ArcGIS Online - Esri

Geography is:

• What's where?
• Why is it there?
• So what?

ArcGIS Statewide license is available to all teachers and students in Utah. It is a JavaScript based program that will work on any device, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Android, PC, Mac.
Without even logging in, students can enter data, view tables of data, edit maps. All they have to do is navigate a browser.

You can change symbols, filter for data, compare data and really learn to understand set theory.
Students can

• Explore
• Analyze
• Solve
• Communicate

Online makes it so easy to do this from home or school and share with parents, other students, groups.

You can search for data already in the system to going to "Search for Layers". Choose data and then select done adding layers. Try population - select the legend button and zoom in and out to see different levels of information: State/County/Tract/BlockGroup.

Add caption

This layer shows state data

Zoom in and this layer shows block groups data

 

ESRI - Earth Sciences Resource Institute is privately owned.  Each account has three levels of users: Aministrator/Publisher/Users

Introduction to ArcGIS and videos can be found here: http://esriurl.com/mappingwithago

If you want to do Online Courses you must have an ESRI Global Account. They are free!

Charlie Fitzpatrick presenter cfitzpatrick@esri.com

ESRI Education Community and more at http://edcommunity.esri.com/software/webmapping/

iPhone app - MotionX GPS will create a track as a gpx. Drag onto an ArcGIS online map and amazing.

New Excel Add-on for Microsoft Office 2010 (PC only) will allow you to take an excel document and create an interactive map inside of Excel and export as a slide to Powerpoint.

UGIC conference info UGIC.org 

Conference in Provo 1st week of April.