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GIS Workshops at the National Conference on Geography Education

Investigate the Caribbean, GeoTag Your Photographs, Analyze Hurricanes, and More in the GIS Workshops at the National Conference on Geography Education Come explore your community, region, and world using GIS in a series of hands-on workshops at the upcoming Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 3:58 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

AGX Blog: Live GPS task now available from ArcScripts

From the ArcGIS Explorer Team blog : A Live GPS task, written by Edan Cain of the ArcGIS Explorer team, has recently been posted on ArcScripts. You can download it directly from the ArcGIS Explorer section of ArcScripts , or by choosing ArcScripts from Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 7:07 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Mapping Field Data and Hyperlinking Ground Images in ArcGIS Explorer

I recently conducted an inservice workshop for secondary-level instructors here at ESRI in Broomfield, Colorado. I find that including GIS and GPS technologies in the framework of inquiry-based lessons fits quite well with the goal of modeling how to Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 2:47 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Fun With GIS, Using AEJEE: #3, Bringing GPS Data into AEJEE

Recently, I started a "Fun With GIS" series, using ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE ), ESRI's free, downloadable, dual platform (Win/Mac), lightweight GIS tool. This week, we'll do what a lot of teachers, students, parents, families, and Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 2:07 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Essays on Geography and GIS

Essays on Geography and GIS is a compilation of best practices in a free electronic book (in PDF) from ESRI. Articles include: What Is GIS? What Holds Us Together Exploration in the Age of Digital Earth Dynamics GIS: Recognizing the Dynamic Nature of Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:29 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Learn How to Use GIS in Your Instruction at the 2008 National Conference on Geography Education

The National Conference on Geography Education provides an excellent means of networking with over 600 colleagues at primary, secondary, and university levels, as well as those in government and industry. ESRI staff and some of our colleagues are teaching Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 2:00 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Mapping An Airline Route

After boarding an airplane after the National Science Teachers Association’s annual convention, I recorded the position of the aircraft as it flew along on my GPS receiver. I held the GPS at the window, and before we landed, I saved the positions it automatically Read More...
Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 2:18 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Mapping A Lunchtime Walkabout in ArcWeb Explorer

In one of my blog entries, I discussed the way I save my lunchtime walking course at the ESRI Denver office as a saved track on my GPS receiver. What is the easiest way I can map this course? The easiest way is to use a web-based, Flash-enabled GIS on Read More...
Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 2:29 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Visualizing GPS Waypoints and Tracks in a GIS

A GIS is perfect for representing and exploring your field data associated with specific locations on the Earth’s surface gathered with a GPS receiver. GPS coordinates are typically stored as waypoints, tracks, and routes. Waypoints are locations that Read More...
Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 2:50 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Bringing GPS Data into AEJEE

Lot of folks work with GPS units to gather data, then wonder how to make a map with it. ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) , a free downloadable intro GIS package for Windows and MacOSX, is able to convert text files (either tab-delimited Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 2:04 AM by tbaker | 1 Comments
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Measuring the Circumference of the Earth Using GPS

http://gis.esri.com/industries/education/arclessons/search_results.cfm?id=300 Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician, geographer, and astronomer who lived from 276 to 194 BC. He was the first known person to accurately measure the circumference of the Read More...
Posted Friday, September 28, 2007 7:12 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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GIS and GPS: A More Perfect Union

A growing number of educators are using GIS to teach with--everything from volcanoes to watersheds to population to trade balances. Concurrently, a growing number of educators are also using GPS to teach with, gathering and using field data--anything Read More...
Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 7:08 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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