The open data movement is for everyone, by everyone. Open data provides a rich source of freely available information to make good decisions and understand the world. The key to this movement is crowd-sourced data – data gathered from a “crowd”. The crowd could be everyone in the world or a local group. It’s exciting […]
Esri’s social media map app is a free, easily customized tool for teachers to empower students to visualize trends and understand the world. A Twitter post by Esri Tech Evangelist Bern Szukalski, included a link to directions to make your own. Using these directions I made a social media map with a Twitter layer. I […]
Thousands of GIS enthusiasts from around the globe participate in GeoNet, https://geonet.esri.com by sharing ideas, posting questions and collaborating on projects. Why not you? Illinois Educators who love GIS now have a dedicated GeoNet group! The “Illinois Educator” GeoNet group has information about GIS events, GIS news, a forum, blog and more . In order […]
The GeoMentor website has great resources and information for GeoMentors as well as a form to sign up. Even those who were GeoMentors in the past are asked to fill out and submit the new form. Visit http://www.geomentors.net/