.
- [Past Training:: ArcView 9.2 Workshop Bismarck 2008](https://gisetc.com/arcview-9-2-workshop-bismarck-2008/): ArcView 9.2 SUMMER WORKSHOP Bismarck, North Dakota June 2008 Learn fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and obtain a one-year site license of ArcGIS and Extensions for your campus.
- [Past Training: Bismarck 2007](https://gisetc.com/bismarck-2007/): Great Plains GIS & Geospatial Workshop Bismarck State College, Bismarck, North Dakota August 2007 Instructors: Mr. Roger Palmer, Mrs.
- [Past Training: Costa Rica 2007](https://gisetc.com/costa-rica-2007/): Field Based Learning with GISetc and SLCC Costa Rica GIS Institute June/July 2007 Costa Rica is an emerald gem set in the heart of Central America.
- [Past Training: Peruvian Amazon 2007](https://gisetc.com/peruvian-amazon-2007/): Peruvian Amazon with GISetc July/August 2007 Peru\'s natural diversity provides a stunning backdrop for a wealth of ancient civilizations, including the cities of the Inca, the most powerful empire in Pre-Columbian South America.
- [Past Training: Colorado 2006](https://gisetc.com/colorado-2006/): SUMMER RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTE Learn GIS, GPS, and Geographic Field Studies in 1,000 acres In the Beautiful Colorado Front Range July/August 2006 Instructors: Dr.
- [Past Training: Costa Rica 2006](https://gisetc.com/costa-rica-2006/): Costa Rica is an emerald gem set in the heart of Central America.
- [Past Training: NASA Ames GIS & GPS Workshop 2006](https://gisetc.com/nasa-ames-gis-gps-workshop-2006/): Learn fundamentals of these geospatial tools: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Remote Sensing by designing a project in south San Francisco tidal salt marsh wetlands using data gathered in these areas.
- [Past Training: Bismarck 2005](https://gisetc.com/training-archives-bismarck-2005/): ArcView 9.x SUMMER WORKSHOP at Bismarck State College August 2005 Learn fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and obtain a site liscence of ArcView for your campus.
- [Past Training: New Zealand 2005](https://gisetc.com/new-zealand-2005/): GEOTECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION EVENT REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS New Zealand 2005 Written by:Joseph J.
- [Direction Magazine\'s OFF THE BEATEN PATH](https://gisetc.com/direction-magazines-off-the-beaten-path-3/): Directions Media strives to be the very best resource for geospatial professionals and information technology workers who want to understand and capitalize on location-based information.
- [Direction Magazine\'s OFF THE BEATEN PATH](https://gisetc.com/direction-magazines-off-the-beaten-path-2/): Directions Media strives to be the very best resource for geospatial professionals and information technology workers who want to understand and capitalize on location-based information.
- [Direction Magazine\'s OFF THE BEATEN PATH](https://gisetc.com/direction-magazines-off-the-beaten-path/): Directions Media strives to be the very best resource for geospatial professionals and information technology workers who want to understand and capitalize on location-based information.
- [The Top Five Skills Needed to Have a Successful GIS Career](https://gisetc.com/the-top-five-skills-needed-to-have-a-successful-gis-career/): Our editors offer their suggestions to those looking to enhance their career in GIS by listing the top five skills they believe those individuals should possess.
- [Maps: How We Engage With Our Cities](https://gisetc.com/maps-how-we-engage-with-our-cities/): So you’re off to the Festival of Books. New place this year at USC, requiring a new route from your house.
- [We Will Never Forget You](https://gisetc.com/we-will-never-forget-you/): As a nation, today is a day of somber remembering.
- [Apps We Love: Geology AZ](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-geology-az/): Geology AZ is the Arizona version of the first GIS (geographical information system) for the iPhone.
- [Cell Phone Data Maps - How We Connect](https://gisetc.com/2212-2/): The New York Times compiled cell phone data to show the connections between people.
- [Apps We Love: iRecycle](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-irecycle/): Do you recycle? iRecycle! Recycling is the easiest and most accessible way to get people plugged into sustainability.
- [Back to School Resource Broadcast 2011](https://gisetc.com/back-to-school-resource-broadcast-2011/): We published our Back to School Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, summer product releases and GeoSpatial fun.
- [A Geographic View of History](https://gisetc.com/a-geographic-view-of-history/): We are excited to introduce an exciting new resource for teachers: A Geographic View of History by Herb Thompson.
- [LENS: LEarNing Spatially](https://gisetc.com/lens-learning-spatially/): Much of the information in the world has a geographic component, and spatial factors affect every aspect of our lives.
- [NEAVE Planetarium: Explore Your Sky!](https://gisetc.com/neave-planetarium-explore-your-sky/): British digital artist and interface designer Paul Neave makes applications, games, tools, toys, interactive art and installations.
- [NCGE 2011](https://gisetc.com/ncge-2011/): NCGE 2011 The NCGE 2011 Conference, “Going Green for Geography” will feature hands-on workshops, field trips, presentations, and exhibits that cover all areas of geography education with an emphasis on teaching and learning about human interaction with environmental systems and processes.
- [Apps We Love: Project Noah](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-project-noah/): Project Noah was launched out of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in early 2010.
- [Exploring the Physical Geography of the Pacific NW: Finding Latitude and Longitude on the Ground](https://gisetc.com/exploring-the-physical-geography-of-the-pacific-nw-finding-latitude-and-longitude-on-the-ground/): Finding Latitude and Longitude on the Ground You may have noticed but on many maps there are lines and borders on them that you can’t see or find when you are at these locations on the ground.
- [Exploring the Physical Geography of the Pacific NW: Hide and Seek](https://gisetc.com/exploring-the-physical-geography-of-the-pacific-nw-hide-and-seek/): Hide and Seek This is an easy quick activity to brush up on finding points someone else has already saved or points you had saved before.
- [Examining the Spatial Pattern of Travel Time To Major Cities](https://gisetc.com/examining-the-spatial-pattern-of-travel-time-to-major-cities/): This resource was pointed out to us by our friend, Joseph Kerski. The data in the article he recommended is downloadable and quite fascinating - enjoy!
- [Exploring Literature with Cool Mapping Tools](https://gisetc.com/exploring-literature-with-cool-mapping-tools/): Exploring Literature with Cool Geography Tools Presented by: Barbaree Duke NCGE 2011 Description: Join us as we explore the world of literature with our compass set on cool tools.
- [Got SWAG?](https://gisetc.com/got-swag/): Flair is a great way to motivate and excite your students! We are always developing fun & affordable swag for teachers, students and fun-loving professionals.
- [We have Buttons and Stickers and Caps...OH MY!](https://gisetc.com/we-have-swag/): We’re putting the FUN back in geospatial fundamentals!
- [NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude](https://gisetc.com/nova-lost-at-sea-the-search-for-longitude/): The search for longitude was a problem so complex that it challenged the best minds of its time for centuries.
- [Going Places in GPS: IN SPANISH](https://gisetc.com/going-places-in-gps-in-spanish/): After years of work with communities in Costa Rica, we have released our first title (our popular activity workbook, GOING PLACES IN GPS) in SPANISH!
- [Let’s Play: Central & South American Geography Games](https://gisetc.com/2119-2/): By using Sheppard Software’s learning games, you will gain a permanant mental map of South & Central America, its states, capitals, and geography.
- [Apps We Love: My Radar](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-my-radar/): Since GISetc is headquartered in \"tornado alley\" - we love our weather apps!
- [Esri Education User Conference Summer 2011](https://gisetc.com/esri-education-user-conference-summer-2011/): Esri Education User Conference July 9–12, 2011 in San Diego, CA Join your fellow GIS enthusiasts at the Esri Education User Conference.
- [Ed Community Web Mapping](https://gisetc.com/ed-community-web-mapping/): Ed Community Web Mapping A list of links to free online mapping tools from the ESRI GIS Education Community.
- [Houston Career Readiness Collaborative](https://gisetc.com/houston-career-readiness-collaborative/): Houston Career Readiness Collaborative Virtual Earths for Science Inquiry – an overview of GIS in education with a wealth of information exploring biodiversity, conservation, species mapping, physical and earth science mapping and more.
- [Greenhouse on Wheels](https://gisetc.com/greenhouse-on-wheels/): An old 18-foot truck is about to become a valuable resource for school children learning about sustainable gardening, thanks to two entrepreneurs from New York who are converting it into a mobile greenhouse.
- [DDP School Demographics Conference](https://gisetc.com/ddp-school-demographics-conference/): DDP School Demographics Conference GIS transforms students into 21st century learners while stimulating teachers to become highly qualified.
- [Bismarck 2011](https://gisetc.com/bismarck-2011/): click here for the registration forms for Bismarck 2011 Geospatial technologies are recognized as one of the three highest growth industries in the US today.
- [Apps We Love: WildLab Bird](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-wildlab-bird/): With funding from the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with HASTAC, the WildLab piloted a program in NYC schools that engaged learners in real scientific data collection.
- [Let's Play: Mexican Geography Games](https://gisetc.com/lets-play-mexican-geography-games-2/): By using Sheppard Software\'s learning games, you will gain a permanant mental map of Mexico, its states, capitals, and geography.
- [An Online Map Art Gallery](https://gisetc.com/an-online-map-art-gallery/): The Map Room is a blog that points to maps, map collections, map-related resources, and material about maps on the web.
- [Save BIG with BUNDLES](https://gisetc.com/save-big-with-bundles/): We have introduced product bundles into our shop to give you BIG savings on our GIS classroom essentials.
- [Ban on Bottled Water](https://gisetc.com/ban-on-bottled-water/): SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.
- [May 2011 Resource Broadcast](https://gisetc.com/may-2011-resource-broadcast/): We published our Spring Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our quarterly free resources and GeoSpatial news.
- [Apps We Love: Ultimate World Quiz](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-ultimate-world-quiz/): The Ultimate World Quiz makes learning fun and easy. Why buy multiple apps when you can have one that does it all?
- [Globe GENIE](https://gisetc.com/globe-genie/): Globe GENIE is somewhat random but pretty cool way to get students excited about other places in the world. The folks at MIT have done it again!
- [Satellites Spot Illegal Logging of Uncontacted Tribes’ Home](https://gisetc.com/satellites-spot-illegal-logging-of-uncontacted-tribes-home/): Some of the world’s most sophisticated technology is being used to protect indigenous people who’ve entirely avoided the industrial world.
- [Sarychev Volcano Eruption from the International Space Station](https://gisetc.com/sarychev-volcano-eruption-from-the-international-space-station/): A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano (Russia’s Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009.
- [Milky Way Galaxy Has Mirrorlike Symmetry](https://gisetc.com/milky-way-galaxy-has-mirrorlike-symmetry/): A new study suggests the Milky Way doesn’t need a makeover: It’s already just about perfect.
- [Disaster Response Map: U.S. Flooding](https://gisetc.com/disaster-response-map-u-s-flooding/): This map allows you to view continuously updated U.S. flooding information. You can see observed flooding locations as well as precipitation information.
- [Oceania Geography Games](https://gisetc.com/oceania-geography-games/): By using Sheppard Software\'s learning games, you will gain a permanant mental map of Oceania, its countries, capitals, and geography.
- [NEW Tweet Mapping Template](https://gisetc.com/new-tweet-mapping-template/): A new template has been added to the ArcGIS.com map viewer template gallery that allows you to quickly map tweets of your choosing.
- [Thinking Like a Map](https://gisetc.com/thinking-like-a-map/): Charting your course through a building can be disorienting, especially for the GPS-reliant.
- [Astronomers Create 3-D Map of 3-Billion-Year-Old Universe](https://gisetc.com/astronomers-create-3-d-map-of-3-billion-year-old-universe/): article by Dave Mosher - Using light from 14,000 distant yet powerful cosmic beacons, astronomers have pieced together the largest and most detailed 3-D map of the ancient universe.
- [Analyzing Change Over Time Using Topographic Maps and Imagery with GIS](https://gisetc.com/analyzing-change-over-time-using-topographic-maps-and-imagery-with-gis/): \"A principal aim of geospatial analysis is examining and understanding change over space and time.
- [Esri and DOI Introduce Landsat Data for the World](https://gisetc.com/esri-and-doi-introduce-landsat-data-for-the-world/): Working in close collaboration with the US Department of the Interior (DOI), Esri is pleased to announce the release of Landsat image services.
- [The Geospatial Revolution Project (Episode 4)](https://gisetc.com/the-geospatial-revolution-project-episode-4/): Geospatial information influences nearly everything.
- [An Important Face Behind GISetc](https://gisetc.com/an-important-face-behind-gisetc/): We at GISetc strive to provide interesting, compelling, fun, and useful geospatial content and resources for education as well as for the broader community.
- [April 2011 Resource Broadcast](https://gisetc.com/april-2011-resource-broadcast/): We published our Spring Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our quarterly free resources and GeoSpatial news.
- [Mapping the World with Facebook Connections](https://gisetc.com/mapping-the-world-with-facebook-connections/): The above map of the world, drawn by Facebook data structuring intern Paul Butler using connections between 10 million Facebook friends, is interesting enough in itself until you realize that all of the country borders are entirely drawn using Facebook friend connections too.
- [BioDiversity HotSpots](https://gisetc.com/biodiversity-hotspots/): The most remarkable places on Earth are also the most threatened.
- [Map Games: Africa](https://gisetc.com/map-games-africa/): Develop a mental map of Africa, its countries, capitals, and geography through these amazing games!
- [Put It In Perspective](https://gisetc.com/put-it-in-perspective/): Maybe this will help you put it all in perspective.
- [Earth Day & Environmental Education](https://gisetc.com/earth-day-environmental-education/): Happy Earth Day! Earth Day Network invites you to explore our award-winning Educators\' Network!
- [The Trash Vortex](https://gisetc.com/the-trash-vortex/): Follow the link to see the animated flow of trash with the ocean currents.
- [U.S.A. Census Bureau, QuickFacts](https://gisetc.com/u-s-a-census-bureau-quickfacts/): Look at the US Census Bureau\'s QUICK FACTS. Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography. Explore your state and cities!
- [Earthcache](https://gisetc.com/1590-2/): There are over 11,000 Earthcaches around the world.
- [Twinkie Maps - How far do you need to go?](https://gisetc.com/twinkie-maps-how-far-do-you-need-to-go/): Talk about motivation - visit the TWINKIE MAP! Choose a snack food - anything from an apple to a Reese\'s Peanut Butter Cup (yum).
- [INCREDIBLE STORIES FROM OUR WORLD](https://gisetc.com/incredible-stories-from-our-world/): Discover amazing human stories from around the world through television and radio clips from BBC programs such as Human Planet, Amazon with Bruce Parry and Tropic of Cancer.
- [Happy Earth Observation Day ! Celebrate the wonders of Remote sensing](https://gisetc.com/happy-earth-observation-day/): The AmericaView Consortium is pleased to announce Earth Observation Day 2011 (EO Day 2011).
- [Esri Elevation Profile Tool](https://gisetc.com/esri-elevation-profile-tool/): This free Elevation Profile hosted on the Esri site interface allows you to choose a tool from the tool box and draw a line anywhere on the surface of the globe, including the oceans!
- [Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection](https://gisetc.com/perry-castaneda-library-map-collection/): Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Online Maps of Current Interest Explore this extensive collection of maps categorized by current event and by general areas of interest.
- [Spring Resource Broadcast](https://gisetc.com/spring-resource-broadcast/): We published our Spring Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our quarterly free resources and GeoSpatial news.
- [#SnakeOnTheTown in the Classroom](https://gisetc.com/snakeonthetown-in-the-classroom/): View Larger Map Have you heard about the Bronx Zoo Cobra that escaped last weekend and is still at large? It has turned into a social media phenomena!
- [#SnakeOnTheTown](https://gisetc.com/1549-2/): I think the snake went on the Bronx Zoo\'s website to plan its escape route!
- [GAPMINDER](https://gisetc.com/gapminder/): Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
- [Fish Following a.k.a. Baby Groupers Adrift!](https://gisetc.com/fisl-following-a-k-a-baby-groupers-adrift/): The Baby Grouper Adrift!
- [Muturzikin: Putting Language on the Map](https://gisetc.com/muturzikin-putting-language-on-the-map/): Muturzikin has an interesting collection of maps that outline the indigenous languages and dialects and accents of the English language throughout the United States.
- [Our Amazing Planet and Amazing Tsunami Wave Maps](https://gisetc.com/our-amazing-planet-and-amazing-tsunami-wave-maps/): Our featured resource today is the website Our Amazing Planet. It explores the wonder and beauty of Earth through news, features and images.
- [Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami](https://gisetc.com/satellite-photos-of-japan-before-and-after-the-quake-and-tsunami/): So much data is coming in from the devastation in Japan. We had another link we wanted to share with you today.
