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If you were not able to join me for my Live Webcast on GIS Day! Maps, Apps, Music:  A mappy time!  The story map I created for the event, a resources story map, and the recordings are now available. 

Esri Demographics can simplify and enhance teaching, research, advance analyses, and enhance decision-making across university departments. Following is the list of resources related to Esri Demographics, how to access, use and learn about it.

Puzzles pique our curiosity, feed our need to explore, and on occasion, have us pulling out our hair.  For the GIS teacher or student, “GIS puzzles” will check all these boxes – and more.

Three new e-learning resources about Imagery and Remote Sensing are available on Esri Academy.

I was recently asked by a secondary school to give a presentation for a capstone course for seniors focused on what research is, why it matters, and how students can embrace it.  To support this presentation, I created a story map that you are welcome to use wholly or in part for your own secondary or university courses and students.  

Within academia, drone solutions are proving to be valuable data sources for teaching, research, and campus operations. Drones can produce many useful 2D (orthophotos, dynamic mosaics, and elevation products) and 3D (point clouds and textured meshes) products. They are widely used as inputs for raster analysis. 

Find here list of resources to learning, teaching, and research using ArcGIS Drone2Map and Site Scan of ArcGIS

(Updated 4/4/2024)

The ArcGIS Exhibit Instant App can be very useful in instruction. It can be easily set up from a web map with a set of bookmarks and fosters focused attention on specific themes or regions with each as a separate "frame".   This essay features two examples to help you consider the kinds of things you and your students might do with the ArcGIS Exhibit Instant App.

A new introduction to GIS open short course offers educators and students with a hands-on set of 10 engaging activities covering a variety of themes and scales.  The 10 activities are offered in a story map format so the instructions and the interactive web maps can be viewed side-by-side for rapid skill building and understanding.  The activities are aimed at university faculty and students new to GIS, but can be used at the secondary level as well.  It is my hope that these activities are useful and instructive and help you build skills and confidence in inquiry and problem solving with GIS. 

This year 22 awesome university students from around the world were winners of the Esri Young Scholar Award. Many of them attended the International Users Conference in San Diego where they collected their award and met Jack Dangermond and many others of the more than 10000 attendees. Have a look at a StoryMap to see more about the Scholars and their projects.  

How can Geographic Information Systems (GIS) be effectively woven into a university environmental sciences program?  This example represents ways in which GIS can help students put their environmental interests into action by fostering skills in data collection, mapping, analysis, and communication in tandem with an ethic of caring for and protecting the water, air, soil, plants, animals, and ecosystems of Planet Earth and the people who dwell on it.