A lot of students are not that fond of history. This is partly because some of the topics are a bit difficult, and partly because the subject itself is monotonous. Yet, everybody wants a good grade in history. So the question is, how to do so?
2015 Best Colleges Rankings Like UC Berkeley, Williams College, and Princeton
U.S. News & World Report today released the 30th edition of its flagship Best Colleges rankings, which measure academic excellence. For the second year in a row, Princeton University claims sole possession of the No. 1 spot in the Best National Universities category. Williams College tops the list of Best National Liberal Arts Colleges, making […]
Esri MOOC – Go Places with Spatial Analysis #EsriMOOC
Does spatial analysis get you going? Are you eager to learn more about geotech? If so then this new MOOC from Esri is for you! Some details from Esri… This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is for people who know something about data analysis and want to learn about the special capabilities of spatial data […]
Online Mapping for Beginners – The Map Academy from CartoDB
Something innovative from the CartoDB crew (timely given their recent announcement of CartoDB Enterprise) … The Map Academy, a series of online mapping courses – Learn to create maps on the web and visualize geospatial data. The first course is ‘Online Mapping for Beginners’, which gives a walk through of many CartoDB capabilities. It’s available […]
EDU Resource – ESRIUC Papers and Tech Workshop Presentations now Online
Here’s a great resource from Esri that has come out of the 2014 ESRIUC. the company has now generously made available the technical workshop presentations and papers from the 2014 conference. Browse the vast collections of papers and presentations, more than 1,000 in total, all now available to view as PPT and PDF documents – […]
Oh, Nothing Much Here… Just a donation of $1B in Esri Software and STEM EDU
WOW, indeed Jack is making some headlines this week and I love the focus on youth and STEM – for over 20 years now I can recall hearing the industry urging youth to look at STEM for their future and over the time the demand has continued to grow. Via Bloomberg – ESRI CEO Jack […]
ArcGIS Online Organization subscriptions available for instructional use at no cost via ConnectED
Esri has been working for months on an effort, launching Tue May 27 from the White House. It is in conjunction with the President’s “ConnectED” program, aimed at boosting access to digital learning for all… From Esri…
E-book Profiles How GIS Technology Improves Health Care Industry
A new resource from American Sentinal University ‘The State of the Modern Health Care Industry in the 21st Century: Technology and Business Intelligence Leads the Way,’ profiles the tech shifts in health care and offers an inside look into how geographic information systems (GIS) can be applied into health care organizations and the industry’s growing need for […]
Webinar Tip – Take Your Data to New Visualization Levels
Here’s details of a webinar of interest from Golden Software taking place this week at 2 times… Create stunning, multidimensional images by combining the functionality of Golden Software’s powerful visualization programs. Details – The Voxler Compatibility Webinar will demonstrate the benefits of uniting Voxler with Strater, Surfer, and Didger software programs. The host will utilize […]
Training Tip – Create an Interactive Map with jQuery (Video)
jQuery is a popular technology tool with the map geeks these days. Here’s a training resource that might help you to get up and running with jQuery – enjoy! In Create an Interactive Map with jQuery, Chris Converse shows how to design and create a rich interactive map for a web site, working in a coding […]