Geography in Everyday Life in 2022: How geography is embedded in our everyday lives
By Barbaree Duke and Dr. Joseph Kerski This article was originally published at Directions Magazine on November 16, 2022. In December 2000, Dr. R. Golledge penned an article for Directions Magazine called, “Geography in Everyday Life.” It continues to be one of the...
Geography in Everyday Life – Part 2
By Reginald Golledge This article was originally published at Directions Magazine on March 21, 2001. There are two "geographies" of everyday life. One represents the "incidental" (or "naïve") geographic knowledge that we acquire as we pursue our episodic activities....
Geography in Everyday Life
By Dr. Reginal Golledge This article was originally published at Directions Magazine on December 21, 2000. Many geographers today teach and research about concepts that are relevant to everyday life. This geographic knowledge enables us to understand the things we do...
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
Cool Cloud Tools We Learned about at Esri UC 2020
https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-quickcapture/overviewhttps://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-quickcapture/overviewhttps://storymaps-classic.arcgis.com/en/https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-storymaps/overviewhttps://www.esri.com...
Esri 2020 Virtual Conference
Think outside the box! Don't miss our virtual booth at the 2020 Esri International User Conference Expo!
GeoEd ’19
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. This year's theme is Texas. Your Story Map or web app must focus on a concept, issue, or event in Texas. Below are a...
Summer 2019 GeoTech Center Workshops
The GeoTech Center has a variety of workshops for Summer 2019. Learn more about them! The National Center for Geospatial Excellence (GeoTech Center) is gearing up for this year’s GeoEd Workshops in June 2019. They offer a variety of geospatial...
Summer 2018 Workshops
We hope the hints of spring are finding you. We're delivering a little summer dreaming for you this month. Start planning now for some great geospatial workshop experiences around the US. Each of the workshops has a different focus and require different levels of...
TCEA 2018
Monday - Feb. 5 at 11:30a-2:30p Tuesday- Feb. 6 at 3:30-5p
Elementary Geospatial Resources
Check the following resources out for some Elementary School fun! Undercover Mapper www.gisetc.com/undercovermapper - (Free) Our new (free) Undercover Mapper series introduces students to an interactive experience with ArcGIS Online in a fun yet...
NCGE 2017
Catch up on what you missed in the lab with Anita and Tom. (US_World_History_Lab - pdf) Barbaree's presentations are online: Peace and War: Visualizing the Geography of War in Literature and History Teaching Geography across the Core Using Story Maps in Student...
Esri EdUC and UC 2017
We have new products, fun buttons and selfie signs ready(especially for our T3Gers)! Barbaree, Anita and Roger will be around the event sharing our work with geoinquiries and more. We have two new books and ArcGIS online resources for you!
Online courses worth a look
Well, February is waning and March is next week! Where does the time go? Within the perpetual motion of our days, we have run into a few more new materials to pass along to you. Don’t let the title of these resources fool you! Any educator who is involved in ArcGIS...
TCEA 2017
Learn about online mapping for your classroom! Tuesday, Feb. 7th, 9:00am, Poster Pavilion, “Where, Why, Who, What, How: Data and Online Mapping” Wednesday, Feb. 8th at 3:30pm, Room 8AB, “We All Have a Story to Share: Engage and Inspire All” Visit the Esri Booth....
Climate Resources worth a look
As January wanes, there is no waning of amazing resources becoming available. This week we have a trilogy of them for your use in your classrooms. A beautifully created, and poignant, Story Map has been published, Climate Migrants. It is an exemplar of how to teach...
Pearl Harbor Day – 75th Anniversary “Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future”
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. Even if you are not teaching this material in your classroom, we think we all will benefit from a visit to...
Don’t reinvent the map if you don’t have to…
Need some ready-to-use maps for teaching Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer? Looking for ways to make history approachable and current? Recently, we debuted our GeoInquiries page. Some of you might be thinking, “Why make a page of stuff that’s in another place?!” We shared one...
GIS Day 2016: Fight Evil…Make Maps
We believe that Earth is a beautiful planet. As we celebrate GIS Day around the world, many students and professionals alike will be sharing amazing data visualizations, helpful solutions to important issues, and telling stories with geography. Many of you are...
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! Did you know that they are not the same in every city and state? Please participate by adding a pic of you and/or your election...
Maps for the light
We admit to having a mapping problem. We also admit to a growing collection of cool things to do with paper maps. Add this one to your list of fun weekend craft projects, a lamp shade! Read all about it over at the IKEA Hackers...
Esri Education GIS Conference 2016
Please visit with us Saturday and Sunday in the EdUC Exhibit hall! Come see us! Story Maps and Web Mapping as Learning Tools Saturday, June 25, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Coronado GeoInquiries for Earth Science, Saturday, June 25, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Mission Hills GeoInquiries...
2016 ESC 7 Summit
Presenters Roger and Anita Palmer World History GeoInquiry http://education.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=196f6340bd0541a09f772d0def74ddad Map http://esriurl.com/enviroGeoinquiry14...
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. Stop by the booth and chat with us! Integrative 3-D Learning Through Investigating Bird Species Richness with...
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. (Yes, FREE! No catch...really!) Join the TCEA GEOSIG and friends at one of these presentations during the annual...
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. We did find some resources online that might be helpful.Biodiversity Mapping has a nice collection that's easy to view. http://www.biodiversitymapping.org/ A good...
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. We also wanted to point you to some great map resources. Check out the geography of Irish surnames, take an aerial tour of Dublin or get the top 10...
#GISedSelfie Fun from Esri EdUC
Thanks for stopping by and spreading the joy of all things geo!