by Barbaree | Feb 18, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
The current issue of Wired Magazine shared this fascinating map of the flow of organized crime around the globe. Click here for a closer look at the map and to read the accompanying article.
by Barbaree | Feb 16, 2011 | Conferences, Current Training, GIS Happenings, Our Blog, Past Training, Presentation & Conference Archives
Now in our 95th year, NCGE continues to both promote and celebrate geographic teaching and learning. Their activities include conducting and gathering research, producing journals and other geography publications, developing curricular resources at the K-12 and...
by Barbaree | Feb 14, 2011 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Happy Valentines Day! We wanted to share the website GEO-Greeting, which can send any message you choose written in buildings from satellite images. As you type the letters for your message in, the map will show you the global position of the buildings it is using to...
by Barbaree | Feb 9, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
We recently ran across this fascinating study on how our eyes read maps on the blog for EYE Magazine. It compares regular octolinearity to new all-curves map models and how our eyes read and decipher information along the lines of a map. An all-curves map smoothes...
by Barbaree | Feb 7, 2011 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
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. Whatever you call it, it\’s a mess outside. SnomgeddonCleanUp.com (running in NYC and Boston) built websites as a simple...
by Barbaree | Feb 4, 2011 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
A big thanks to our friends at ESRI for putting this fascinating map together. Use this as a resource to discuss current events in Egypt with your students and give them a geographic context. This map pulls in social media related to the protests that have occurred in...
by Barbaree | Feb 3, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Cast your vote for who you want to win the Super Bowl on this fun, interactive map from ESRI!
by Barbaree | Feb 2, 2011 | Free Resources, Our Blog
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...
by Barbaree | Jan 28, 2011 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Our friend Wing Cheung at Palomar College in Southern California sent us these resources. Palomar promotes the learning outcomes necessary for their students to contribute as individuals and global citizens to live responsibly, effectively, and creatively in an...
by Barbaree | Jan 25, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Roger and Anita Palmer of GISetc were at the Australian Geographic Teacher Association (AGTA) in Adelaide during the Brisbane flooding. We were with many teachers from the Brisbane area, and certainly, most teachers who were at AGTA had friends and relatives who lived...
by Barbaree | Dec 31, 2010 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
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. Wishing you a happy and *social* 2011! \”Is social media a fad or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial...
by Barbaree | Nov 22, 2010 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
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. This is a wonderful community of forward thinking, hard working, and dedicated community members who...
by Barbaree | Nov 17, 2010 | Free Resources, GIS Day, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Sounds festive, don\’t you think? GIS Day is held each year in the third week of November, on the Wednesday during Geography Awareness Week, a geographic literacy initiative sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Watch the GIS Day video from...
by Barbaree | Nov 16, 2010 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
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...
by Barbaree | Nov 16, 2010 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Last week we released our first holiday video, featuring Carl the navigational elf: \”I\’m telling you Santa, we really need a better routing solution.\” Then we launched our W.W.C.S. (What Will Carl Say) contest – where you can put the words in...
by Barbaree | Nov 15, 2010 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
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. This is also a great video...
by Barbaree | Nov 12, 2010 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Google Maps and Google Earth is a wonderful tool that has brought mapping and geography back into the public eye in a big way. I do believe that using the right tool for the right job should be our mantra. In this particular case, in our humble opinion, using a GIS...
by Barbaree | Nov 9, 2010 | Our Blog, Press & Testimonials
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...
by Barbaree | Nov 7, 2010 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
We’re doing a fun series of holiday videos featuring Santa & Carl, the navigational elf. Tune in every week to GISetc TV. We’re having a contest to see what Carl will say every week. Go to our facebook page to tell us your clever ideas and it could be featured on...
by Barbaree | Sep 16, 2010 | Current Training, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
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. In the morning, the students were led on a GPS tour of the coffee plantation at the Buena Vista Hotel...