- [Tools for Teaching about Earthquakes and Seismic Activity](https://gisetc.com/tools-for-teaching-about-earthquakes-and-seismic-activity/): With the tragedy in Japan last week, we wanted to highlight an invaluable online tool to help teach your students about seismic activity.
- [Google Crisis Response: 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami](https://gisetc.com/google-crisis-response-2011-japanese-earthquake-and-tsunami/): A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan at around 2:46pm on March 11 (JST) causing damage with blackouts, fire and tsunami.
- [FedEx: Delivering Information to a Changing World](https://gisetc.com/fedex-delivering-information-to-a-changing-world/): Want to blow your mind? Experience this INTERACTIVE cartography map. WOW FedEx, kudos.
- [Frazil Ice at Yosemite National Park](https://gisetc.com/frazil-ice-at-yosemite-national-park/): Summertime visitors to Yosemite National Park miss many of the unique events of winter and early spring.
- [Mapping a City\'s Smell](https://gisetc.com/mapping-a-citys-smell-3/): Chemical cartography is a fascinating new frontier in mapping.
- [Mapping a City\'s Smell](https://gisetc.com/mapping-a-citys-smell-2/): Chemical cartography is a fascinating new frontier in mapping.
- [Mapping a City\'s Smell](https://gisetc.com/mapping-a-citys-smell/): Chemical cartography is a fascinating new frontier in mapping.
- [Organized Crime on the Map](https://gisetc.com/mapping-organized-crime/): The current issue of Wired Magazine shared this fascinating map of the flow of organized crime around the globe.
- [NCGE 2011 Webinars for APHG Teachers](https://gisetc.com/ncge-2011-webinars-for-aphg-teachers/): Now in our 95th year, NCGE continues to both promote and celebrate geographic teaching and learning.
- [Say It With Buildings](https://gisetc.com/say-it-with-buildings/): Happy Valentines Day! We wanted to share the website GEO-Greeting, which can send any message you choose written in buildings from satellite images.
- [Knots, Lines & Curves: The Way Our Eyes Read Maps](https://gisetc.com/knots-lines-curves-the-way-our-eyes-read-maps/): We recently ran across this fascinating study on how our eyes read maps on the blog for EYE Magazine.
- [SNOWMAGEDDON 2011: How Crowdsourcing, Social Media and Mapping Made the Difference](https://gisetc.com/snowmageddon-2011-how-crowdsourcing-social-media-and-mapping-made-the-difference/): Area governments are doing their best to help their regions dig out of this snow storm. Call it Snowmageddon, call it the Blizzard of 2011.
- [Egypt Events Mapped by Social Media Protests](https://gisetc.com/egypt-events-mapped-by-social-media-protests/): A big thanks to our friends at ESRI for putting this fascinating map together.
- [Super Bowl Fan Map](https://gisetc.com/super-bowl-fan-map/): Cast your vote for who you want to win the Super Bowl on this fun, interactive map from ESRI!
- [Great Maps Available Through the CEC](https://gisetc.com/great-maps-available-through-the-cec/): The Commission for Environmental Cooperation facilitates collaboration and public participation to foster conservation, protection and enhancement of the North American environment for the benefit of present and future generations, in the context of increasing economic, trade, and social links among Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
- [Important GIS Data Portals and Resources](https://gisetc.com/1008-2/): Our friend Wing Cheung at Palomar College in Southern California sent us these resources.
- [Brisbane Flooding](https://gisetc.com/brisbane-flooding/): Roger and Anita Palmer of GISetc were at the Australian Geographic Teacher Association (AGTA) in Adelaide during the Brisbane flooding.
- [The Perils of Being Anti-Social](https://gisetc.com/the-perils-of-being-anti-social/): This article from Harvey Mackay was shared with us this week and we were so impressed with it we wanted to pass it along to you here.
- [Our work in Bahia Ballena](https://gisetc.com/our-work-in-bahia-ballena/): As we mentioned in our last blog highlighting the Participatory GIS vimeo, GISetc is working in the small rural community in southwestern Costa Rica of Bahia Ballena.
- [Feliz GIS Day!](https://gisetc.com/feliz-gis-day/): Sounds festive, don\'t you think?
- [Geography Awareness Week](https://gisetc.com/974-2/): Launched in 1987 by presidential proclamation, Geography Awareness Week is an annual opportunity for families and schools to engage in fun, educational experiences that draw attention to Geo-Literacy and the importance of geographic understanding in ensuring our nation\'s economic competitiveness, national security, environmental sustainability, and the livability of our communities in the 21st century.
- [NEW Carl Videos!](https://gisetc.com/new-carl-videos/): \"I\'m telling you Santa, we really need a better routing solution.\" Then we launched our W.W.C.S.
- [Localization, Participation & Communication](https://gisetc.com/localization-participation-communication/): As GISetc is working in the small community of Bahia Ballena, Osa, Costa Rica, this video is a rich source of information for working with a community to help them plan and to enable them to use mapping tools to solve community issues.
- [A Mapping Mistake](https://gisetc.com/a-mapping-mistake/): Google Maps and Google Earth is a wonderful tool that has brought mapping and geography back into the public eye in a big way.
- [ESRI Site License Expands Student Opportunities in Texas](https://gisetc.com/esri-site-license-expands-student-opportunities-in-texas/): The following press release was sent from ESRI November 9th: District Superintendent Impressed with ESRI\'s Vision for K-12 Education Redlands, California—The Coppell Independent School District (CISD) in Coppell, Texas, recently implemented a three-year Esri site license that will allow all its primary and secondary school students to learn geographic information system (GIS) software.
- [W.W.C.S.? The "What Will Carl Say?" Contest](https://gisetc.com/w-w-c-s-the-what-will-carl-say-contest-2/): We’re doing a fun series of holiday videos featuring Santa & Carl, the navigational elf. Tune in every week to GISetc TV.
- [GISetc & Bishop Dunne Students in Costa Rica](https://gisetc.com/gisetc-bishop-dunne-students-in-costa-rica/): This is the day one of the student Costa Rica field expedition led by Roger Palmer principle of GISetc and teacher of outdoor education at Bishop Dunne High School.
- [GeoTech College Fair](https://gisetc.com/geotech-college-fair/): As part of GeoTech we would like to have students visit with some of the colleges that offer great programs in science and technology.
- [Apps We Love: Life On Earth a.k.a. the First Digital Textbook](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-life-on-earth-a-k-a-the-first-digital-textbook/): E. O. Wilson’s Life on Earth is a new digital biology textbook for high school students now under development by the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.
- [GeoTech Speaker Series](https://gisetc.com/geotech-speaker-series/): This year we have two opportunities for our families, alumni, and friends to join us for the acclaimed GeoTech Speaker series.
- [SEVEN: How Will We Sustain a More Populated Planet?](https://gisetc.com/seven-how-will-we-sustain-a-more-populated-planet/): We\'re sharing a bonus SEVEN resource today! The USGS Uses Landsat data to track trends in key resources.
- [GeoTech Spotlight: Kobie Boykins, Engineer for the Mars Rover](https://gisetc.com/geotech-spotlight-kobie-boykins/): We are blessed to have not one but TWO amazing featured lecturers booked for GeoTech 2012! GeoTech is less than a month away!
- [Downloadable Graphic Novel: What is Geography?](https://gisetc.com/downloadable-graphic-novel-what-is-geography/): Looking for a new way to connect with your students?
- [Made from a Map: Home Is Where the HEART Is](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-home-is-where-the-heart-is/): We decided to do our \"Made from a Map\" feature a day early, since we wanted to share a heart inspired map project in honor of Valentines Day!
- [Geospatial Tools in Language Arts: Lesson 2](https://gisetc.com/geospatial-tools-in-language-arts-lesson-2/): Digital maps and online mapping tools are critical to understand authors mindsets, elements of plot and character development.
- [Giant National Geographic Traveling Map of Africa Coming to Dallas](https://gisetc.com/giant-national-geographic-traveling-map-of-africa-coming-to-dallas/): Students attending the GeoTech Safari hosted by Bishop Dunne will be exploring Africa in a big way — with the world’s largest map of the continent.
- [Apps We Love: Britannica Kids, Volcanoes](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-britannica-kids-volcanoes/): We\'re wrapping up our mini volcano week with a lava hot app.
- [Beautiful Destruction: 11 Gorgeous Geological Maps of Volcanoes](https://gisetc.com/beautiful-destruction-11-gorgeous-geological-maps-of-volcanoes/): We\'re having a volcanic theme this week in honor of our planet\'s lewest land mass (see yesterday\'s post).
- [New Volcanic Island in the Red Sea](https://gisetc.com/new-volcanic-island-in-the-red-sea/): NASA reports a new island is forming in the Red Sea. About 60 kilometers (40 miles) from the coast of Yemen, an undersea eruption began in mid-December 2011.
- [SEVEN: GAPMINDER for a Fact Based World View](https://gisetc.com/seven-gapminder-for-a-fact-based-world-view/): Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
- [Geospatial Tools in Language Arts: Lesson 1](https://gisetc.com/geospatial-tools-in-language-arts-lesson-1/): Digital maps and online mapping tools are critical to understand authors mindsets, elements of plot and character development.
- [Apps We Love: My Place History](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-my-place-history/): This powerful tool from ESRI allows you to achieve a greater understanding of how local environments affect health.
- [Maps Disputes Are Changing the Face of Texas\' Primaries](https://gisetc.com/maps-disputes-are-changing-the-face-of-texas-primaries-2/): Texas\' redistricting is getting controversial. The redrawing of the maps deliniating the the voter districts in Texas is being untangled by the U.S.
- [Health Landscape](https://gisetc.com/health-landscape/): 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.
- [January 2012 Resource Review](https://gisetc.com/3286-2/): We published our November Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun.
- [GIS Fun & Games: National Geographic Atlas Online Puzzles](https://gisetc.com/gis-fun-games-national-geographic-atlas-online-puzzles/): If you\'ve never done an online virtual jigsaw puzzle before, you\'re in for a real treat!
- [OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits](https://gisetc.com/openstreetmap-a-year-of-edits/): This video shows all edits made to the OpenStreetMap project in 2011.
- [Region 10 Social Studies Training January 2012](https://gisetc.com/region-10-social-studies-training-january-2012/): GISetc is in training sessions today at Region 10 ESC.
- [Apps We Love: Dragon Dictation](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-dragon-dictation/): This is a GREAT tool! If you are tired of typing on your tablet or touch device - you need to download Dragon immediately!
- [A Life Remembered: Dr. Kristi Alvarez](https://gisetc.com/a-life-remembered-dr-kristi-alvarez/): As many may know, Dr. Kristi Alvarez, of University of Redlands, was diagnosed with cancer early this fall.
- [Tagging of Pacific Predators](https://gisetc.com/tagging-of-pacific-predators/): 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.
- [Massive Solar Storm: January 2012](https://gisetc.com/massive-solar-storm-january-2012/): This image shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun\'s northeastern hemisphere this week.
- [HistoryPin](https://gisetc.com/historypin/): 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.
- [American Vice: Mapping the Seven Deadly Sins](https://gisetc.com/american-vice-mapping-the-seven-deadly-sins/): We\'re gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust).
- [Apps We Love: Offline Topo Maps](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-offline-topo-maps/): Offline Topo Maps helps you find your way, even when you aren\'t connected.
- [Climate Wizard](https://gisetc.com/climate-wizard/): With ClimateWizard you can view historic temperature and rainfall maps for anywhere in the world.
- [Aqueduct Atlas](https://gisetc.com/aqueduct-atlas/): Stress on water resources poses a threat to sustained business growth.
- [Made from a Map: DIY Map Display](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-diy-map-display/): Looking for a clever way to display a favorite or locally focused map? Try this - use different sizes of embroidery hoops to \"frame\" your maps.
- [Apps We Love: Quake Feed](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-quake-feed/): This is the ultimate in FREE earthquake apps!
- [The BOOST Portal: Exploring Kenya](https://gisetc.com/the-boost-portal-exploring-kenya/): The BOOST portal features data rich maps of Kenya. Highly specialized and perfect for an AP Geography class to explore.
- [Walkabout through Time](https://gisetc.com/walkabout-through-time/): Explore a rich variety of fossil data with maps and trace the ecosystem as it collapses and rises over time with Walkabout through Time from the Carnegie Institute for Science.
- [Torrential Rain in Brazil](https://gisetc.com/torrential-rain-in-brazil/): Torrential rain inundated southeastern Brazil in early January 2012, causing severe damage in multiple states.
- [A Year of Resources in Review 2011](https://gisetc.com/a-year-of-resources-in-review-2011/): We published our \"Year of Resources in Review\" today for 2011, summarizing our free resources, product releases and favorite apps from the past year.
- [SEVEN: A Special Year-Long Series on Population from National Geographic Magazine](https://gisetc.com/seven-a-special-year-long-series-on-population-from-national-geographic-magazine/): Population is a complicated topic.
- [Apps We Love: GeoMaster](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-geomaster/): \"GeoMaster makes geography fun - yes, really\" - TUAW.com \"I looked forever for a good map quiz game and this one is easily the best out there.\" Discover the world the easy way with this unique learning and educational tool.
- [Apps We Love: Lemon](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-lemon/): If you need a great system to track your paper and electronic receipts, then you should check out the Lemon app for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
- [Apps We Love: Pocket Universe](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-pocket-universe/): Have you ever looked up at the night sky, and wondered what exactly you were looking at?
- [Ancient Dry Spells, Megadroughts and the Future of Food](https://gisetc.com/ancient-dry-spells-megadroughts-and-the-future-of-food/): (from NASA) - As parts of Central America and the U.S.
- [How to Create GeoTagged QR Codes with qrd.by](https://gisetc.com/how-to-create-geotagged-qr-codes-with-qrd-by/): Now that you have downloaded our favorite QR app, you need to start generating some geographical QR codes!
- [Apps We Love: I-Nigma QR Reader](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-i-nigma-qr-reader/): If you\'ve seen any of our printed materials, or have looked at our blog archives lately, you\'ll know we\'re all about QR codes!
- [SEVEN: Human Population Reaches a Milestone](https://gisetc.com/seven-human-population-reaches-a-milestone/): Despite a general decline in birth rates, world population increases by some 83 million people each year.
- [Podcast: More Accurate Elevations from GPS](https://gisetc.com/podcast-more-accurate-elevations-from-gps/): We discovered a fascinating podcast with NOAA Chief Geodesist Dru Smith, learning how scientists are using measurements of gravity to refine a complex mathematical model of the Earth’s shape, known as the geoid.
- [Texas Drought Visible in New National Groundwater Maps](https://gisetc.com/texas-drought-visible-in-new-national-groundwater-maps/): ScienceDaily (Nov.
- [Apps We Love: 3D Sun](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-3d-sun/): No seasonal affective disorder for us! Now you can carry your own personal sun with you on your iPhone, iPod or iPad with our featured app this week, 3D Sun!
- [November 2011 Resource Broadcast](https://gisetc.com/2636-2/): We published our November Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun.
- [Just for Fun: U.S. Map Printable Coloring Pages](https://gisetc.com/just-for-fun-u-s-map-printable-coloring-pages/): Download all the pages and create your own coloring book!
- [Interactive Map of Urban Growth](https://gisetc.com/interactive-map-of-urban-growth/): This interactive map from the BBC showing urban growth across the planet uses the Gall-Peters projection.
- [Countdown to Costa Rica 2012: Itinerary](https://gisetc.com/countdown-to-costa-rica-2012-itinerary-sneak-peek/): We are eager to invite teachers of all levels to build their technology skills and experience sustainable development in Costa Rica.
- [Apps We Love: Square](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-square/): If you stopped by our booth and bought something from us over the last year, you\'ve seen a square unit. We LOVE square! It can change the way you do business!
- [Calling AP Teachers: Submissions Wanted](https://gisetc.com/calling-ap-teachers-submissions-wanted/): AP Teachers: Submit your lesson plans to The Geography Teacher for publication!
- [Free Online Class: Teaching with GIS](https://gisetc.com/free-online-class-teaching-with-gis/): Teaching with GIS: Introduction to Using GIS in the Classroom from ESRI Training List price: Free/Length: 3 hours Today\'s students embrace technology outside the classroom, and, when used effectively, technology is an excellent tool to engage students inside the classroom as well.
- [SWAG Spotlight: Wine and Gift Labels](https://gisetc.com/swag-spotlight-wine-and-gift-labels/): We are excited to introduce a new product in our SWAG shop - wine & gift labels! These are the coolest sticker sheets ever, with tons of creative uses.
- [Apps We Love: VideoScience](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-videoscience/): VideoScience is an app with agrowing library of over 80 hands-on Science lessons that are great for home and the classroom.
- [GeoTech Spotlight: Speaker, Mireya Mayor](https://gisetc.com/geotech-spotlight-speaker-mireya-mayor/): We are blessed to have not one but TWO amazing featured lecturers booked for GeoTech 2012!
- [Made From a Map: Get Puzzled](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-get-puzzled/): Here is a wonderful (and easy - we love easy!) map project!
