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Take Your Students on a Virtual Field Trip Through StoryMaps
Making virtual field trips (VFTs) with ArcGIS StoryMaps is a way teachers can share their expertise, research, and experience with students and their communities. Making VFTs can also be an assignment for students to develop and demonstrate their knowledge and science communication skills to potential employers. That is…
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University of South Carolina Career Center Leads the Way in Using ArcGIS Dashboards & ArcGIS StoryMaps
The Challenge: We Had the Data, But Not the Story When I first started in my role as the Associate Director for Employer Relations, I knew one thing: we were doing great work. Every day, we were helping students reach important milestones, build career readiness, secure internships, and launch meaningful careers. We had…
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Introducing a new classroom module to teach GIS
Often when introducing GIS to teachers, sharing the value of maps and the potential career impacts for their students, their response is "OK how do I bring this to my students?" The free, online, asynchronous GIS I Module is the answer to that question - and this hands-on GIS curriculum is now available! The GIS I Module,…
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Vibecoding a Real-Time Air Quality Observatory for Schools
I am Alexandros Pantazis, a project manager who often works with GIS and remote sensing on climate and environmental projects in Greece. A few months ago, while still working in the Research and Development department of Ellinogermaniki Agogi (a private school in Athens, Greece), I built a Web GIS app that lets schools in…
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Virtual Workshop - ArcGIS Governance in Higher Education
Colleagues, For those of you interested - we would like to invite you to a virtual event, focused on ArcGIS Governance in Higher Education. ArcGIS is an enterprise technology and as such, it requires a governance approach that includes policies and guidelines related to access, availability, lifecycle management of users…
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University of Florida's ArcGIS Governance Journey: Building a Right-Sized Platform for a Growing Community
This governance journey example is shaped and shared by Sam Palmer, Assistant Scholar, GeoPlan Center at the University of Florida. Thanks to Sam and the University of Florida team for sharing their experiences and lessons learned. The Challenge The University of Florida has thousands of students, faculty, and staff who…
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Building a STEM and GIS Learning Ecosystem Under Constraint: A Field Experience from Ukraine
When GIS Enters the Classroom I teach in a public school in the Odesa region of Ukraine. In recent years, education here has been shaped by constant tension between stability and disruption. Under these conditions, schools tend to rely on familiar approaches—not because they are necessarily optimal, but because they…
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Stay Updated: List of July 2026 - Technical highlights & Resources from Esri
Esri consistently releases new contents, updates, and resources related to their products, solutions, apps, and applications, as well as best practices, success stories, recorded webinars, and more. Although these resources are posted in various locations, they can be difficult to find. This blog provides a comprehensive…
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Esri Tutorials Spotlight: Spatial Analysis
Spatial analysis is used for more than just combining and summarizing data. Using ArcGIS, you have the tools to map, analyze, and interpret geographic data, so that you can develop solutions to complex spatial questions. If you're a student and curious to build your knowledge and skills on spatial analysis, Esri Tutorials…
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Reset all user credits, transfer Experience Builder app to a new organization, delete all users... - Building Administrative Scripts in ArcGIS Online
There are a lot of tasks that administrators need to deal with in ArcGIS Online related to users. Adding licenses, updating credits, deleting users, etc. Many of these actions can be completed through the UI, but when you are trying to manage hundreds or thousands of users, a lot of those actions can be really tedious. The…
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Antipodes for Learners
Antipodes ar two places not he opposite side of Earth - directly across from each other. When teaching with antipodes, consider these quick possibilities for fun, engaging learning. Go to app. » Test the "dig to China" myth often uttered in the United States. Have students predict where a tunnel from their hometown would…
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Labor Day Classroom Ideas for Teachers: Exploring Labor, CTE, and the Future of Work
In the U.S., Labor Day offers teachers a useful opportunity to move beyond the holiday itself and explore a much bigger question: How has work changed—and where is it going next? GIS provides an especially effective way to investigate that question because work has always had a geography. Industries develop in particular…
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Enterprise GIS Has Arrived, but Presents a Recruitment Challenge
A thought piece by: Joseph Kerski | Geographer | Joseph Kerski LLC and Tony Spicci | Executive Director | GIS Certification Institute For many years, GIS was a rather niche technology used by a few people in an organization such as a county government. When a person arrived at the county courthouse and made inquiries, the…
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Interactive “geo” tools for APHG teachers (first quarter)
We’ve been exploring some interactive tools and models for use in human geography and APHG classrooms. Take a look at this handful of apps and models to source for the first quarter of classroom instruction. “Reprojector” (APHG Unit 1): lets students reshape the world with a click — choose from thirteen map projections,…
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Webinar: Introducing the GIS I Module for High School Classrooms
Bring GIS Into Your Classroom with the Free GIS I Module GIS is a valuable skill across a wide range of industries, and educators can play an important role in helping students discover its possibilities. But introducing GIS into the classroom can feel challenging, especially for teachers who don't have prior experience…
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Join Esri Schools at NCGE
The Esri Schools team is headed to Richmond, Virginia, October 16–18, for the annual meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE). The conference will bring geography educators, researchers, and education leaders together for three days of learning, sharing, and exploring new approaches to geography…
