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.
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.”