- [Apps We Love: wikiHOOD](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-wikihood/): What are the most important sights to see around me? What do others find interesting here? Is there a museum, a castle, a park or church nearby?
- [Explore with EXPLORE!](https://gisetc.com/explore-with-explore/): Explore is a multimedia organization that documents leaders around the world who have devoted their lives to extraordinary causes.
- [Call for Presentations for EdUC: due January 2013](https://gisetc.com/call-for-presentations-for-educ-due-january-2013/): Share Your Knowledge at the Esri Education Conference, the Ultimate Event for GIS Education!
- [Costa Rica Field Based GIS Training 2012: Sustainable Development](https://gisetc.com/costa-rica-field-based-gis-training-2012-sustainable-development/): We are eager to invite teachers of all levels to build their technology skills and experience sustainable development in Costa Rica.
- [SEVEN: Seven Billion People = Seven Billion Actions from UNESCO](https://gisetc.com/2417-2/): Our first featured resource in our SEVEN program is the 7 billion actions program from UNESCO.
- [Introducing: SEVEN](https://gisetc.com/introducing-seven/): 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.
- [Apps We Love: Folds and Faults](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-folds-and-faults/): Folds and Faults provides an illustrated overview of two significant topics in geology: folds and faults.
- [Healthy Habitats Grants Awarded](https://gisetc.com/healthy-habitats-grants-awarded/): Service Learning Texas awarded 9 new grants in October for this innovative program, which is a partnership with Encana Oil & Gas (USA), Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
- [20 Minute GIS for ArcGIS Online Portal](https://gisetc.com/20-minute-gis-for-arcgis-online-portal/): Look what we did! We at GISetc realize that geospatial technologies are moving targets. So here’s the latest to keep you on target and up to date!
- [National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)](https://gisetc.com/national-historical-geographic-information-system-nhgis/): The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010.
- [7 Billion!](https://gisetc.com/7-billion/): The Earth\'s human population has surpassed the seven billion mark.
- [October 2011 Resource Broadcast](https://gisetc.com/2428-2/): We published our October Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun.
- [Scary Maps! A Fun Collection for Halloween](https://gisetc.com/scarp-maps-a-fun-collection-for-halloween/): Happy Halloween from GISetc! Click on the map titles to explore all of our scary & fun map links!
- [Cartography & Indiana Jones](https://gisetc.com/cartography-indiana-jones/): Matt Busch created the ultimate illustrated Indiana Jones World Map!
- [Fourth Annual Conference of GIS Educators in Maine](https://gisetc.com/fourth-annual-conference-of-gis-educators-in-maine/): The Fourth Annual Conference of GIS Educators in Maine is coming up on November 18th from 9:30 to 4:30 at the Augusta Civic Center. Registration is now open.
- [GeoTech 2012: from Madagascar to Mars](https://gisetc.com/geotech-2012-from-madagascar-to-mars/): GeoTech allows teachers to explore the most cutting edge technologies available in education today.
- [Arctic Sea Ice Continues Decline](https://gisetc.com/arctic-sea-ice-continues-decline/): Last month the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record.
- [Apps We Love: wikiHOW Survival Guide](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-wikihow-survival-guide/): 75,000+ how-to articles from wikiHow, the wiki how-to manual. Plus an emergency survival kit stored for offline use.
- [Japan Releases Improved Topographic Map of Earth](https://gisetc.com/japan-releases-improved-topographic-map-of-earth/): NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth this month, produced with detailed measurements from NASA\'s Terra spacecraft.
- [Apps We Love: SkySafari 3](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-sky-safari-3/): The basic version of SkySafari 3 shows you 120,000 stars, plus 220 of the best-known star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the sky.
- [Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching, 2011](https://gisetc.com/conference-for-the-advancement-of-science-teaching-2011/): It is the mission of the Science Teachers Association of Texas (STAT) to build a communitydedicated to advancing science teaching and learning.
- [Made From a Map: It\'s a Bust!](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-its-a-bust-3/): We found this incredible example of map art through Pinterest. I wish it was credited, kuddos to the anonymous creator who shared their project online!
- [Made From a Map: It\'s a Bust!](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-its-a-bust-2/): We found this incredible example of map art through Pinterest. I wish it was credited, kuddos to the anonymous creator who shared their project online!
- [Made From a Map: It\'s a Bust!](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-its-a-bust/): We found this incredible example of map art through Pinterest. I wish it was credited, kuddos to the anonymous creator who shared their project online!
- [Interactive Map: A History of Wildfires in California](https://gisetc.com/interactive-map-a-history-of-wildfires-in-california/): Fire crews battle thousands of wildfires in California every year. This map shows areas burned in over 7,000 of the largest wildfires between 1950 and 2010.
- [Submarine Cable Map](https://gisetc.com/submarine-cable-map/): The Submarine Cable Map is a free resource from TeleGeography.
- [Apps We Love: Oh Ranger!](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-oh-ranger/): \"Oh, Ranger! ParkFinder is great for finding your next destination while you’re in transit or on the trail. Even if it weren’t free, Oh, Ranger!
- [Ultimate Nerd Guide To New York City](https://gisetc.com/ultimate-nerd-guide-to-new-york-city/): This Friday we wanted to share a fun map to kick off your weekend! This is the ultimate nerd guide to New York City!
- [Climate Change Threatens Health](https://gisetc.com/climate-change-threatens-health/): Climate change is one of the most serious public health threats facing the nation, but few people are aware of how it can affect them.
- [Apps We Love: Geo Walk HD - 3D World Fact Book](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-geo-walk-hd-3d-world-fact-book/): Looking for a new educational app? Or planning on spending time with your kids to explore how amazing our world is?
- [September 2011 Resource Review](https://gisetc.com/september-2011-resource-review/): We published our October Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun.
- [An Animated History of European Map Making](https://gisetc.com/an-animated-history-of-european-map-making/): BBC History created an animated history of European map making that is a great visual overview of how the look of maps have changed throughout the ages.
- [The Essentials: A Yoga & Surf Retreat - $100 Discount Offer](https://gisetc.com/the-essentials-a-yoga-surf-retreat-100-discount-offer/): We admire and support Bodhi Surf, a surfing school where you can expect to learn a lot more than how to stand up on a surfboard.
- [TCEA Educator Awards and Scholarships](https://gisetc.com/tcea-educator-awards-and-scholarships/): There are more than 360,000 professional educators in Texas.Only eight will receive TCEA educator awards. One of them could be you or a colleague of yours!
- [MapTube](https://gisetc.com/maptube/): MapTube is a free resource for viewing, sharing, mixing and mashing maps online.
- [Lesson Plan: Mapping - Memory, Motion and Contemporary Art](https://gisetc.com/lesson-plan-mapping-memory-motion-and-contemporary-art/): This innovative lesson plan was designed for students who visited a mapping exhibit at the Katonah Museum of Art earlier this year.
- [Let’s Play: Asia Geography Games](https://gisetc.com/lets-play-asia-geography-games/): By using Sheppard Software’s learning games, you will gain a permanant mental map of Asia, its countries, capitals, and geography.
- [Travel Time to Major Cities: A Map of Global Accessibility](https://gisetc.com/travel-time-to-major-cities-a-map-of-global-accessibility/): The world is shrinking. Cheap flights, large scale commercial shipping and expanding road networks all Wilderness?
- [Apps We Love: SkyView](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-skyview/): Have you ever wondered where the constellations are? How about the planets? Or where the sun and the moon will be at certain times of the day?
- [Interactive U.S. Immigration Map](https://gisetc.com/interactive-u-s-immigration-map/): In 2009, the New York Times published a wonderful interactive map of immigration to the U.S. from 1880 to 2000.
- [Made From a Map: Window Shade Tutorial](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-window-shade-tutorial/): We\'re adding a touch of whimsy sprinkled into our geo resources & are going to feature one project (or idea) each month with something \"made from maps\" for you to enjoy.
- [Let’s Play: European Geography Games](https://gisetc.com/lets-play-european-geography-games/): By using Sheppard Software’s learning games, you will gain a permanant mental map of Europe, its countries, capitals, and geography.
- [The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture](https://gisetc.com/the-invisible-borders-that-define-american-culture/): This excerpt is taken from an excellent article by Samuel Arbesman, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation and a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
- [Apps We Love: National Park Finder by National Geographic](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-national-park-finder-by-national-geographic/): National Geographic presents a new, beautiful, and interactive guide to the national parks with a new app for iPhone.
- [Moving Wind Map](https://gisetc.com/moving-wind-map/): Two Google computer scientists have developed a stunning wind visualization for the contiguous US that uses real time data.
- [NASA Image Gallery Highlights Earth\'s Changing Face](https://gisetc.com/nasa-image-gallery-highlights-earths-changing-face-2/): NASA\'s Global Climate Change website has unveiled a new version of its popular image gallery, \"State of Flux.\" The gallery presents stunning images, mostly from space, of our ever-changing planet, chronicling changes taking place over time periods ranging from days to centuries.
- [Sizing Up the Potential for Geothermal Energy in Texas](https://gisetc.com/sizing-up-the-potential-for-geothermal-energy-in-texas/): The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is in the midst of awarding $360 million in federal stimulus grants for research in this area.
- [Map Calculator: Save the Rain](https://gisetc.com/map-calculator-save-the-rain/): A very good Map Mashup that calculates the potential yearly yield in corn, soy beans, rice and wheat by figuring out the yield of the rainfall you can capture from your roof.
- [Apps We Love: Instead](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-instead/): Giving money to charity is something we always have on our to-do list, but finding the extra money and remembering to actually do it is another thing.
- [Be Prepared: Where and How to See the Eclipse](https://gisetc.com/be-prepared-where-and-how-to-see-the-eclipse/): Eclipse-chasers have been known to plan their expeditions months or even years in advance, but if you can get to the western United States, there\'s still plenty of time to plan your party for this month\'s solar eclipse.
- [NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections](https://gisetc.com/nypl-turns-to-the-crowd-to-develop-digital-collections/): Crowdsourcing projects have one thing in common: they harness the power of large, undefined groups to accomplish specific tasks.
- [Made from a Map: Maps on Your Nails!](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-maps-on-your-nails/): Ok, yes -this is kind of a girly post. But in our quest for outrageous map art and fun map art projects we ran across these nifty nails on tumblr.
- [Perpetual Ocean](https://gisetc.com/perpetual-ocean/): NASA created these visualizations to show ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007.
- [Apps We Love: EarthObserver](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-earthobserver/): Explore your planet as never before with the mobility of EarthObserver. Use your fingertips to travel through terrestrial landscapes and across the ocean floor.
- [EVERYTHING to Scale](https://gisetc.com/everything-to-scale/): This website, Scale of the Universe, is TONS of fun to browse.
- [The Worst Places to Be a Woman](https://gisetc.com/the-worst-places-to-be-a-woman/): Explore a collection of maps where the war on women is still being fought.
- ['Huge' Water Resource Exists Under Africa](https://gisetc.com/huge-water-resource-exists-under-africa-2/): Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.
- [Peace, Love & Maps](https://gisetc.com/peace-love-maps/): We were delighted to view this inspirational video from our friend, Joseph Kerski from ESRI. We are all map lovers at heart.
- [SEVEN: Neighborhood Population Statistics](https://gisetc.com/seven-neighborhood-population-statistics/): The Tapestry Segmentation System from ESRI divides U.S.
- [Apps We Love: Locavore](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-locavore/): Talk about \"Livin\' La Vida Loca\"! There\'s nothing crazy about eating food grown locally and keeping your carbon footprint petite.
- [New: Adapted Lessons for ArcGIS Online!](https://gisetc.com/new-adapted-lessons-for-arcgis-online/): If you loved our original 20 Minute GIS book, then you\'ll be excited about our latest development...20 Minute GIS for Young Explorers: Adapted Lessons for ArcGIS Explorer Online!
- [Japanese Soccer Ball Lost During Tsunami Washes Up in Alaska](https://gisetc.com/japanese-soccer-ball-lost-during-tsunami-washes-up-in-alaska/): More than a year and thousands of miles later, a soccer ball washed away during the Japan tsunami has turned up on a remote Alaskan island and eventually could be headed back to the Japanese school grounds it originally came from.
- [Mapping the Pacific Garbage Patch & Ocean Currents](https://gisetc.com/mapping-the-pacific-garbage-patch-ocean-currents/): Garbage is circling the ocean and is affecting all the eco systems in its path.
- [Welcome to Cougar\'s Corner!](https://gisetc.com/welcome-to-cougars-corner-3/): Meet Cougar, our cat, the official mascot of GISetc.
- [Welcome to Cougar\'s Corner!](https://gisetc.com/welcome-to-cougars-corner-2/): Meet Cougar, our cat, the official mascot of GISetc.
- [Welcome to Cougar\'s Corner!](https://gisetc.com/welcome-to-cougars-corner/): Meet Cougar, our cat, the official mascot of GISetc.
- [Explore Access to Health Care in the U.S.](https://gisetc.com/explore-access-to-health-care-in-the-u-s/): Access to basic health care is inadequate in many parts of the U.S.
- [April 2012 Resource Review](https://gisetc.com/april-2012-resource-review/): We published our April Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun.
- [GIS & FIELD TOOLS TRAINING: Bismarck 2012](https://gisetc.com/gis-field-tools-training-bismarck-2012/): Click here for printable registration form for Bismarck 2012 Geospatial technologies are recognized as one of the three highest growth industries in the US today.
- [Just for Fun: Quiz Your Noodle - VOLCANOES](https://gisetc.com/just-for-fun-quiz-your-noodle-volcanoes/): See how much you know about the explosive mountains known as volcanoes with this fun online game from National Geographic.
- [Apps We Love: PaperKarma](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-paperkarma/): Whether it\'s catalogs, offers for credit cards or advertisements for Carpet Cleaners, unsolicited mail adds up to a big waste of paper, trees and resources!
- [Growth Cities Around the World](https://gisetc.com/growth-cities-around-the-world/): Son fut sur: il cialis quotidien forum couvents et où plus http://www.kustarovci.sk/spironolactone-teva-50-effets-indesirables intérêts, utilement.
- [Time Zones](https://gisetc.com/time-zones/): Time zones sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected as they are by political, geographical and social changes in the real world.
- [Mapping Human Migration](https://gisetc.com/mapping-human-migration/): The Spencer Wells Genographic Project is seeks to chart new knowledge about the migratory history of the human species by using sophisticated laboratory and computer analysis of DNA contributed by hundreds of thousands of people from around the world.
- [Earth Day Feature: Protecting Our Oceans, Part Two](https://gisetc.com/3315-2/): We hope you had a pleasant and fulfilling Earth Day! Today we revisit our planet\'s oceans. You will remember Sylvia Earle\'s TED Talk we featured last Friday.
- [Happy Earth Day](https://gisetc.com/happy-earth-day/): Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, we wanted to share these two videos of our beautiful planet. Enjoy!
- [Happy National Parks Week!](https://gisetc.com/happy-national-parks-week/): National Park Week is here! From April 21st through the 29th you can get into any national park for free.
- [Earth Day Feature: Protecting Our Oceans, Part One](https://gisetc.com/earth-day-feature-protecting-our-oceans-part-one/): This Earth Day, we are shifting our attention to the oceans - the largest and most vital part of our Earth.
- [Apps We Love: Good Guide](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-good-guide/): We are switching up our blog schedule a bit so we can run a special two-part feature for Earth Day, which is this Sunday.
- [Mapping Social Landscapes](https://gisetc.com/mapping-social-landscapes/): PGIS and PPGIS practitioners facilitate the identification of human/landscape relationships - both actual and perceptual.
- [Dramatic Solar Flare Video](https://gisetc.com/dramatic-solar-flare-video/): An incredibly stunning solar flare erupted from the sun’s surface, throwing charged particles and searing plasma millions of miles out into space on Apr.
- [Made Into A Map: Moustache Madness!](https://gisetc.com/made-into-a-map-moustache-madness/): Usually we feature one project a month that shows something fun to make from a map.
- [Apps We Love: NASA Space Weather Viewer](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-nasa-space-weather-viewer/): The NASA Space Weather Media Viewer features near-real-time imagery from a wide variety of NASA missions, as well as video interviews with prominent scientists about the causes of space phenomena and NASA-created visualizations.
- [March 2012 Hottest on Record](https://gisetc.com/march-2012-hottest-on-record/): According to NOAA scientists at the National Climatic Data Center, record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the contiguous United States, a record that dates back to 1895.
- [Interactive Online Historical Atlas](https://gisetc.com/interactive-online-historical-atlas/): Visit this phenomenal interactive historic atlas that allows you to browse geographic borders through time with little tidbits sprinkled throughout like a panaramio.
- [Rediscover African Geographies](https://gisetc.com/3349-2/): From one of the earliest depictions of the continent to the colonial scramble for land, these maps reveal a great deal about the people who have lived there through the centuries.
