Latest Contributions by ScottFreburg1

Minnesota is IN. Working on it now. Our workshops will be followed up with specialized training using Zoom. Probably 3-4 additional summer and fall 2019. ... View more

Nice Going Allison! I like the direction they are heading at your school. I totally agree on the Admin role not being a teacher, although Tech folks generally are pretty swamped as well. have you looked at Single Sign-On? Check out Tom Baker's article (Using Google G Suite Single Sign-On for user management in ArcGIS Online). I also tweeted this article @SFreburgGIS. Keep rockin!! ... View more

Awesome work Julie. based on your results we may try this in Minnesota. We have done F2F for 4 years and over 70 workshops, but the time has come to try and reach more than the 10-30 that we can get into a F2F session. We may be reaching out to you for some advice as we are planning for summer 2019. Cheers, ... View more

You are a ROCKSTAR Shana! Thanks for all of your Story map workshops and for helping develop the MN geoinquiries. They will be awesome.... ... View more

Keep rocking Susan!! Lewistown is where my relatives emigrated from Sweden. I still have relatives outside Grass Range and Winnett. My grand-parents are buried in the Lewistown cemetery. I have visited many times. So what you are doing makes my heart swell just a little bigger. I worked for the MT-DNR for 4 years and was part of the first MT GIS statewide conference. I know the GIS folks in MT would love to geomentor. Give them a shout. Keep up the awesome work, and sharing with all of us. ... View more

Nice job Phillip. Keep connecting!! Is there a statewide GIS association in SC? If so, perhaps go to them and see if any of the GIS members would be willing to geomentor. Perhaps they are like Minnesota and want to go further and actually fund outreach, training and workshops. Keep up the momentum!! ... View more

Minnesota K12 GIS is continuing to amaze me! October 3, 2018 we had our 4th Educator Day, held annually the day before the state's GIS conference. We had 82 teachers, including 7 students. Thank you Charlie for coming to instruct more advanced AGO topics. The teachers are hungry for these advanced sessions. Some numbers at a glance: 2014 statewide AGO licenses - around 5 to 7 2018 Statewide AGO Licenses - almost 300 Our 1st Educator Day in october 2015 - 55 teachers with 42 in the introductory classes Our 4th Educator Day October 2018 - 74 teachers and 7 students with 55 in the intermediate and advanced sessions Not only are teachers taking workshops and training sessions put on by MN Dept. of Education and MN GIS/LIS Consortium, they are taking it, practicing, using in their classrooms and coming back for more advanced sessions. For Minnesota, our movie terminology really applies to present day, "If you build it they will come!" Other items of note: 1. Two Minnesota Geoinquiries are complete with six more to be finished by Spring, 2019. We will share this on GeoNet in case other instructors around the US would like to use them. 2. Additional Geoinquiries are being discussed for the near future. 3. Our Educator Day geo-mentor matchup with teachers was a success. All 12 of the teachers that were matched with GIS professionals have made contact. This will be a continuing mentorship tool. 4. Workshops and training will continue into 2019 for the 5th year! 5. MN GIS/LIS Consortium and MAGE are partnering to continue MAGE's past success at the University of MN Media Lab. 6. Work is continuing on a one-stop-shop website for teachers in Minnesota. A place where they can get training material, workshop and training dates and signup, curriculum material, teacher AND student success videos and much more! ... View more

Lyn is absolutely fantastic. I met her at the 2014 T3G in Redlands and have enjoyed a few of her classes and books since. I have even called her from MN when I had a particular question that I knew she had an answer. Congratulations Lyn on a wonderful career. You deserve everything that the future holds! ... View more

Thank you Allison for the response. A short time after posting I found out about the Admin role, but I didn't know that a level of 1 only supported Viewer. Good to know and understand. Thanks for the link as well. ... View more

Having a statewide GIS contest in MN has been one of the greatest experiences in my 30+ years in GIS. Minnesota started in 2016 on a whim and had over 220 students submit. In 2017/2018 we had another 300+ kids submit maps. I recently looked back at the 10 winning maps from 2016 (5-middle, 5-high) and compared them to the 10 winning maps from 2018. In just 3 years the results were amazing. Spatial Analysis was utilized on all of them, the details pages had photos and GIS data referenced. In 2016 there was almost none of it. This is where K12 GIS workshops enter the picture. When you provide the training, it eventually filters down to the student and you CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT! I can almost hear the brain wattage turning over as kids think creatively on what they are going to research and submit in 2019. Let's do this!! #mngisproud‌ Charlie Fitzpatrick‌ K12 Instruction‌ ... View more

Congratulations to all the winners AND all students competing. ALL are winners in my book because they did research and critically thought through a project, as well as learning a new technology that will benefit them for the rest of their lives! Of course I am certainly mngisproud‌. We in Minnesota are certainly proud of our high school winner and her rock star teacher, Gina Holinday! Gina has certainly set the bar high for everyone. This makes me even more excited for our FREE summer GIS workshops for teachers and Educator Day at Duluth this fall. Perhaps one of them will be next! #esri educ‌ GeoMentors‌  ... View more

I totally agree. Nicely written. I am a GIS coordinator that works with Minnesota teachers and students to use GIS. I have been a part of, or coordinated, more than one hundred workshops. Fortunately for K-12 teachers they do not have to worry about the credits, but if Esri ever makes that a reality they will stop using quickly. It is confusing for those folks and I am glad I don't have to spend a couple hours every week trying to explain, or point them to documentation that they don't want to read because of their everyday workload. When GIS is not your main business purpose, these types of things will always remain confusing. ... View more

Congratulations to ALL participants. Here in Minnesota we are so proud of all 100+ students that entered our Minnesota map competition. 5 middle school and 5 high school winners received $100 Amazon cards. We are especially proud of Teacher Gina Hollinday (Duluth Denfeld) and student Alyssa Isaacson for her winning high school entry in Esri's National Competition. I will be excited to see them both out at EdUC!! I too hope to see ALL state's getting involved. It is all about collaboration. Get your state GIS professionals involved in mentoring, as well as your GIS business partners. ... View more