Mon, Jul 30, 2012 1:10 PM in Project-based Learning: Earth's Changing Surface
GIS is a great resource for more than just the Science crowd.... Social Sciences, Literacy (Be sure to check out http://www.googlelittrips.org/ " target="_blank">Google Lit Trips someday!), all good stuff!
ESRI (the ArcGIS folks) have a free ArcGIS app for iPhone and 'Droid. It's got numerous layers you can download as part of the freebie. If you've got an ESRI account, I believe there's eve...
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Mon, Jul 30, 2012 10:35 AM in Web 2.0 tools for STEM and others.
Hi Suzanne,
Hey, that's a great .PDF! Looks like it was just updated as well (July 2012). Thanks for posting that one.
Thought I'd add in a couple of links to open source GIS applications. These are downloads that will need to be installed, but can help "get things going" if funds are short, etc.
Here's Quantum GIS. It's a well-recognized, stable, multi-platform open source GIS from Europ...
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Tue, Jul 24, 2012 1:42 PM in Web 2.0 tools for STEM and others.
Hi all,
Thought I'd jump in with a couple of great online GIS sites... All these are web-based tools, so no downloads and installs are needed.
Here's a good resource from ESRI that allows users to build presentations with a number of pre-made or home-grown maps. It's pretty intuitive and great for projects.
http://www.arcgis.com/explorer/ " target="_blank">ESRI's ArcGIS Online Explorer
Wor...
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