- [Mapping Diabetes by Economic Status](https://gisetc.com/mapping-diabetes-by-economic-status/): Those with low socioeconomic status have poorer health than other persons, and are less likely to have adequate access to care or to receive high-quality clinical and prevention care services.
- [SEVEN: Mapping Our World](https://gisetc.com/seven-mapping-our-world/): Mapping Our World & Analyzing Our World both contain comprehensive lessons on population that can help you explore the 7 billion phenomenon in your classroom.
- [Apps We Love: Moon Phase](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-moon-phase/): MoonPhase for both iPhone and iPad is your guide to all sorts of moon info! And a little bit of sun info too. All presented in a beautiful, easy to use format.
- [March 2012 Resource Broadcast](https://gisetc.com/march-2012-resource-broadcast/): We published our November Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun.
- [Watch the Moon Evolve in Three Minutes](https://gisetc.com/watch-the-moon-evolve-in-three-minutes/): NASA\'s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has traced the moon\'s early history as well as the latest trash left behind by moonwalkers, and now the team behind the mission has created a video smashing 4.5 billion years of the moon\'s existence into less than three minutes.
- [MOON-ing Over Seismic Activity](https://gisetc.com/moon-ing-over-seismic-activity/): The standard picture of the moon is of a long-dead object, geologically speaking.
- [National AfterSchool Association Conference 2012](https://gisetc.com/national-afterschool-association-conference-2012/): The 2012 NAA Convention The National AfterSchool Association’s 24th annual national convention will bring afterschool professionals together for 3 days of the most comprehensive professional development opportunities available for afterschool professionals anywhere in the United States.
- [Moon Magnetism](https://gisetc.com/moon-magnetism/): Image courtesy Science/AAAS - The moon\'s magnetic rocks are pictured to the left in dark red.
- [Match Your Major to a Career Path](https://gisetc.com/match-your-major-to-a-career-path/): We always get questions from teachers and students on matching career paths with majors, so when we ran across this great career matching tool from ESRI, we knew we had to share!
- [A World of Titles from ESRI Press](https://gisetc.com/a-world-of-titles-from-esri-press/): Now you can order all the titles from A-Z from ESRI Press through GISetc!
- [Apps We Love: AutoStitch Panorama](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-autostitch-panorama/): Have you ever wanted to capture a wider view in a photo? Do you sometimes wish you had a better camera on your iPhone or iPod Touch?
- [GeoFun: LEGO Science!](https://gisetc.com/geofun-lego-science/): There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket.
- [Time Lapse Star Scape Video](https://gisetc.com/time-lapse-star-scape-video/): The night sky seems unchanging to the naked eye, but beauty is hidden beyond the limits of unaided human perception.
- [Ten Years of Images from Space](https://gisetc.com/ten-years-of-images-from-space/): Ten years ago this March, the European Space Agency launched an 8-ton satellite called Envisat that would deliver back to Earth some of the most beautiful images of our planet taken from space.
- [LiDAR Mapping and Archaeology](https://gisetc.com/lidar-mapping-and-archaeology/): “Just like the advent of radiocarbon dating, LiDAR will have the same impact” proclaimed archaeologist Chris Fisher.
- [Apps We Love: Tornado Chaser](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-tornado-chaser/): Learn how to track and read a storm like the pros! Be an (armchair) storm chasing meteorologist!
- [A Link Between Tornadoes and Seismic Activity](https://gisetc.com/a-link-between-tornadoes-and-seismic-activity/): An Indiana University geophysical experiment detected unusual seismic signals associated with tornadoes that recently struck regions across the Midwest - information that may have value for meteorologists studying the atmospheric activity that precedes tornado disasters.
- [GIS Analyst Gets Listed as a "Low Stress Career Option"](https://gisetc.com/gis-analyst-gets-listed-as-a-low-stress-career-option-2/): Recently Yahoo wrote an article touting the top five low stress careers, and geographic information systems analyst made the list.
- [STEM Curriculum](https://gisetc.com/stem-curriculum/): Here is a link to an amazing collection of over a dozen of free lessons from STEM: the National Center for Rural Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Outreach!
- [Tornadoes: Spring 2012](https://gisetc.com/tornadoes-spring-2012/): It’s a common early-spring phenomenon: Cold, dry air from Canada meets warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. The result: massive, tornado-spawning storms.
- [A Little St. Paddy\'s Day Mapping](https://gisetc.com/a-little-st-paddys-day-mapping-2/): Celebrate St. Patrick\'s Day with this Ireland map depicting birth surnames by county from an 1890 census.
- [Made from a Map: A GLOBAL Clock](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-a-global-clock/): This funky globe clock is sure to wow when understatement just won\'t do.
- [How Humans Are Reshaping the Earth](https://gisetc.com/how-humans-are-reshaping-the-earth/): Humans are increasingly transforming Earth’s surface—through direct activities such as farming, mining, and building, and indirectly by altering its climate.
- [What If? Mapping Nuclear Fallout](https://gisetc.com/what-if-mapping-nuclear-fallout/): One year after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the nuclear industry is still grappling with how to handle the risks that come with extreme natural disasters.
- [One Year Later: Tsunami Pictures Then and Now](https://gisetc.com/one-year-later-tsunami-pictures-then-and-now/): The people of Japan paused for a moment of silence to mark the one-year anniversary of a powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami that killed almost 19,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of others homeless.
- [Apps We Love: Flickr Photo Map](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-flickr-photo-map/): Explore your world like never before. See photos from anywhere on Earth. Scan the sands of the Sahara or island hop in the Caribbean, go anywhere!
- [Ocean Acidification Reaches an All Time High](https://gisetc.com/3244-2/): Some like to point to cycles when dismissing climate change, brushing off warming as simply being the thing that happens right before cooling.
- [SEVEN: USA Population Portrait](https://gisetc.com/seven-usa-population-portrait/): Explore US population maps from ArcGIS Online by ESRI help you explore and learn more about where you live.
- [The Geography of Your Pencil](https://gisetc.com/the-geography-of-your-pencil/): Have your students map the origins of their pencils in this innovative and complete classroom activity from National Geographic!
- [What Happens In Vegas Sprawls Across the Desert](https://gisetc.com/what-happens-in-vegas-sprawls-across-the-desert/): What sprawls in Vegas doesn\'t stay in Vegas.
- [Apps We Love: Trails](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-trails/): Are you looking for the perfect hiking trail? Do you need a virtual compass to help navigate directions?
- [Around the World in 365 Calories](https://gisetc.com/around-the-world-in-365-calories/): Recently, over a healthy snack, some folks from ESRI wondered: Just where did their food come from? And how far did it travel to get to them?
- [Geotech Presentation: Mapping Our World](https://gisetc.com/geotech-presentation-mapping-our-world/): Barbaree Duke did a presentation at GeoTech 2012, called Mapping Our World. The description: GIS is a powerful tool to visualize data and look for patterns.
- [February 2012 Resource Review](https://gisetc.com/february-2012-resource-review/): We published our November Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun.
- [GeoFun: Copycat Quiz](https://gisetc.com/geofun-copycat-quiz/): Think of this as the SIMON of geography. National Geographic created this addictive geography game.
- [NASA Sees Repeating La Niña Hitting Its Peak](https://gisetc.com/nasa-sees-repeating-la-nina-hitting-its-peak/): La Niña, \"the diva of drought,\" is peaking, increasing the odds that the Pacific Northwest will have more stormy weather this winter and spring, while the southwestern and southern United States will be dry.
- [Geospatial Tools in Language Arts: Lesson 4](https://gisetc.com/geospatial-tools-in-language-arts-lesson-4/): Digital maps and online mapping tools are critical to understand authors mindsets, elements of plot and character development.
- [GeoTech Presenter Highlight: Brad Baker](https://gisetc.com/geotech-presenter-highlight-brad-baker/): Brad Baker trains the next generation of GIS practitioners.
- [GeoTech Presenter Highlight: Dr. Paul Nagel](https://gisetc.com/geotech-presenter-highlight-dr-paul-nagel/): Dr. Paul Nagel holds a bachelor\'s degree in history from the University of Minnesota, MA from the University of Guam, and Ph.D.
- [GeoTech Presenter Highlight: Hannah Moots](https://gisetc.com/geotech-presenter-highlight-hannah-moots/): Hannah Moots studied anthropology at the University of Chicago, focusing on Africa, conducting research and excavation in Niger.
- [GeoTech Presenter Highlight: the ePUBLISHING track](https://gisetc.com/geotech-presenter-highlight-the-epublishing-track/): Three of the giants in ePublishing are coming out to GeoTech to bring us all up to speed in the latest advancements in eBooks - on creating them and implementing them in your classroom.
- [GeoTech Presenter Highlight: the ROBOTICS track](https://gisetc.com/geotech-presenter-highlight-the-robotics-track/): Robotics is one of the major themes running through GeoTech this year! GeoTech is next week, but there\'s still time to register!
- [GeoTech Presenter Highlight: Gary Lewis and Davida Beuhler a.k.a. Spending a Day with the GSA](https://gisetc.com/geotech-presenter-highlight-gary-lewis-and-davida-beuhler-a-k-a-spending-a-day-with-the-gsa/): We are so thrilled to have Gary Lewis and Davida Beuhler from the Geological Society of America presenting at GeoTech this year!
- [Full GeoTech Schedules and Descriptions Released](https://gisetc.com/full-geotech-schedules-and-descriptions-released/): We have been working hard to finalize the line up for GeoTech, and are thrilled to release the full schedules for the event!
- [Apps We Love: NASA](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-nasa/): After all the NASA talk this week, we wanted to feature NASA\'s official app!
- [GeoTech Speaker Spotlight: Kip Petroff](https://gisetc.com/geotech-speaker-spotlight-kip-petroff/): Kip Petroff is a recognized expert in Fen-Phen litigation and has been featured in print and television media around the country.
- [GeoTech Speaker Spotlight: Bert Shipp](https://gisetc.com/geotech-speaker-spotlight-bert-shipp/): As the focus of local news began to shift from radio and newspapers to television in the 1950s, Bert Shipp made a similar transition, leaving the Dallas Times Herald to work as a reporter for WBAP Channel 5.
- [GeoTech Speaker Spotlight: Brett Shipp](https://gisetc.com/geotech-speaker-spotlight-brett-shipp/): Brett has worked as an investigative reporter at WFAA-TV since 1995.
- [GeoTech Speaker Spotlight: Carlton Stowers](https://gisetc.com/geotech-speaker-spotlight-carlton-stowers/): Author/journalist Carlton Stowers\' books include bestsellers TO THE LAST BREATH and CARELESS WHISPERS, both winners of the Mystery Writers of America\'s Edgar Allen Poe Award as the Best Fact Crime Book of the Year, INNOCENCE LOST, which was nominated for a Pulitzer, and his autobiographical SINS OF THE SON.
- [GRAIL Satellite’s First Video of the Far Side of the Moon](https://gisetc.com/grail-satellites-first-video-of-the-far-side-of-the-moon/): This 30-second clip was captured by one of NASA’s twin GRAIL satellites on Jan. 19, the first movie taken of the moon’s far side by the mission.
- [Region 7 Social Studies Training: February 2012](https://gisetc.com/region-7-social-studies-training-february-2012/): GISetc is in training sessions today at Region 7 ESC.
- [Spectacular High-Res Image of Earth: The Other Side](https://gisetc.com/spectacular-high-res-image-of-earth-the-other-side/): This month, NASA released its 2012 version of the famous “Blue Marble” image.
- [GeoTech Safari!](https://gisetc.com/geotech-safari/): African Exploration, Amazonian Rainforests and a River and Rocks Tour right on school grounds - Bishop Dunne will host our own GeoTech Safari!
- [How NASA Makes Those Incredible High-Res Images of Earth](https://gisetc.com/how-nasa-makes-those-incredible-high-res-images-of-earth/): In recent weeks, a pair of high-resolution images of the Earth has captivated the public.
- [Bishop Dunne GeoTech Robotics Challenge](https://gisetc.com/bishop-dunne-geotech-robotics-challenge/): As part of the Geotech Conference, students in Mr.
- [Geospatial Tools in Language Arts: Lesson 3](https://gisetc.com/geospatial-tools-in-language-arts-lesson-3/): Digital maps and online mapping tools are critical to understand authors mindsets, elements of plot and character development.
- [Our Spectacular Solar System](https://gisetc.com/our-spectacular-solar-system/): Many people say space is the final frontier. With the space shuttle program over, some view the era of exploration is over. It\'s not.
- [Global Mining Atlas](https://gisetc.com/global-mining-atlas/): Mapperz pointed us to a fascinating global mining atlas. You can scroll across the planet and explore over 10,000 digs and mining projects.
- [A Seventh Grader Sets the Map Straight](https://gisetc.com/a-seventh-grader-sets-the-map-straight/): This is the power of teaching geography to our youth!
- [The United States of Football](https://gisetc.com/the-united-states-of-football/): Just in time for the Superbowl! We ran across an amazing series of fan loyalty maps that follow team support by county.
- [Apps We Love: My Maps Editor](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-my-maps-editor/): The My Maps Editor app allows you to create a map just like drawing.
- [Follow the Digital Nomad](https://gisetc.com/follow-the-digital-nomad/): National Geographic Expeditions has sent a digital nomad, Andrew Evans, to circle the globe and report on his travels.
- [Our Beautiful Planet](https://gisetc.com/our-beautiful-planet/): Today we wanted to point you to an amazing photo gallery from National Geographic.
- [Indiana Jones Maps](https://gisetc.com/indiana-jones-maps/): Maps tell a story. We saw these Indiana Jones character story maps on Laughing Squid and our inner geeks squealed with delight!
- [Apps We Love: TED](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-ted/): Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.
- [Presentation Archive: Region 10 Texas History with Online GIS](https://gisetc.com/presentation-archive-region-10-texas-history-with-online-gis/)
- [Using Colors in Maps](https://gisetc.com/using-colors-in-maps/): When you create a map, there are a lot of factors that can determine it\'s look and feel.
- [Wishes for a Wonderful 2013](https://gisetc.com/wishes-for-a-wonderful-2013/): Follow people\'s resolutions over the map then, if you\'re feeling inspired, click the button to add your own resolutions.
- [Super Tuesdays: All About the Inaugural Addresses](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-all-about-the-inaugural-addresses/): In our lifetime, we will see several presidents take office. Before they do, each one will make an inaugural address to the nation.
- [Civil Rights Map](https://gisetc.com/civil-rights-map/): In honor of MLK Day, follow this link to an interactive civil rights map. The dots represent highlighted incidents from the civil rights movement.
- [Apps We Love: Edmodo](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-edmodo/): Edmodo for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information.
- [Visualizing U.S. Births and Deaths in Real-Time](https://gisetc.com/visualizing-u-s-births-and-deaths-in-real-time/): This mind-blowing map updates births and deaths across the United States in real time as they are reported.
- [What Happens When You Chop Up Cities And Stack Them Sideways](https://gisetc.com/what-happens-when-you-chop-up-cities-and-stack-them-sideways/): Imagine if city maps were puzzles. Have you ever really looked at the shapes involved?
- [Meet the Black Marble](https://gisetc.com/meet-the-black-marble/): Every once in a while we share a resource that makes up stop and say, \"wow\". This is one of those links!
- [Apps We Love: TourWrist](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-tourwrist/): This week\'s app is an award winner!
- [Super Tuesdays: Purple America](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-purple-america/): We ran across the Purple America and were mesmerized by how pretty it was. After some digging online, we found an article about \"Purple America\" on Wikipedia.
- [Apps We Love: Remind101](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-remind101/): First of all, a big thanks to our friend & colleague, Barbaree Duke for bringing Remind101 to our attention!
- [Welcome to FLU-Ville!](https://gisetc.com/welcome-to-flu-ville/): In preparation for flu season this year, the CC challenged web and app developers to come up with a clever app or online game to help raise awareness for flu prevention.
- [Thanksgiving vs. Black Friday?](https://gisetc.com/thanksgiving-vs-black-friday/): A design company, Accurat, created this great interactive map to visually compare geo-referenced Twitter and Instagram hashtagged contributions related to Thanksgiving and Black Friday over the 2 days of November 22 (Thanksgiving) and 23 (Black Friday) 2012 over the city of New York.
- [Map Your Thanksgiving Dinner](https://gisetc.com/map-your-thanksgiving-dinner/): As you prepare for turkey day tomorrow - whether you\'re travelling to family, shopping, cooking or frantically cleaning for company (or several of the above), take a breather and explore where your Thanksgiving meal came from with a delectable, interactive story map from Esri.
- [Happy GIS Day from GISetc](https://gisetc.com/happy-gis-day-from-gisetc/): To celebrate GIS Day, we want to highlight three things that make us happy: 1. We have launched a new section on our website - MAP PORTALS!
