I'm a teacher who is developing curriculum and professional development to empower teachers and students to improve test scores and critical thinking with geospatial technologies.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Go out and do an "Esther" today!
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Pirates off the port bow! A new GIS activity
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Does GIS matter?
Monday, November 23, 2009
Turkey-riffic Maps
http://www.nwtf.org/for_hunters/all_about_turkeys.html
Friday, November 20, 2009
Geography: Where Dead Authors and Dusty Books Come to Life
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
GIS Day at St. Paul's
Monday, November 16, 2009
New My World GIS Versions of our STEM GIS Activities
You can download the activities for AEJEE, ArcGIS or My World GIS. http://www.isat.jmu.edu/stem/curriculum.html
Google Search for Kids
Zoomarrific Historic Maps
Friday, November 13, 2009
Virtually Speaking
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
GIS = STEM
Friday, November 06, 2009
Geography Awareness Week
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Lit Trips and Author's Homes
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Kiwi and Pear Travel the World
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Easy "Make a Map" GIS
http://mapapps.esri.com/create-map/index.html
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Fall is Data Hunting Season
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Maps of the Imagination
Run to the library, warm up your Kindle or place an order...and read!
Friday, September 04, 2009
World View from A Different Perspective
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Discovery Earth LIVE
Friday, August 21, 2009
The Watsons Go to AGX 900
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Got GIS?
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Quote for the Week
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Mapping Hurricanes
Friday, August 14, 2009
New Version of ArcGIS Explorer Available
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Assessment and Grading Resources
Monday, August 10, 2009
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Geospatial Revolution
Friday, July 24, 2009
Go Baylor!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Focusing the Spatial Lens in the Classroom
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Spatial Advertising
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Cool GIS Gear
New, Free GIS Tools-ArcGIS Explorer 900
Have a look at the latest geo-browser coming from ESRI in August. It updates and enhances the existing ArcGIS Explorer to new heights! I think this tool has some great applications for K-12 education. It goes beyond Google Earth's capabilities so that students can do some more analysis of map data and content. COOL tools are a good think!
http://www.esri.com/events/uc/images/plenary/6arcgis-explorer.html
I'm looking forward to creating some great curricular resources with it! Also check out the other news from the ESRI International User Conference Plenary at http://www.esri.com/events/uc/agenda/plenary.html.
It's always fun learning about new stuff when we make the trek to San Diego each summer! Thanks ESRI!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
San Diego Zoo at the ESRI UC 2009
Become a GeoMentor
Join the fun and become a GeoMentor! Lots of educators need the expertise and support of a GIS professional while lots of GIS professionals need educators to connect with. Search no more. This is the place to connect. Educators and professionals can register on the GeoMentor site for their needs. It's free and just a good thing to do!
Updates from the ESRI EdUC 2009
Fresh from the ESRI EdUC 2009 and ready to face another year...here are the latest files updated to my website. Downloads for Georeferencing the Curriculum and the Earth, Wind and Fire presentation (sans disco music) are available along with other good resources for integrating GIS in your classroom. http://www.barbareeduke.com/downloads/downloads.htm and http://www.barbareeduke.com/resources/resources.htm
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Reading, Writing and the Great Outdoors
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/sports/outdoors/456943
Monday, July 06, 2009
Geocoding Large Data Sets...FREE
Hi all!
While I solidly believe GPS fieldwork is a great thing for a youth based project often I get questions about how can lat/long be created from an address or a spreadsheet. ESRI announced a week or so ago it’s free geocoder and it is great!(http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/2009/06/19/geocoding-using-arcgis-online.aspx)
However, one of the useful tools I would like to share today is the website Batch Geocode - http://www.batchgeocode.com/. It is very beneficial when you have LARGE data sets but equally as useful with a small dataset. You can very quickly copy information from a spreadsheet into this online tool and it will output the information with 2 new fields (bg_lat, bg_long –the bg stands for batchgeocode).
You can create a kmz file for use in Google Earth and you can also import this tabular data into ArcGIS, AEJEE and ArcExplorer with the x, y data!
A few tips that I will share from my experiences with this:
1) Try it out using their “data” that is preloaded before copying your own in. You will see how the process works with a small data set and what all of the fields/options are.
2) At the bottom of the process there is an option to “Save Map to a webpage” this is a webpage created on their website and you have no control over it other than to request it’s removal…which they are very nice to do if you mistakenly put up information that is sensitive (individuals names, phone numbers etc). I learned that the hard way.
3) As the geocoder is processing on the site. Watch your numbers of successfully geocoding data rows especially if you have a large dataset you have entered. The reason I suggest this is that if it slows down and appears to be stalling it is having a problem processing a specific address – if you write down the number that it seems to stall on you will know which row to go to in your spread sheet and look for potential addressing problems. I tried out a 300 person file and had 8 errors that I found this way. Also you can have it process in smaller sections by only copying in/out smaller sections of data at a time.
4) Always check the data once it loads in your GIS program or Google Earth – you may be able to quickly see errors in your information or in the processing. You can always rerun a single line of data. It is free so that doesn’t always mean correct!
I have shared this resource with professionals, youth groups and educators so if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Shannon
Shannon H. White, PhD
Geospatial Extension Specialist
Department of Geography
University of Missouri
20 Stewart Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 884-0790
http://geospatial.missouri.edu
Friday, July 03, 2009
ASCD 2009 Interview
http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/geographic-imaging-systems.html
We'll be together again in San Diego next week for the ESRI Education Users Conference (www.esri.com/educ)...come see us!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Jack Dangermond Speaks on GIS and Web 2.0
Friday, May 22, 2009
Friday, May 08, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
It was absolutely stunning. The sky was a cobalt blue with just the fringe of a rainbow sunrise
on the horizon.
It would be interesting to combine GPS, GIS, and Astronomy to get different perspectives of celestial events and the reasoning behind the visual based on Lat/Lon and elevation.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Cross-Curricular Units with GIS
If you're searching for great ways to integrate English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and GIS lessons, then start with these two examples. Both units include reading, writing and thinking along with solid content-driven examples in all subjects.
- "Water, Water Everywhere"
- "Out of Bounds: A Cross-Curricular Baseball Unit"
Technology Integration in the News
Spring into Nature
Sunday, March 15, 2009
ASCD Conference 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Air Traffic Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4g930pm8Ms
Monday, January 12, 2009
GIS Educator - Winter 2008 edition
http://www.esri.com/library/newsletters/giseducator/gised-winter08.pdf