Tuesday, November 3. 2009

Education Tidbits

There are more and more places to learn GIS! You can now take a three course series on ArcGIS from the KeyBank Tacoma Professional Development Center. After completion you receive a certificate. It's run through the Univ Washington Tacoma. It's rather cost effective at about $2500.

California State University Northridge is updating a campus tree atlas that predates the big earthquake. Among the challenges? Tagging trees not appropriate for "nailed in" metal tags, student stealing tags, and identifying species.

- CSU Sundial

Get free teaching tools related to the upcoming census. The Census in Schools materials are available free online at www.census.gov/schools "for educators, students, parents, home-schoolers and the public. Teachers can use the lesson plans -- as they are or adapted as needed -- to teach a host of topics including mapping, math concepts, data literacy and civics."

- press release

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