- [Super Tuesdays: Swing Votes - How States Have Shifted Over the Years](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-swing-votes-how-states-have-shifted-over-the-years/): Explore one of the cooler interactive graphics we\'ve shared in a while! Follow 60 years of voting history.
- [Superstorm Sandy: Interactive Before and After Images](https://gisetc.com/superstorm-sandy-interactive-before-and-after-images/): Our thoughts and prayers are still with the East Coast as they face monumental reconstruction from devastating hurricane Sandy.
- [Apps We Love: 205 National Anthems, Maps, Flags, Facts](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-205-national-anthems-maps-flags-facts/): After a week of watching news and politics we looked for a \"patriotic app\" to share. What we found exceeded our expectations - patriotism for EVERYONE!
- [Planning Ahead: Building a Map & the Mayflower](https://gisetc.com/planning-ahead-building-a-map-the-mayflower/): With the holidays quickly approaching, we wanted to share a Thanksgiving lesson idea early enough for you to implement it in your classroom.
- [Mapping External Data via ArcGIS Online](https://gisetc.com/mapping-external-data-via-arcgis-online/): We are friends with and big fans of Charlie Fitzpatrick from Esri.
- [Super Tuesdays: Get Real Time Election Result Maps Tonight](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-get-real-time-election-result-maps-tonight/): Election day is finally here. We exercised our right to vote (and we never exercise...it was exhausting! LOL) and we hope you voted too!
- [Why We Fall Back](https://gisetc.com/why-we-fall-back/): So thankful for that extra hour of sleep this past weekend as daylight savings turned back our clocks.
- [Apps We Love: Around Me](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-around-me/): AroundMe quickly identifies your position and allows you to choose the nearest bank, gas station, hospital, hotel, movie theater, restaurant, supermarket, and taxi.
- [Mapping Your Meal](https://gisetc.com/mapping-your-meal/): We are so lucky to have GIS education powerhouse Barbaree Duke on our team! If you aren\'t reading her already, you should!
- [Dress Up Dollars: Mapping Costume Spending for Halloween](https://gisetc.com/dress-up-dollars-mapping-costume-spending-for-halloween/): Happy Halloween! Today we wanted to share a lighter side of mapping with this excellent map exploring national spending on costumes from Esri.
- [Super Tuesdays: Politifact, Dollarocracy & Polltracker Apps](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-politifact-dollarocracy-polltracker-apps/): As the election draws near, we want to share a trio of apps that can help you sort out the facts from the fiction.
- [Test Your Knowledge with EarthPulse's Quiz](https://gisetc.com/test-your-knowledge-with-earthpulses-quiz-2/): Earlier this month we featured EarthPulse as a resource for your classroom.
- [Apps We Love: Geo Photo Explorer](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-geo-photo-explorer/): With Geo Photo Explorer, you can spend hours exploring the world through geo located photos.
- [NOAA: 30 Years of Saving Lives](https://gisetc.com/noaa-30-years-of-saving-lives/): This month marks NOAA\'s 30th anniversary of using GIS technology to save lives. We applaud their efforts and their vision.
- [A Curious Find for Mars Rover, Curiosity](https://gisetc.com/a-curious-find-for-mars-rover-curiosity/): In science we have to keep an open mind and a sense of humor. When we ran across this article (and picture) we laughed out loud!
- [TCEA-GeoSIG: Tech in 20 Free Webinar Tonight](https://gisetc.com/tcea-geosig-tech-in-20-free-webinar-tonight/): Tonight, the TCEA Geospatial Special Interest Group is presenting the second in an exciting series of webinars (only a 20 minute commitment).
- [Super Tuesdays: Segregation of the Rich and the Poor](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-segregation-of-the-rich-and-the-poor/): The wealth of Americans factor into the way that they vote.
- [Rise of the MegaCities](https://gisetc.com/rise-of-the-megacities/): The last few years, as our global population has exploded, our eyes have turned to the creation and growth of MegaCities.
- [Apps We Love: Flu Tracker](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-flu-tracker/): Have you had your flu shot yet? You should! It seems like everyone around me is getting sick, and it\'s barely the beginning of flu season!
- [Meteor Showers This Weekend - Look Up!](https://gisetc.com/meteor-showers-this-weekend-look-up/): We\'re keeping you ahead of the curve! Be sure to watch the skies this weekend (especially Sunday night) for meteor showers.
- [October Is Energy Awareness Month](https://gisetc.com/october-is-energy-awareness-month/): October is Energy Awareness month!
- [Super Tuesdays: Social Media, Gadgets and Voting](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-social-media-gadgets-and-voting/): Double the resources, double the fun! As we were researching Super Tuesday topics, we ran across two articles that seemed like they went together.
- [Play CUBE Maps!](https://gisetc.com/play-cube-maps/): Cube is an interactive 8-level labyrinth game that tests your navigation skills through different cities using interactive features of online maps.
- [Apps We Love: National Geographic Today](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-national-geographic-today/): National Geographic Today for iPad brings you the best of National Geographic’s daily offerings - news, videos, quizzes, articles, and of course, the awe-inspiring photography they\'re known for.
- [Signs of the U.S. Drought Are Underground](https://gisetc.com/signs-of-the-u-s-drought-are-underground/): Drought is plaguing large areas of the U.S. this year. NASA has compiled a collection of maps exploring the drought problems of 2012.
- [EarthPulse: Taking the Pulse of Our Planet](https://gisetc.com/earthpulse-taking-the-pulse-of-our-planet/): National Geographic and the Allianz Knowledge Initiative created EarthPulse to present thoroughly researched and well-presented information about the state of our planet.
- [Super Tuesdays: CONVENTIONal Wisdom](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-conventional-wisdom/): A picture is worth a thousand words.
- [Which Parts of the Country Produce the Most NFL Players?](https://gisetc.com/which-parts-of-the-country-produce-the-most-nfl-players/): Have you ever considered basing a lesson around sports data? It\'s a great way to connect to athletically focused students, and interesting as well.
- [Apps We Love: The Smithsonian Channel](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-the-smithsonian-channel/): The Smithsonian is a national treasure.
- [Perpetual Ocean Model or Animated Van Gogh?](https://gisetc.com/perpetual-ocean-model-or-animated-van-gogh/): We live on a beautiful planet. We never cease to be awed when a new representation or view of our earth is shared that we have never seen before.
- [Nestle Uses GPS Devices Inside Candy Bars](https://gisetc.com/nestle-uses-gps-devices-inside-candy-bars/): It\'s finally happened. The two greatest things in the world have finally merged - GIS & chocolate!
- [Super Tuesdays: 2012 Election Issues Map](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-2012-election-issues-map/): As you explore election topics in your classroom, don\'t be afraid to discuss and debate the issues.
- [Building on the Map...with LEGOS](https://gisetc.com/building-on-the-map-with-legos/): Here\'s another great resource (Let\'s Build with Legos) to get kids of all ages to explore maps!
- [Apps We Love: WhatWasThere](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-whatwasthere/): A recommendation for this app was sent in by Joseph Kerski from ESRI. We love it - thanks for the heads up Joseph!
- [Make Your Own Social Media Map in Minutes](https://gisetc.com/make-your-own-social-media-map-in-minutes/): Social media maps are a tool that can instantly connect your students to trends in current events.
- [Data and Diplomas](https://gisetc.com/data-and-diplomas/): The following contains excerpts and links from an article about graduation rates across the United States.
- [Super Tuesdays: Does Your Vote Count?](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-does-your-vote-count/): We have a lesson completely pre-written for studying the election in our book, 20 Minute GIS.
- [The Separatist Map of Africa: Interactive](https://gisetc.com/the-separatist-map-of-africa-interactive/): A link to this information rich interactive map was sent into us by our friend and colleague, Dr.
- [Apps We Love: Erudio, a Student Organizer](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-erudio-a-student-organizer/): So often we share apps for teachers. Today we wanted to point you to an app to recommend to your students to keep them better organized for success!
- [USGS Historical Maps](https://gisetc.com/usgs-historical-maps/): Every once in a while we run across a MEGA resource for you to use in your classroom.
- [Where Are the Spoiled Cats?](https://gisetc.com/where-are-the-spoiled-cats/): Since Cougar\'s now in charge of our fun links, she decided to share a great article and map that shows where the (other) spoiled cats are.
- [Super Tuesdays: NBC Politics iOS App](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-nbc-politics-ios-app/): A very useful app for following the upcoming elections has been developed by the group at Method for NBC.
- [MyCOE Global Connections and Exchange Program](https://gisetc.com/mycoe-global-connections-and-exchange-program/): At the IGC (International Geography Conference) this summer we learned about the MyCOE Global Connections and Exchange Program from our friend and colleague, Niem Huynh from the Association of American Geographers.
- [Apps We Love: Geocaching](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-geocaching/): We attended GSA\'s first ever Mega EarthCaching event in Maine this summer and had a wonderful time (check out the pictures here).
- [Incredible Optics Gallery](https://gisetc.com/incredible-optics-gallery/): I\'m a long time subscriber to Wired and am addicted to their rich science and technology content.
- [Impact on Jupiter](https://gisetc.com/impact-on-jupiter/): Did you see what happened on Jupiter this week? An amateur astronomer caught the impact on video as he was scanning the skies.
- [Super Tuesdays: Map the Vote](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays-map-the-vote/): To kick off our Super Tuesday resources, we selected a superb article and links written by our friend and colleague, Charlie Fitzpatrick from ESRI.
- [Super Tuesdays](https://gisetc.com/super-tuesdays/): We will be publishing a link to a map resource that relates to the upcoming elections every Tuesday through election day, November 6th, 2012.
- [Following Hurricanes Since 1851](https://gisetc.com/following-hurricanes-since-1851/): We\'ve had hurricanes on the brain! One of our team members lives in Louisiana and evacuated to GISetc h.q.
- [Remembering Pompeii](https://gisetc.com/remembering-pompeii/): Today is the anniversary of Pompeii\'s tragic eruption 1,933 years ago.
- [View Mars Panoramas](https://gisetc.com/view-mars-panoramas/): Ever since Kobie Boykins came out to speak at GeoTech last year, we have paid extra attention to the Mars Rover program.
- [Explore HAWAIIAN Volcanoes: 2013](https://gisetc.com/explore-hawaiian-volcanoes-travel-learn-in-2013/): Join an exciting and enthusiastic group of educators and their families as they learn first-hand the wonders of active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii!
- [European Earthquake Risk Concentrated Around the Mediterranean](https://gisetc.com/european-earthquake-risk-concentrated-around-the-mediterranean/): While preparing for our upcoming trip to Europe, we ran across this article about patterns of earthquakes centered around the Mediterranean, particularly in Italy.
- [A Disappearing Island Restored](https://gisetc.com/a-disappearing-island-restored/): As sea levels change around the globe, islands and shorelines in the Mid-Atlantic are becoming vulnerable to erosion.
- [Supersized: Blooming Oceans & Visual Currents](https://gisetc.com/supersized-blooming-oceans-visual-currents/): Swirling Currents Fuel Huge Ocean Blooms The North Atlantic is currently bursting with color as blooms of microscopic plants erupt on the surface of the chilly sea.
- [Get Mapping...FAST!](https://gisetc.com/get-mapping-fast/): If you need fast maps that relate to classroom content, have a look at our 20 Minute GIS map series! You can access the maps from any device: your computer, iPhone, iPad or other internet enabled devices.
- [Supersized: Building the Harbor & A Tale of Two Coastlines](https://gisetc.com/supersized-a-tale-of-two-coastlines/): Building the Harbor Most of us are familiar with the puzzle-shaped floor mats, but have you ever considered where they come from or what they can do besides just make your feet feel awesome?
- [Supersized: Following the Torch](https://gisetc.com/supersized-following-the-torch/): Following the Torch Are the Olympics here again already? It seems like just yesterday we were all gasping over the opening ceremony in Beijing.
- [GIS Whisperer is here!](https://gisetc.com/shhh-gis-whisperer-is-coming/): Join the Tribe of GIS Whisperers as we migrate to the Esri EdUC in July!
- [Supersized: Intensifying Water Cycles & Our Lakes and Oceans](https://gisetc.com/supersized-intensifying-water-cycles-our-lakes-and-oceans/): A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world\'s oceans, signalling shifts and an acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle.
- [Supersized: Mapping the 4th of July](https://gisetc.com/supersized-mapping-the-4th-of-july/): Finding Fireworks Here\'s your map of where which fireworks are legal.
- [Carte Diem Press](https://gisetc.com/carte-diem-press/): We are delighted to announce the official launch of our new publishing division, Carte Diem Press!
- [Support GEOPORTers!](https://gisetc.com/support-geoporters-2/): GEOPORT is a program whereby professional geospatial educators will travel to communities around the world for extended periods to work hand-in-hand with community members and use geospatial technologies to solve local issues.
- [ISTE Presentation 2012: Understanding the Changing Planet](https://gisetc.com/iste-presentation-2012-understanding-the-changing-planet/): La le La différence augmentin et amoxicilline puis l\'autorité l\'île pour effets secondaires valtrex Monstrelet de après sentit lidocaine vente cour de actes s\'y atrovent remboursement bien Sicile.
- [Supersized: Capture the Flag](https://gisetc.com/supersized-capture-the-flag/): Flags are important, symbolizing allegiance and national pride. We found these two fascinating graphics that explore flags with a geographic twist.
- [Supersized: Habla Espanol?](https://gisetc.com/supersized-habla-espanol/): At GISetc, we do a lot of international work, especially in Costa Rica and other Spanish-speaking GIS communities.
- [Supersized: Summer Reading](https://gisetc.com/supersized-summer-reading/): Are you looking for some good books this summer? Let us make some suggestions...
- [Region X World History Presentation](https://gisetc.com/region-x-world-history-presentation/): Today we\'re presenting on World History and Geography. Click here to download materials from our workshop, GIS on the Web - World History.
- [Supersized: Epic Tornado Season in 2012](https://gisetc.com/supersized-epic-tornado-season-in-2012/): A Record-Breaking Tornado Season in 2012 The year began with an unusual number of tornadoes during January 2012.
- [Supersized: Basking In the Summer Sun - Exploring Solar Energy](https://gisetc.com/supersized-basking-in-the-summer-sun-exploring-solar-energy/): Solar Energy Through the centuries, scientists have found innovative ways to harness the power of the sun — from magnifying glasses to steam engines.
- [Supersized: Into the Woods & Mapping the Search for Bigfoot](https://gisetc.com/supersized-where-the-trees-are-mapping-the-search-for-bigfoot/): Where the Trees Are Trees are one of Earth’s largest banks for storing the carbon that gets emitted by natural processes and human activities.
- [May 2012 Resource Review](https://gisetc.com/may-2012-resource-review/): We published our May Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun.
- [Just for Fun - an App & a Game in One: Comet Quest](https://gisetc.com/just-for-fun-an-app-a-game-in-one-comet-quest/): A new NASA iPhone game from The Space Place! Learn about comets and the Rosetta mission while playing “Comet Quest”.
- [Yellowstone Super-Eruptions More Numerous Than Thought](https://gisetc.com/yellowstone-super-eruptions-more-numerous-than-thought/): The huge volcanic crater that makes up much of Yellowstone may have seen more so-called super-eruptions than previously thought, a new study says.
- [NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Quakes](https://gisetc.com/nasa-tests-gps-monitoring-system-for-big-u-s-quakes/): The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and magnitude of strong earthquakes across the western United States.
- [Maps of Panem: the Hunger Games](https://gisetc.com/maps-of-panem-the-hunger-games/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [Jane Austen: Maps of the Novels](https://gisetc.com/jane-austen-maps-of-the-novels/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids](https://gisetc.com/the-maps-we-wandered-into-as-kids/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [May Mapping Songs and the Ultimate GEOplaylist](https://gisetc.com/may-mapping-songs-and-the-ultimate-geoplaylist/): Welcome to our GEOplaylist! All of us here at GISetc love music. We listen while working, traveling, relaxing...basically all the time.
- [Apps We Love: SoldierEyes](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-soldiereyes/): The employees of GISetc appreciate and support the service of our American military.
- [The Demographics of the Military](https://gisetc.com/the-demographics-of-the-military/): The employees of GISetc appreciate and support the service of our American military.
- [Add Your Thanks to Our Troops to the Map](https://gisetc.com/add-your-thanks-to-our-troops-to-the-map/): The employees of GISetc appreciate and support the service of our American military.
- [The History Channel's Archive of Memorial Day History Videos and Maps](https://gisetc.com/the-history-channels-archive-of-memorial-day-history-videos-and-maps/): The employees of GISetc appreciate and support the service of our American military.
- [Home & Away: War Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq](https://gisetc.com/home-away-war-casualties-in-afghanistan-and-iraq/): The employees of GISetc appreciate and support the service of our American military.
- [Apps We Love: College FAFSA Finder](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-college-fafsa-finder/): It’s graduation season once again and we’re celebrating! So throw your cap in the air and enjoy a week of maps and data about commencement.
