A total of 490 students plus teachers from 14 middle and high schools surrounding Corpus Christi, Texas, were hosted at Texas A&M by the University and Del Mar College on GIS Day. The City and local users of GIS gave presentations and demonstrated how their community is using GIS. ESRI showed ArcGIS Explorer and the students found their campus ...

  If you've not been following along on the GIS Education Community blog be sure to check out George Dailey's series covering National Parks and ArcGIS Explorer. The 10-part post was inspired by the PBS special The National Parks: America's Best Idea and not only provides a great tour of parks, but also demonstrates how the unique ...

Mapping corn mazes using ArcGIS Explorer is one of the latest posts found on the GIS Education Community Blog. Written by ESRI education manager Joseph Kerski, the post covers adding data by importing text files to create an Explorer map showing the spatial distribution of corn mazes throughout the US, and then looking at the relationship of where ...

George Dailey, ESRI Education Program manager, has published Part 2 and Part 3 of his continuing series on exploring America's National Parks using ArcGIS Explorer. You can check them out on the GIS Education Community blog.  

In conjunction with the new PBS National Parks series, George Dailey's My National Parks and ArcGIS Explorer blog series begins today. Yesterday we posted about how to add Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful Web cam to your Explorer map, and we'll be following along with additional National Park topics.

A recent GIS Education Community blog post details a downloadable ArcGIS Explorer project with information on the ongoing California wildfires, including a live Mt. Wilson Web cam showing the current conditions.

ESRI education manager Joseph Kerski recently explained how he looks at the spatial distribution of class participants in a recent blog post on the GIS Education Community blog. The post explains how Excel spreadsheets are used to map the locations of students using Explorer's File Import capabilities.

There have been a few posts on the GIS Education Community blog that we think you'll find interesting.  In the most recent post George Dailey, ESRI Education Manager, talks about mapping recycling sites with ArcGIS Explorer, and uses a list of recycling locations obtained from the City of Dallas Sanitation Services along with ...

There been a couple of post on the GIS Education Community Blog using Explorer for visualizing GPS tracks taken while paragliding. The first post uses data from a flight from Mount Herman, near Colorado Springs. The second post shows what seems to be a daring glide from the Alyeska Ski Resort near the Cook Inlet in ...

ESRI's User Conference has grown into several concurrent conferences in one. One of the intra-conferences that started today is the Education User Conference. Here's a look at some of the Explorer highlights from today's opening presentation. Derrick Burke showed some of the interesting ways Explorer can be used by Educators. The theme ...