Education Blog - Page 2

Can you imagine if a university limited the use of MS Excel to business majors? What if licenses of SPSS were only provided to statistics majors? While GIS software has its roots in geography, its wide-ranging application demonstrates clearly how students and faculty across institutions should have access...

With the vast array of products and updates, it’s even hard for Esri staff to stay on top of the latest enhancements!

Here is a quick recap and a list of references to get you to some of the latest enhancements/updates that are key for educators...

"It says 'Esri access not enabled.' Wait ... what? What happened?"

Quick synopsis and current status of the 2021 ArcGIS Online Competition for US High School and Middle School Students.

The "Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS" (aka T3G) community is a personal learning network (PLN) for educators who believe in the power of GIS.

See who is in and who is not yet in the 2021 ArcGIS Online Competition for US HS+MS Students, and see how to help all states participate.

If you have activated your Schools Mapping Software Bundle, use these resources as a best practice for getting your Organization up and running. Email k12schools@esri.com with any additional questions.

We are fortunate at Esri to have a wide array of business partners that are helping us achieve a more sustainable and resilient planet.  One of these business partners is EarthViews.  EarthViews vision is to connect people to critically important aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. EarthViews works with land, water managers and others to help achieve this mission.  To accomplish EarthViews' vision, they have developed technology to bring waterways to the desktop, mobile or VR device via easy-to-use, publicly available, 360 interactive virtual tours. These reality based maps have many uses for waterway safety, recreation, science, and conservation.

Does 7th grade make a difference in one's life? It sure did for Nate Ebel, being introduced to exploring data and solving problems with GIS.

Quick info on the 2021 ArcGIS Online Competition for US High School and Middle School Students