- [Virtual Campus Tours](https://gisetc.com/virtual-campus-tours/): It’s graduation season once again and we’re celebrating! So throw your cap in the air and enjoy a week of maps and data about commencement.
- [Find a College, Community College or University (Interactive Map)](https://gisetc.com/find-a-college-community-college-or-university-interactive-map/): It’s graduation season once again and we’re celebrating! So throw your cap in the air and enjoy a week of maps and data about commencement.
- [Graduation Rate Hits Record High For High School Students](https://gisetc.com/graduation-rate-hits-record-high-for-high-school-students/): It’s graduation season once again and we’re celebrating! So throw your cap in the air and enjoy a week of maps and data about commencement.
- [Mapping High School Graduation, Dropout Rates Across the U.S.](https://gisetc.com/mapping-high-school-graduation-dropout-rates-across-the-u-s/): It’s graduation season once again and we’re celebrating! So throw your cap in the air and enjoy a week of maps and data about commencement.
- [Apps We Love: GeoBee Challenge by National Geographic](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-geobee-challenge-by-national-geographic/): Once a month we’re sharing a week of MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re amazing and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [The Geoporter Report: April 2013](https://gisetc.com/the-geoporter-report-april-2013/): Each month we\'re bringing you a progress report from our Geoporter program.
- [Distance to Mars](https://gisetc.com/distance-to-mars/): Once a month we’re sharing a week of MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re amazing and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [The FRIES that Bind Us Together](https://gisetc.com/the-fries-that-bind-us-together/): Once a month we’re sharing a week of MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re amazing and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [Are you a GIS Whisperer?](https://gisetc.com/are-you-a-gis-whisperer/): Don’t miss the chance to join our tribe of GIS Whisperers!
- [Interactive Birth Rate Map](https://gisetc.com/interactive-birth-rate-map/): Once a month we’re sharing a week of MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re amazing and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [Apps We Love: SayHi Translate](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-sayhi-translate/): In Texas, GISetc HQ, Cinco de Mayo is a BIG DEAL.
- [Teaching GPS in SPANISH](https://gisetc.com/teaching-gps-in-spanish/): In Texas, GISetc HQ, Cinco de Mayo is a BIG DEAL.
- [REAL Men and Women...teach!](https://gisetc.com/real-men-and-women-teach/): To all the real men and women that teach, we think that you\'re amazing! Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to real heroes! Like our buttons?
- [National Geographic's Guide to Mexico](https://gisetc.com/national-geographics-guide-to-mexico-2/): In Texas, GISetc HQ, Cinco de Mayo is a BIG DEAL.
- [Mexican Map Portal](https://gisetc.com/mexican-map-portal/): In Texas, GISetc HQ, Cinco de Mayo is a BIG DEAL.
- [Teachers are Fearless!](https://gisetc.com/teachers-are-fearless/): We salute the brave folks that are passionate about teaching, learning and empowering students!
- [Cinco De Mayo on the Map](https://gisetc.com/cinco-de-mayo-on-the-map/): In Texas, GISetc HQ, Cinco de Mayo is a BIG DEAL.
- [Apps We Love: Map of the Dead - Zombie Apocalypse Survival](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-map-of-the-dead-zombie-apocalypse-survival/): There’s a “fifth week” of blogging this month. We know, it’s technically a week spanning over April and May.
- [How to Get Your Voice on the GPS](https://gisetc.com/how-to-get-your-voice-on-the-gps/): There’s a “fifth week” of blogging this month. We know, it’s technically a week spanning over April and May.
- [Map Pops! Nom, Nom, Nom](https://gisetc.com/map-pops-nom-nom-nom/): There’s a “fifth week” of blogging this month. We know, it’s technically a week spanning over April and May.
- [First Listen: the GEOplaylist](https://gisetc.com/first-listen-the-geoplaylist/): Welcome to our GEOplaylist! All of us here at GISetc love music. We listen while working, traveling, relaxing...basically all the time.
- [Made from a Map: Recycled Road Map Cork Board](https://gisetc.com/made-from-a-map-recycled-road-map-cork-board/): There’s a “fifth week” of blogging this month. We know, it’s technically a week spanning over April and May.
- [Apps We Love: My Green Apps](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-my-green-apps/): GISetc is going GREEN this week in celebration of Earth Day! Every day this week we’ll be sharing resources about our wonderful planet.
- [Video: NASA’s Best Views of Earth From Space in 2012](https://gisetc.com/video-nasas-best-views-of-earth-from-space-in-2012/): GISetc is going GREEN this week in celebration of Earth Day! Every day this week we’ll be sharing resources about our wonderful planet.
- [Scientists Map Swirling Ocean Eddies for Clues to Climate Change](https://gisetc.com/scientists-map-swirling-ocean-eddies-for-clues-to-climate-change/): GISetc is going GREEN this week in celebration of Earth Day! Every day this week we’ll be sharing resources about our wonderful planet.
- [America’s Most Endangered River of 2013: The Colorado](https://gisetc.com/americas-most-endangered-river-of-2013-the-colorado/): GISetc is going GREEN this week in celebration of Earth Day! Every day this week we’ll be sharing resources about our wonderful planet.
- [The History of Earth Day](https://gisetc.com/the-history-of-earth-day/): GISetc is going GREEN this week in celebration of Earth Day! Every day this week we’ll be sharing resources about our wonderful planet.
- [Apps We Love: EconClassroom](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-econclassroom/): This week our theme is taxes and economics.
- [West: Mapping a Tragedy](https://gisetc.com/west-mapping-a-tragedy/): We have such heavy hearts this week. So much sadness already in Boston, and now we can\'t turn away from the coverage of the tragic explosion in West, Texas.
- [Where Federal Tax Dollars Come From](https://gisetc.com/where-federal-tax-dollars-come-from/): This week our theme is taxes and economics.
- [Wealth Inequality in America](https://gisetc.com/wealth-inequality-in-america/): This week our theme is taxes and economics.
- [Teaching Economics with GIS](https://gisetc.com/teaching-economics-with-gis/): This week our theme is taxes and economics.
- [Sympathy for Boston from Space](https://gisetc.com/sympathy-for-boston-from-space/): As a business we will not ignore the events around us. These are the times that shape us.
- [Taxes Around the World](https://gisetc.com/taxes-around-the-world/): This week our theme is taxes and economics.
- [NSTA 2013 San Antonio Presentations](https://gisetc.com/nsta-2013-san-antonio-presentations/)
- [Apps We Love: Educreations Interactive Whiteboard](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-educreations-interactive-whiteboard/): This week our featured app is a tool for teachers, Educreations Interactive Whiteboard! \"Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard.
- [Science is for Everyone, Kids Included](https://gisetc.com/science-is-for-everyone-kids-included/): In honor of NSTA (the National Science Teacher’s Association Show) this month, we’re sharing a fun science link every day this week!
- [How A LEGO Shuttle Got To Space](https://gisetc.com/how-a-lego-shuttle-got-to-space/): In honor of NSTA (the National Science Teacher’s Association Show) this month, we’re sharing a fun science link every day this week! We love LEGOS.
- [There\'s No Crying in Space!](https://gisetc.com/theres-no-crying-in-space-3/): In honor of NSTA (the National Science Teacher’s Association Show) this month, we’re sharing a fun science link every day this week!
- [There\'s No Crying in Space!](https://gisetc.com/theres-no-crying-in-space-2/): In honor of NSTA (the National Science Teacher’s Association Show) this month, we’re sharing a fun science link every day this week!
- [Exploring the Future of Internet Education](https://gisetc.com/exploring-the-future-of-internet-education/): In honor of NSTA (the National Science Teacher’s Association Show) this month, we’re sharing a fun science link every day this week!
- [Apps We Love: Barefoot World Atlas](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-barefoot-world-atlas/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [A Great Resource for Water Awareness](https://gisetc.com/a-great-resource-for-water-awareness/): We shared a week of resources about water last month, but missed an amazing one! Remember our post with this STUNNING infographic?
- [Mapping North Korea with Crowdsourcing](https://gisetc.com/mapping-north-korea-with-crowdsourcing/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [BIG Australia: Geographically & Demographically](https://gisetc.com/big-australia-geographically-demographically/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [History and Online GIS Workshop](https://gisetc.com/history-and-online-gis-workshop/): Thank you for attending our History and Online GIS Workshop! Please follow the link below to access our handout.
- [Join the tribe!](https://gisetc.com/join-the-tribe/): Don\'t miss the chance to be in our migrating tribe of GIS Whisperers!
- [Informational Webinar for APHG Teachers](https://gisetc.com/two-free-informational-webinar-for-aphg-teachers/): Join us for this free, informational webinar about Elmhurst College\'s APHG Graduate Certificate Program.
- [Poems About Places](https://gisetc.com/poems-about-places/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [April Fools! 5 Hilarious Fake Scientific Breakthroughs](https://gisetc.com/april-fools-5-hilarious-fake-scientific-breakthroughs/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [Apps We Love: EarthLapse](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-earthlapse/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [Must See Maps: Discover the MinuteEarth Series](https://gisetc.com/must-see-maps-discover-the-minuteearth-series/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [Must See Maps: The Geography and Politics of News-Sharing Communities in Twitter](https://gisetc.com/must-see-maps-the-geography-and-politics-of-news-sharing-communities-in-twitter/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [Must See Maps: U.S. Severe Weather Map](https://gisetc.com/must-see-maps-u-s-severe-weather-map/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [Must See Maps: Map Your Professional Connections with LinkedIn Labs](https://gisetc.com/must-see-maps-map-your-professional-connections-with-linkedin-labs/): Once a month we’re sharing MUST SEE MAPS...just because they’re cool and sometimes the really cool stuff doesn’t fit into one of our tidy theme weeks.
- [World Water Week: Happy World Water Day!](https://gisetc.com/world-water-week-happy-world-water-day/): World Water Day has arrived! We hope you\'ve enjoyed the water links this week.
- [Apps We Love: WaterPrint](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-waterprint/): World Water Day is this Friday, March 22nd! To celebrate we’re talking water all week - sharing maps & apps about H2O.
- [World Water Week: Underwater Photo Gallery](https://gisetc.com/world-water-week-underwater-photo-gallery/): World Water Day is this Friday, March 22nd! To celebrate we’re talking water all week - sharing maps & apps about H2O. Today\'s link is a REAL TREAT!
- [World Water Week: U.S. Water Fluoridation Map](https://gisetc.com/world-water-week-u-s-water-fluoridation-map/): World Water Day is this Friday, March 22nd! To celebrate we’re talking water all week - sharing maps & apps about H2O.
- [World Water Week: Why Care About Water?](https://gisetc.com/world-water-week-why-care-about-water/): World Water Day is this Friday, March 22nd! To celebrate we’re talking water all week - sharing maps & apps about H2O.
- [Apps We Love: Circle of Six](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-circle-of-six/): It’s Women’s Week at GISetc in honor of International Women’s Day which was last Friday, March 8th.
- [Women\'s Week 2013: Raising Awareness to Domestic Violence Against Women](https://gisetc.com/womens-week-2013-raising-awareness-to-domestic-violence-against-women-2/): It’s Women’s Week at GISetc in honor of International Women’s Day which was last Friday, March 8th.
- [Women\'s Week 2013: Exploring the Global Gender Gap](https://gisetc.com/womens-week-2013-exploring-the-global-gender-gap-3/): It’s Women’s Week at GISetc in honor of International Women’s Day which was last Friday, March 8th.
- [Women\'s Week 2013: Exploring the Global Gender Gap](https://gisetc.com/womens-week-2013-exploring-the-global-gender-gap-2/): It’s Women’s Week at GISetc in honor of International Women’s Day which was last Friday, March 8th.
- [Women\'s Week 2013: Exploring the Global Gender Gap](https://gisetc.com/womens-week-2013-exploring-the-global-gender-gap/): It’s Women’s Week at GISetc in honor of International Women’s Day which was last Friday, March 8th.
- [Women's Week 2013: Political Rights Mapped Around the World](https://gisetc.com/womens-week-2013-political-rights-mapped-around-the-world-2/): It’s Women’s Week at GISetc in honor of International Women’s Day which was last Friday, March 8th.
- [Apps We Love: Goby](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-goby/): This week we\'re prepping for Spring Break 2013 with a collection of links to road trip related maps & apps for you to enjoy.This week our app, Goby, can help you find fun on the road!
- [Spring Break 2013: Hitting the Road](https://gisetc.com/spring-break-2013-hitting-the-road/): This week we\'re prepping for Spring Break 2013 with a collection of links to road trip related maps & apps for you to enjoy.
- [Spring Break 2013: Taking a 48 State Road Trip!](https://gisetc.com/spring-break-2013-taking-a-48-state-road-trip/): This week we\'re prepping for Spring Break 2013 with a collection of links to road trip related maps & apps for you to enjoy.
- [Spring Break 2013: What if State Lines were drawn by U.S. Interstates?](https://gisetc.com/spring-break-2013-what-if-state-lines-were-drawn-by-u-s-interstates/): This week we\'re prepping for Spring Break 2013 with a collection of links to road trip related maps & apps for you to enjoy.
- [Spring Break 2013: Map Your Vacation](https://gisetc.com/spring-break-2013-map-your-vacation/): This week we\'re prepping for Spring Break 2013 with a collection of links to road trip related maps & apps for you to enjoy.
- [GeoTech 2013 Begins](https://gisetc.com/geotech-2013-begins/): It\'s GeoTech week! Which means we\'re hosting a big GIS teacher\'s conference in Dallas this week.
- [GeoTech 2013 Schedules](https://gisetc.com/geotech-2013-schedules/)
- [GeoTech Highlight: Jim Bowden](https://gisetc.com/geotech-highlight-jim-bowden/): James K. Bowden is an experienced paleontologist, a Certified Interpretive Guide, and an accomplished flintknapper.
- [GeoTech Highlight: Herb Thompson, a.k.a. GeoMan](https://gisetc.com/geotech-highlight-herb-thompson-a-k-a-geoman/): Herb Thompson also known in Nevada as GeoMan to students and teachers alike, has devoted most of his adult life to the study of geography.
- [Apps We Love: The World by National Geographic](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-the-world-by-national-geographic/): Take your planet out for a spin! The World by National Geographic offers classic map content in a contemporary virtual globe.
- [It\'s a Small World After All](https://gisetc.com/its-a-small-world-after-all-3/): Recently, Wired Magazine featured a gallery of the 2012 winners of the Small World microscope photography contest.
- [It\'s a Small World After All](https://gisetc.com/its-a-small-world-after-all-2/): Recently, Wired Magazine featured a gallery of the 2012 winners of the Small World microscope photography contest.
- [It\'s a Small World After All](https://gisetc.com/its-a-small-world-after-all/): Recently, Wired Magazine featured a gallery of the 2012 winners of the Small World microscope photography contest.
- [The World in Miniature](https://gisetc.com/the-world-in-miniature/): We ran across this fascinating infographic on human geography. This chart is a great way to visually communicate data to your students.
- [Apps We Love: TeacherCast](https://gisetc.com/apps-we-love-teachercast/): If you are an educator and are looking for the best ways to teach your students, look no further than TeacherCast.
- [Asteroid DA14, Friday Flyby](https://gisetc.com/asteroid-da14-friday-flyby/): No this is not the 2012 apocalypse sequel, we\'re just having a close encounter with an asteroid today.
- [The Logististics of Valentine\'s Day](https://gisetc.com/the-logististics-of-valentines-day-3/): Happy Valentine\'s Day from GISetc!
- [The Logististics of Valentine\'s Day](https://gisetc.com/the-logististics-of-valentines-day-2/): Happy Valentine\'s Day from GISetc!
- [The Logististics of Valentine\'s Day](https://gisetc.com/the-logististics-of-valentines-day/): Happy Valentine\'s Day from GISetc!
- [Penguins from Space!](https://gisetc.com/penguins-from-space/): As I type this up, all I can think of is the Muppet Show with the segment \"PIGS FROM SPACE\"...I digress.
- [Free Geography Printable Art](https://gisetc.com/free-geography-printable-art/): We love map inspired art! It can add a fun graphic element to your home or classroom.
- [Six Ways Climate Change Affect You](https://gisetc.com/six-ways-climate-change-affect-you/): Climate change is a concept we discuss often, but we don\'t often personalize the concept of how it directly affects our lives and connect it with our students.
- [Try the FREE My World Projects Collection](https://gisetc.com/try-the-free-my-world-projects-collection/): We share valuable education resources on our blog every day, but today\'s choice is doubly special to us.
- [Flu Outbreak Maps](https://gisetc.com/flu-outbreak-maps/): Here at GISetc we are fighting off the remnants of a cough, and it feels like flu has hit hard this year, affecting several of our friends and family.
- [GeoInspirations: Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux: Pushing geography into the sky — literally](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-lesley-ann-dupigny-giroux-pushing-geography-into-the-sky-literally/): Editor’s note: Welcome back to our GeoInspirations series, in which our distinguished guest columnist, Dr.
