Mapping Our Future: Using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for Place-based Inquiry

This is a professional development opportunity for educators grades 5 -12 on the ArcGIS 9.3 software which was recently licensed for K12 Hawaii. Receive GIS curriculum, Hawaii lessons and data on a jump drive, and a GPS unit! Instructors are Diana Papini Warren, Project Manager at Women in Technology and Joseph Kerski, Education Manager from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Education Team.

Requirements: This is for neighbor island teachers only. Limited funds available for non-Maui teachers’ travel. Previous experience with GIS, either via a training, work experience, or self-taught.

Oct 6-9 – Kihei, Maui 9:00 – 4:00 Daily
Live Online Follow up Sessions: 10/22, 11/19, and 12/3 3:30 – 5:00 PM

See attached flyer for more details!

REGISTER ONLINE TODAY!:

Labels: Events, GIS, GIS Activities, GIS Data, GPS to GIS

Launch the Pacific Disaster Center Online Atlas!

Visit http://www.pdc.org, then click on the map right on the home page. It will launch a GIS viewer. Use the Zoom In tool to drag a box around Hawaii, click Show Legend in the upper right.

As this is posted, Felicia is arriving in Hawaii as a tropical storm!

Labels: GIS, Online Map Tools

All K12 schools, public and private, now can request the ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 software!
FREE!

The software license was purchased this Spring via a partnership between MEDB Women in Technology and the Hawaii Department of Education.

The GIS Distribution Center is all online and managed by MEDB WIT.

To Request the Software for Your School, go here:

Hawaii K12 GIS Distribution Center

http://www.womenintech.com/GISDistributionCenter/

Labels: GIS

Students are mapping their own communities with GIS!

Visit the ESRI Community Atlas program webpage to learn more:
http://edcommunity.esri.com/commatlas/

Labels: GIS, GIS Activities

Are you a social studies teacher wondering how GIS might be useful in teaching US History and Slavery? Are you curious to see some powerful visual representations of slavery data?

Visit this website to learn more:
http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/divide/teachers/lausd_jordan.html

Labels: GIS, GIS Activities

Hot off the press!!

Hawaii K12 schools, public and private, now have access to the real, current, most powerful version of GIS software available by ESRI: ArcGIS 9.3!

Please read the press release at this LINK for more information about this great news.

MEDB Women in Technology (WIT) purchased the software in partnership with the DOE and is the point of distribution. In addition, WIT will continue to provide statewide professional development activities to support teachers in implementing GIS use in the classroom. Stay tuned for more information on distribution.

Labels: GIS, GIS Careers