Keeping up with the latest developments in learning, teaching, and technology
Sixteen days doesn’t sound all that long, but here at CC, September 30th was the start of Block Two as well as the start of the 2013 Government shutdown. How exactly does this impact education at a small liberal arts college… In my world of GIS, spatial inquiry and analysis, information is king. …
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Please check out a great web resources for GIS educators: http://www.teachgis.org/ “Teachers and learners of GIS, and related geo-technologies, want to increase the rewards while we lower the frustrations. This site, created by instructors and for instructors, is designed to support our educational community of practice.” Resources, Discussions, and Blogs. This site is truly made by educators for educators who have …
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On Feb. 11th 2013, NASA launched its eighth Earth-observation satellite as part of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. Landsat 8 will join two other Landsat satellites still in orbit, although one of those was recently decommissioned (Landsat 5). The satellite is in a healthy orbit and NASA is receiving its telemetry, however no acquired images …
Greetings from your friendly neighborhood GIS guy! I’m pleased to announce that the Keck GIS Commons is now hosting and supporting an ArcSDE for Server Workgroup environment for use in long term research projects. SDE, short for Spatial Database Engine, is a core component of a GIS server platform that aims to enable the usage of Relational …
Greetings from your friendly neighborhood GIS guy! Online teaching tools are becoming more readily available and are now a permanent fixture in our teaching curriculum. This is no different in the world of spatial analysis and inquiry. The days of plugging away in front of a highend pc in a very complex and comprehensive program is no longer a …