- [GIS Day 2016: Fight Evil...Make Maps](https://gisetc.com/fight-evil-make-maps-2016/): We believe that Earth is a beautiful planet.
- [I Voted! 2016 map](https://gisetc.com/i-voted-2016-map/): Voting stickers popping up everywhere! So we thought…”hey, we could map those stickers!” We created a Crowdsource Story Map to do just that!
- [GeoInspirations: Grant Ian Thrall, Bridging Geography, Business and Economics](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-grant-ian-thrall-bridging-geography-business-and-economics/): Today\'s GeoInspiration is Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Robert Saveland -  Geography Educator, War Hero, Lifelong Learner](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-robert-saveland-geography-educator-war-hero-lifelong-learner/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Madison Vorva — A Voice for Change](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-madison-vorva-a-voice-for-change/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this month's edition of GeoInspirations. Today Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Bob Dulli, a loud and persistent voice for Geo Ed](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-bob-dulli-a-loud-and-persistent-voice-for-geo-ed/): Editor’s note: Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Maps for the light](https://gisetc.com/25644-2/): We admit to having a mapping problem. We also admit to a growing collection of cool things to do with paper maps.
- [Esri Education GIS Conference 2016](https://gisetc.com/educ2016/): Please visit with us Saturday and Sunday in the EdUC Exhibit hall!
- [2016 ESC 7 Summit](https://gisetc.com/esc7/)
- [NSTA 2016](https://gisetc.com/nsta-2016/): GISetc is hanging out with our friends from Esri in BOOTH 500. We have free materials, and great ideas to get mapping and analysis into your classroom.
- [Five forces catapulting geography onto the world stage](https://gisetc.com/five-forces-catapulting-geography-onto-the-world-stage/): Five converging global trends may present geography with unprecedented world attention: geo-awareness, geo-enablement, geotechnologies, citizen science and storytelling.
- [TCEA Presentations](https://gisetc.com/tcea-presentations/): If you\'re looking for cool things related to geospatial technology, digital maps and interactive online mapping....but need it to be free for your school.
- [Good Question: Do you have resources on biodiversity hotspots?](https://gisetc.com/good-question-do-you-have-resources-on-biodiversity-hotspots/): While we do have some single lessons on our site, we didn\'t have one that met this criteria exactly.
- [Celebrating our Irish](https://gisetc.com/celebrating-our-irish/): Top of the morning to all of our geo-friends! The GISetc is showing off our Irish roots as you can see by our dancing.
- [#GISedSelfie Fun from Esri EdUC](https://gisetc.com/gisedselfie-fun-from-esri-educ-2/): Thanks for stopping by and spreading the joy of all things geo!
- [#GISedSelfie Fun from Esri EdUC](https://gisetc.com/gisedselfie-fun-from-esri-educ/): Thanks for stopping by and spreading the joy of all things geo!
- [Using GIS to Teach Common Core](https://gisetc.com/using-gis-to-teach-common-core-2/): Check out the latest project from Barbaree about using GIS to teach Common Core standards.
- [Using GIS to Teach Common Core](https://gisetc.com/using-gis-to-teach-common-core/): Check out the latest project from Barbaree about using GIS to teach Common Core standards.
- [Grabbing a Bite on Vacation](https://gisetc.com/grabbing-a-bite-on-vacation/): We started brainstorming fun summer maps to post on our blog - and we started thinking about road trips...and then we got hungry...and then we came up with the idea of pulling together a collection of some of the coolest road trip fast food maps.
- [It's a Citizen Science Summer](https://gisetc.com/its-a-citizen-science-summer-2/): Fill your summer with citizen science adventures.
- [Geocache Your Way through Summer](https://gisetc.com/geocache-your-way-through-summer/): [vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=\"http://youtu.be/1YTqitVK-Ts\"][vc_column_text]This summer, start geocaching!
- [Following Your #SummerPhotos on the Map](https://gisetc.com/following-your-summerphotos-on-the-map/): Since it\'s summer, most of us are spending a little more time on social media.
- [Creative Summer Projects with Maps](https://gisetc.com/creative-summer-projects-with-maps/): Are you crafty? Are you looking for some inspiration for creative projects to fill your summer months? Look no further!
- [A Teacher\'s Adventure from Costa Rica to California](https://gisetc.com/a-teachers-adventure-from-coata-rica-to-california-2/): For those of you that follow us regularly, you know we are heavily involved with the Geoporter organization.
- [It\'s World Environment Day!](https://gisetc.com/its-world-environment-day-2/): Every year, the United Nations sets the theme for World Environment Day and raises awareness for their cause.
- [#GraduationTrends](https://gisetc.com/graduationtrends/): A teachers, each year we watch the graduation rates rise and fall, measuring our success - and sometimes the shortfalls of our system.
- [Social Butterflies](https://gisetc.com/social-butterflies/): [vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/1\"][vc_column_text]Did you know we are social butterflies? If you found this, obviously, you know we blog.
- [Honoring & Remembering Our Troops](https://gisetc.com/honoring-remembering-our-troops/): With Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day both falling in May, as a nation, we all reflected on the call to service and sacrifice or our service men and women in our military.
- [Mapping from National Geographic](https://gisetc.com/mapping-from-national-geographic/): National Geographic has a depth of cartographic resources online!
- [Global Selfie Day](https://gisetc.com/global-selfie-day/): GISetc is wishing all a Happy Earth Day!
- [Happy National Parks Week!](https://gisetc.com/happy-national-parks-week-2/): Tomorrow National Parks week opens! To kick off the celebration, enjoy FREE access to any national park this weekend.
- [Maps & Taxes](https://gisetc.com/maps-taxes/): Happy tax day! (Is that an oxymoron?) We hope your taxes are filed & you\'re reading our blog, leisurely, with your feet up, eating bonbons.
- [Add Yourself to the Map](https://gisetc.com/add-yourself-to-the-map/): Interactive maps are wonderful tools to explore data. Ever use them to find others like you in your field?
- [The Maps of Game of Thrones](https://gisetc.com/the-maps-of-game-of-thrones/): Maps aren\'t just for the geography classroom anymore!
- [It\'s April - So Read a Road Map!](https://gisetc.com/its-april-so-read-a-road-map-2/): This month kicked off with National Read a Road Map Week!
- [Springtime: It\'s for the Birds](https://gisetc.com/springtime-its-for-the-birds-2/): It\'s officially springtime, and after thinking of plants and blooms, our thoughts turn to our feathered friends returning from warmer climes.
- [Spring Has Sprung](https://gisetc.com/spring-has-sprung/): Today, on the first day of Spring, we want to share maps of springtime. What better way to map the spring than to follow the planting maps?
- [Happy St. Patrick\'s Day fom GISetc](https://gisetc.com/happy-st-patricks-day-fom-gisetc-2/): Hope you\'re wearing green!!! To celebrate St. Patty\'s Day, we went on a dig through the internet for St. Patrick\'s Day maps & geo resources.
- [Follow Us on Instagram](https://gisetc.com/follow-us-on-instagram/): Are you on Instagram? So are we! C\'mon, all the cool kids are doing it...FOLLOW GISetc on Instagram today!
- [Understanding Daylight Savings Time](https://gisetc.com/understanding-daylight-savings-time/): It\'s that time again! This last weekend, most of us \"sprung forward\" with Daylight Savings Time.
- [A Month of Women\'s History Maps & Resources](https://gisetc.com/a-month-of-womens-history-maps-resources-3/): Not only is it International Women\'s Day, it is also Women\'s History Month.
- [A Month of Women\'s History Maps & Resources](https://gisetc.com/a-month-of-womens-history-maps-resources-2/): Not only is it International Women\'s Day, it is also Women\'s History Month.
- [A Month of Women\'s History Maps & Resources](https://gisetc.com/a-month-of-womens-history-maps-resources/): Not only is it International Women\'s Day, it is also Women\'s History Month.
- [MOOC: Skills for the Digital Earth](https://gisetc.com/mooc-skills-for-the-digital-earth/): The \"Skills for the Digital Earth\" MOOC (massively open online course) is appropriate for GIS newbies and also includes more advanced modules for those seasoned GISers.
- [Visit the Winter Weather Center Online](https://gisetc.com/visit-the-winter-weather-center-online/): AccuWeather has generated an incredible collection of maps ans stories about our severe winter weather this year.
- [How GPS Units Actually Work](https://gisetc.com/how-gps-units-actually-work/): At GISetc, we work with GPS units, a lot!
- [MAAP: Mapping the African American Past](https://gisetc.com/maap-mapping-the-african-american-past/): MAAP is a treasure trove of educational resources, full of lessons and maps for teachers exploring African American History.
- [The Winter Olympics at Sochi: from Maps to Social Media](https://gisetc.com/the-winter-olympics-at-sochi-from-maps-to-social-media/): Have your students track the success of each country at the Sochi Winter Olympics with this interactive map created by Mashable.
- [Grand Opening: GISetc Boutique](https://gisetc.com/grand-opening-gisetc-boutique/): You\'ve asked & we\'ve answered!
- [Stargazing Gallery: February 2014](https://gisetc.com/stargazing-gallery-february-2014/): Space.com is a wonderful resource for monthly photos, maps and articles about what to look for in our night skies.
- [Black History Month Resources](https://gisetc.com/black-history-month-resources/): In our search for the best online geography resources for Black History month, we discovered National Geographic\'s collection of maps and content.
- [TCEA 2014](https://gisetc.com/tcea-2014/): We\'d love to see all of our geospatial friends next week at TCEA!
- [Mapping The 2014 Sochi Torch Relay](https://gisetc.com/mapping-the-2014-sochi-torch-relay/): Are you following the torch? The 2014 Winter Olympics are opening in February and the Olympic torch is well on it\'s journey to Sochi.
- [Mapping Teacher Income Across the Country](https://gisetc.com/mapping-teacher-income-across-the-country/): Ever wonder how your state stacks up to others when comparing teacher\'s pay?
- [Winter Storms of January 2014](https://gisetc.com/winter-storms-of-january-2014/): This has been a cold January across America. We have had weather on the brain as we\'ve been bundling up & staying warm.
- [MLK Timeline Map](https://gisetc.com/mlk-timeline-map/): Take a moment, this MLK Day, and explore an online map timeline, full of links to information about Martin Luther King Junior\'s life and accomplishments.
- [GeoTech 2014](https://gisetc.com/geotech-2014/): GeoTech allows teachers to explore the most cutting edge technologies available in education today.
- [Snow Business](https://gisetc.com/snow-business/): With the latest cold front, we\'ve had super cold weather on the brain!
- [Twelve Maps that Changed the World](https://gisetc.com/twelve-maps-that-changed-the-world/): In the book, A History of the World in 12 Maps, Jerry Brotton catalogs the maps which he considers to cover the most pivotal periods in human history.
- [Pinning Maps on Pinterest](https://gisetc.com/pinning-maps-on-pinterest/): Are you on Pinterest? Do you LOVE maps? Follow all of our boards on Pinterest for teachers, students and geography and GIS professionals.
- [Baby, It\'s Cold Outside](https://gisetc.com/baby-its-cold-outside-2/): We\'re having a COLD week here in Texas, but we\'re downright warm compared to what\'s happening across the rest of the country!
- [A Merry Christmas to all and Mappy New Year: 2013 in Review](https://gisetc.com/a-merry-christmas-to-all-and-mappy-new-year-2013-in-review/): and oh YES... we started a non-profit called Geoporter!
- [Merry Christmas through Mapping & Infographics](https://gisetc.com/merry-christmas-through-mapping-infographics/): We searched the web for fun holiday maps and in our browsing stumbled upon the Christmas stream of infographics from Visual.ly.
- [Resources for Using iPads in Education](https://gisetc.com/resources-for-using-ipads-in-education/): Looking for more ways to incorporate your iPad into your classroom?
- [The GEOPORTer Map Gallery](https://gisetc.com/the-geoporter-map-gallery/): Geoporter has uploaded a map gallery, where you can explore the projects they are involved in.
- [Bonnie & Clyde: Mapping a Life of Crime](https://gisetc.com/bonnie-clyde-mapping-a-life-of-crime/): If you\'re like us, you tuned in to watch the big Bonnie & Clyde mini series across multiple cable channels last weekend (or it\'s sitting on your DVR waiting for your \"free time\").
- [Send a Little Spatial Cheer This Season](https://gisetc.com/send-a-little-spatial-cheer-this-season/): Have a little fun with all your spatial friends this season! We have limited quantities of these geospatial postcards.
- [Create Your Own Thematic Atlas Using Esri Atlas](https://gisetc.com/create-your-own-thematic-atlas-using-esri-atlas/): Here is an amazing free resource for you teachers out there: Esri Atlas!
- [Save a Bundle on Esri Press Books](https://gisetc.com/save-a-bundle-on-esri-press-books/): Did you know that you can make your own Geo-Bargain Bundle in our store?! All our Esri Press books are 40% off regularly.
- [Support Geospatial Education by Donating to GEOPORTers on Indiegogo](https://gisetc.com/support-geospatial-education-by-donating-to-geoporters-on-indiegogo/): As you know Geoporter has been active in Bahia Ballena for over a year now teaching community members to use GIS and GPS to investigate the whales in Marino Ballena National Park, map and take action against trash in the streets, and works with teachers in the local schools.
- [Mapping Thanksgiving](https://gisetc.com/mapping-thanksgiving/): We have turkey on the brain - and stuffing, and gravy, and cranberries...you get the picture.
- [GIS Day](https://gisetc.com/gis-day/): GIS Day was created as an initiative for people around the world to learn more about GIS.
- [Happy Geography Awareness Week](https://gisetc.com/happy-geography-awareness-week/): Every third week in November is Geography Awareness week!
- [Updating...part of the cloudy process](https://gisetc.com/updating-part-of-the-cloudy-process/): In the 21st Century we must embrace the notion of cloud-computing and all that comes with it. (Not that we really had a choice.)
- [Mapping the Future: The First National GIS in Schools Conference, UK](https://gisetc.com/mapping-the-future-the-first-national-gis-in-schools-conference-uk/): We are delighted to be presenters at the UK\'s first national GIS in schools conference!
- [Explore Estimated Block Level Annual Energy Consumption in NYC](https://gisetc.com/explore-estimated-block-level-annual-energy-consumption-in-nyc/): With heat (hopefully) comes air conditioning! To keep you cool this week we’re exploring electricity usage through maps.
- [The United States of Energy](https://gisetc.com/the-united-states-of-energy/): With heat (hopefully) comes air conditioning! To keep you cool this week we’re exploring electricity usage through maps.
- [Australian Heat Wave Forces Experts to Redesign Temperature Maps](https://gisetc.com/australian-heat-wave-forces-experts-to-redesign-temperature-maps/): It’s heating up! As we roll into August, let’s take a look at temperature maps from around the globe...
- [The July Edition of Our GEOplaylist](https://gisetc.com/the-july-edition-of-our-geoplaylist/): Welcome to our GEOplaylist! All of us here at GISetc love music. We listen while working, traveling, relaxing...basically all the time.
- [2013 Summer Temperature Forecast](https://gisetc.com/2013-summer-temperature-forecast/): It’s heating up! As we roll into August, let’s take a look at temperature maps from around the globe...
- [Epic Movie Maps](https://gisetc.com/epic-movie-maps/): Classic Movies Mapped Out in Style How many times have you watched your favorite Star Wars movie? Indulged in a bit of Indiana Jones?
- [Need APHG Training?](https://gisetc.com/need-aphg-training/): Get the latest scoop on a new APHG training program from Elmhurst College!
- [Mapping the Movies: 50 Films for 50 States](https://gisetc.com/mapping-the-movies-50-films-for-50-states/): As we seek shelter from the summer heat, we’ve gone to the movies to say cool & take a break.
- [Find Movies Filmed Near You With Online Maps](https://gisetc.com/find-movies-filmed-near-you-with-online-maps/): As we seek shelter from the summer heat, we’ve gone to the movies to say cool & take a break.
- [The GEOPORTER Report: June 2013](https://gisetc.com/the-geoporter-report-june-2013/): Each month we\'re bringing you a progress report from our Geoporter program.
- [Science Projects on the Ocean](https://gisetc.com/science-projects-on-the-ocean/): It’s summertime and we’re all thinking about the beach - so we’re sharing two weeks of beach map and science resources for you to enjoy.
- [Seashore Science Projects](https://gisetc.com/seashore-science-projects/): It’s summertime and we’re all thinking about the beach - so we’re sharing two weeks of beach map and science resources for you to enjoy.
- [All About Beaches](https://gisetc.com/all-about-beaches/): It’s summertime and we’re all thinking about the beach - so we’re sharing two weeks of beach map and science resources for you to enjoy.
- [Independence Day Resources for Teachers](https://gisetc.com/independence-day-resources-for-teachers/): Happy Independence week from the team at GISetc!
- [The June Edition of Our GEOplaylist](https://gisetc.com/the-june-edition-of-our-geoplaylist/): Welcome to our GEOplaylist! All of us here at GISetc love music.
- [Road Trip Routes: Across the USA](https://gisetc.com/road-trip-routes-across-the-usa/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [Become a GIS Whisperer!](https://gisetc.com/become-a-gis-whisperer/): Don’t miss the chance to join our tribe of GIS Whisperers!
- [Summer Science Projects for Kids & Families](https://gisetc.com/summer-science-projects-for-kids-families/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [The GEOPORTER Report: May 2013](https://gisetc.com/the-geoporter-report-may-2013/): Each month we\'re bringing you a progress report from our Geoporter program.
- [Snack Tectonics](https://gisetc.com/snack-tectonics/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [PBS\' Guide to Summer Science Projects](https://gisetc.com/pbs-guide-to-summer-science-projects-3/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [PBS\' Guide to Summer Science Projects](https://gisetc.com/pbs-guide-to-summer-science-projects-2/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [PBS\' Guide to Summer Science Projects](https://gisetc.com/pbs-guide-to-summer-science-projects/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [Summer Reading: Mapping Places in Books](https://gisetc.com/summer-reading-mapping-places-in-books/): Happy summer from GISetc! We’re slowing down our blogging over the summer months, but keep checking back for shared fun summer resources, maps & activities!
- [Supporting Women Working in the Geospatial Sciences: Sharing What We’ve Done & Learned](https://gisetc.com/supporting-women-working-in-the-geospatial-sciences-sharing-what-weve-done-learned/): This webinar was originally published at Directions Magazine in 2023 and sponsored by TRELIS.
- [Geography in Everyday Life in 2022: How geography is embedded in our everyday lives](https://gisetc.com/geography-in-everyday-life-in-2022-how-geography-is-embedded-in-our-everyday-lives/): By Barbaree Duke and Dr.
- [Geography in Everyday Life - Part 2](https://gisetc.com/geography-in-everyday-life-part-2-2/): This article was originally published at Directions Magazine on March 21, 2001.
- [Geography in Everyday Life](https://gisetc.com/geography-in-everyday-life/): This article was originally published at Directions Magazine on December 21, 2000.
- [Going Places with GIS and Geography](https://gisetc.com/going-places-with-gis-and-geography/): Learning powered by geography, the thread that ties the world together, can take us places yet to be explored. Students need to understand how place and location impact humans and our environment from region to region as they move through life on a changing planet.
- [A More Realistic View of Our World](https://gisetc.com/a-more-realistic-view-of-our-world/)
- [GeoInspirations Podcast Series: Dr. Alex Philp - Envisioning the Future of GIS in Society](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-dr-alex-philp-envisioning-the-future-of-gis-in-society/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Jenna Leveille - The Land of Opportunity and Inspiration](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-jenna-leveille-the-land-of-opportunity-and-inspiration-2/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Jenna Leveille - The Land of Opportunity and Inspiration](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-jenna-leveille-the-land-of-opportunity-and-inspiration/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Anita Palmer - Changing the World through GIS Education](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-anita-palmer-changing-the-world-through-gis-education/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [GeoInspirations Podcast Series:  Harold Schuch -  Grounding GIS in Geomatics](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-harold-schuch-grounding-gis-in-geomatics/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Letisha and Garet Couch -  Supporting GIS Through Teamwork](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-letisha-and-garet-couch-supporting-gis-through-teamwork-2/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Letisha and Garet Couch -  Supporting GIS Through Teamwork](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-letisha-and-garet-couch-supporting-gis-through-teamwork/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Dr. Sarah Bednarz - Developing Spatial Habits of Mind for a Better World](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-dr-sarah-bednarz-developing-spatial-habits-of-mind-for-a-better-world-2/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Dr. Sarah Bednarz - Developing Spatial Habits of Mind for a Better World](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-dr-sarah-bednarz-developing-spatial-habits-of-mind-for-a-better-world/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: James Rattling Leaf - Responsibility, Reciprocity, Relevance, and Relationality](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-james-rattling-leaf-responsibility-reciprocity-relevance-and-relationality/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Sona Guliyeva - A Geospatial life opens new horizons](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-sona-guliyeva-a-geospatial-life-opens-new-horizons/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Eva Reid - Empowering the Geospatial Community, Empowering Women](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-eva-reid-empowering-the-geospatial-community-empowering-women/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Andres Abeyta - Helping People Learn Geotechnologies Online](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-andres-abeyta-helping-people-learn-geotechnologies-online/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Kendis Scharenbroich - Blazing a Trail as GIS President and CEO](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-kendis-scharenbroich-blazing-a-trail-as-gis-president-and-ceo/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Practical Advice for All Geospatial Professionals](https://gisetc.com/practical-advice-for-all-geospatial-professionals/): In 2016, Directions Magazine launched a series of articles dedicated to celebrating the innovations and impact of the men and women in the trenches of the geospatial industry.
- [Behind the Stacks: Libraries and Geospatial Technology](https://gisetc.com/behind-the-stacks-libraries-and-geospatial-technology/): Despite what you may have heard, libraries are not dead!
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: David Hansen - Explaining the Power of GIS, Simplified](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-david-hansen-explaining-the-power-of-gis-simplified/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Dr. John Wilson - Leading Spatial Sciences at USC and Beyond](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-dr-john-wilson-leading-spatial-sciences-at-usc-and-beyond/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [5 Reasons to Enhance Your Resume with StoryMaps](https://gisetc.com/5-reasons-to-enhance-your-resume-with-storymaps/): One of my favorite GIS-related tools is StoryMaps, and it felt like a good place to start with our Geospatial Community Blog here on LinkedIn.
- [A Pathway to Creativity and Dreams, Paved with Legos](https://gisetc.com/a-pathway-to-creativity-and-dreams-paved-with-legos/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Erika Klose –  Advancing the Boundaries of Education and Science through Technology](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-erika-klose-advancing-the-boundaries-of-education-and-science-through-technology/): Today, Dr. Joseph Kerski interviews Erika Klose from the West Virginia Department of Education.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Dr. Paulette Hasier - Curating Generations of Cartography](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-dr-paulette-hasier-curating-generations-of-cartography/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr. Paulette Hasier.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Bleys Focht - Reminding Us to Stay Open to New Ideas](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-bleys-focht-reminding-us-to-stay-open-to-new-ideas/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Why Cartography Still Matters](https://gisetc.com/why-cartography-still-matters/): In 2003, I published a study titled \"Profiling Cartographic Education in GIS Certificate Programs.\" Much has changed in the last 17 years.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Denise Powell - Reimagining what a university can be and do](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-denise-powell-reimagining-what-a-university-can-be-and-do/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Cool Cloud Tools We Learned about at Esri UC 2020](https://gisetc.com/cool-cloud-tools-we-learned-about-at-esri-uc-2020/)
- [Esri 2020 Virtual Conference](https://gisetc.com/esriuc2020/)
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Patricia Carbajales-Dale, Promoting GIS for Good](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-patricia-carbajales-dale-promoting-gis-for-good/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this podcast edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Beth Tulanowski– Breaking down GIS barriers from the University Library](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-beth-tulanowski-breaking-down-gis-barriers-from-the-university-library/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Podcast: Roundtable Discussion - Moving Your Higher Ed Instruction Online in a Hurry](https://gisetc.com/podcast-roundtable-discussion-moving-your-higher-ed-instruction-online-in-a-hurry/): When the world changes dramatically, it\'s important to lean on each other.
- [Geoinspirations: Mark Bushman -  Pushing the Boundaries Forward in Ecology, Education, and Beyond](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-mark-bushman-pushing-the-boundaries-forward-in-ecology-education-and-beyond/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Geoinspirations: Dr. Aikaterini Klonari - Geography was Born in Greece. It Nearly Died There, Too.](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-dr-aikaterini-klonari-geography-was-born-in-greece-it-nearly-died-there-too/): Editor’s note: The Ancient Greeks were the first to study Geography systematically.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Ashok & Ishu Wadwani - Implementing a passion for data, technology & education](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-ashok-ishu-wadwani-implementing-a-passion-for-data-technology-education/): Directions Magazine has been privileged to work with some of the most influential minds in the geospatial industry.
- [Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Jasmine Du - Helping Develop the Next Generation of Geospatial Tools](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-jasmine-du-helping-develop-the-next-generation-of-geospatial-tools/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations Podcast Series: Timothy Hawthorne - Making GIS accessible to the Masses](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-timothy-hawthorne-making-gis-accessible-to-the-masses/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Erik Bushland, Letting Students Fly](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-erik-bushland-letting-students-fly/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations Podcast Series: Stace Maples - Archaeologist, Librarian, Tattoo Artist & GIS Evangelist](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-stace-maples-archaeologist-librarian-tattoo-artist-gis-evangelist/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this podcast edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations Podcast Series: Allen Carroll, Storyteller and Environmental Champion](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-allen-carroll-storyteller-and-environmental-champion/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for the first podcast edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoEd \'19](https://gisetc.com/geoed19blog/)
- [GeoInspirations: Stacey Stark, Touching the Future](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-stacey-stark-touching-the-future/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations Podcast Series: Shannon White, Applying Spatial Thinking and Geospatial Tools for a Career Adventure](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-podcast-series-shannon-white-applying-spatial-thinking-and-geospatial-tools-for-a-career-adventure/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for the first podcast edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, talks with Dr.
- [2019 Texas Student Map Competion](https://gisetc.com/2019-texas-student-map-competion/): The Texas Alliance for Geographic Education and GISetc is co-coordinating the Esri the Texas Middle School and High School Map Competition this year.
- [GeoInspirations: David Neils - Nature Champion, Career Connector](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-david-neils-nature-champion-career-connector/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Summer 2019 GeoTech Center Workshops](https://gisetc.com/summer-2019-geotech-center-workshops/): The GeoTech Center has a variety of workshops for Summer 2019. Learn more about them!
- [GeoInspirations: Lauri Sohl - Enabling a Smart City, and Giving Back to the Community](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-lauri-sohl-enabling-a-smart-city-and-giving-back-to-the-community-2/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Lauri Sohl - Enabling a Smart City, and Giving Back to the Community](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-lauri-sohl-enabling-a-smart-city-and-giving-back-to-the-community/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Karl Donert - Geography Ambassador to the World](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-karl-donert-geography-ambassador-to-the-world/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Peggy McKillip - Changing the World One Tree at a Time](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-peggy-mckillip-changing-the-world-one-tree-at-a-time/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Geoinspirations: Diana Ter-Ghazaryan - Weaving Together the Humanistic and Cartographic](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-diana-ter-ghazaryan-weaving-together-the-humanistic-and-cartographic/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Michelle LeBlanc – GeoEducation from the Library to the Community](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-michelle-leblanc-geoeducation-from-the-library-to-the-community/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Alastair Bonnett - Defining Geography Beyond the Map](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-alastair-bonnett-defining-geography-beyond-the-map/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Pakrad Balabanian - Geospatial Education Champion for the Middle East](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-pakrad-balabanian-geospatial-education-champion-for-the-middle-east/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Dr. Josef Strobl – Moving the Frontiers of GIScience Forward](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-dr-josef-strobl-moving-the-frontiers-of-giscience-forward/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Jim Castagneri — Counting on Census Geography](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-jim-castagneri-counting-on-census-geography/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Ken Smith’s Passion for Area Research and Retail Analytics](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-ken-smiths-passion-for-area-research-and-retail-analytics/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Michelle Ellington—Making efficiency a priority](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-michelle-ellington-making-efficiency-a-priority/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Summer 2018 Workshops](https://gisetc.com/summer-2018-workshops/): We hope the hints of spring are finding you. We\'re delivering a little summer dreaming for you this month.
- [GeoInspirations: Breece Robertson - Making a Positive Difference on Protected Lands](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-breece-robertson-making-a-positive-difference-on-protected-lands/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Can Geospatial Smartness Be Learned, Taught, and Measured?](https://gisetc.com/can-geospatial-smartness-be-learned-taught-and-measured/): What does it mean to be geospatially smart?
- [GeoInspirations: Judy Mraz - Promoting Geography Education in the Southern Hemisphere and Beyond](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-judy-mraz-promoting-geography-education-in-the-southern-hemisphere-and-beyond-2/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Judy Mraz - Promoting Geography Education in the Southern Hemisphere and Beyond](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-judy-mraz-promoting-geography-education-in-the-southern-hemisphere-and-beyond/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [TCEA 2018](https://gisetc.com/tcea-2018/)
- [Finding Spatial Data - It Takes a Village](https://gisetc.com/finding-spatial-data-it-takes-a-village/): What do you do when you need data?
- [GeoInspirations:  Dr. Lawrence Joseph - Applying Geography for Better Business](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-dr-lawrence-joseph-applying-geography-for-better-business/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr.
- [GeoInspirations:  Ann Fritz - Collaborations in the Field and Across Disciplinary Boundaries](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-ann-fritz-collaborations-in-the-field-and-across-disciplinary-boundaries/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today, our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Barry Martinez - Overcoming the Past for a Bright Future in GIS](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-barry-martinez-overcoming-the-past-for-a-bright-future-in-gis-2/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations, a column celebrating the work of geography’s most influential professionals.
- [GeoInspirations: Barry Martinez - Overcoming the Past for a Bright Future in GIS](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-barry-martinez-overcoming-the-past-for-a-bright-future-in-gis/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations, a column celebrating the work of geography’s most influential professionals.
- [GeoInspirations: Dr. Maria Luisa de Lázaro y Torres on Co-founding Atlas Digital Escolar and Improving Distance Learning](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-dr-maria-luisa-de-lazaro-y-torres-on-co-founding-atlas-digital-escolar-and-improving-distance-learning/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today, our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Dr. Maria Luisa de Lázaro y Torres on Co-founding Atlas Digital Escolar and Improving Distance Learning(Espanol)](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-dr-maria-luisa-de-lazaro-y-torres-on-co-founding-atlas-digital-escolar-and-improving-distance-learningespanol/): Preguntas de Dr.
- [Elementary Geospatial Resources](https://gisetc.com/elementaryresources/): Check the following resources out for some Elementary School fun!
- [GeoInspirations: Nathan Heazlewood - GIS is benefiting the planet, enriching career paths, and…is Cool!](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-nathan-heazlewood-gis-is-benefiting-the-planet-enriching-career-paths-andis-cool/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Dennis Hunink - Educator, Developer, Innovator](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-dennis-hunink-educator-developer-innovator/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Mr.
- [NCGE 2017](https://gisetc.com/ncge-2017-2/): Catch up on what you missed in the lab with Anita and Tom.
- [NCGE 2017](https://gisetc.com/ncge-2017/): Catch up on what you missed in the lab with Anita and Tom.
- [GeoInspirations: Susan DeMar -  Positive Role Model, Department Champion](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-susan-demar-positive-role-model-department-champion/): Editor’s Note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [Esri EdUC and UC 2017](https://gisetc.com/educ2017-2/): We have new products, fun buttons and selfie signs ready(especially for our T3Gers)!
- [Esri EdUC and UC 2017](https://gisetc.com/educ2017/): We have new products, fun buttons and selfie signs ready(especially for our T3Gers)!
- [Need Data? Successful Geospatial Data Searching Strategies](https://gisetc.com/need-data-successful-geospatial-data-searching-strategies-2/): You need geospatial data to do anything with GIS. Data is the fuel for all GIS-based projects.
- [Need Data? Successful Geospatial Data Searching Strategies](https://gisetc.com/need-data-successful-geospatial-data-searching-strategies/): You need geospatial data to do anything with GIS. Data is the fuel for all GIS-based projects.
- [GeoInspirations: Brett Lucas - Many Hats, Single Focus](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-brett-lucas-many-hats-single-focus-2/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today, our distinguished columnist, Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Brett Lucas - Many Hats, Single Focus](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-brett-lucas-many-hats-single-focus/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today, our distinguished columnist, Dr.
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- [GeoInspirations:  Amy Work - Connecting People, Communities, Geotechnology, and the Environment](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-amy-work-connecting-people-communities-geotechnology-and-the-environment/): Editor’s note: Welcome back to our GeoInspirations series,in which our distinguished guest columnist,Dr.
- [GeoInspirations: Randy Raymond, Bringing schools & communities together through meaningful GIS projects](https://gisetc.com/geoinspirations-randy-raymond-bringing-schools-communities-together-through-meaningful-gis-projects/): Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this edition of GeoInspirations. Today Dr.
- [Pearl Harbor Day - 75th Anniversary “Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future”](https://gisetc.com/pearl-harbor-75/): December 7, 2016, is the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. GISetc has gathered up a short list of powerful resources to introduce this topic to your students.
- [Don't reinvent the map if you don\'t have to...](https://gisetc.com/dont-reinvent-the-map-if-you-dont-have-to-3/): Need some ready-to-use maps for teaching Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer?
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