An easy yet powerful activity is to map place names using a GIS. Make it even better by mapping names associated with holidays. For Valentine’s Day, I mapped place names containing the words “love”, “heart”, and “rose.” I ran three queries against the Geographic Names Information System, exporting each file as a comma separated value [...]
Role Models Still Count…
Pfleger has developed a close working relationship with a community homeless shelter for women and children where some of her students live, helping set up a learning center in the shelter to support her students’ out of school academic needs. She also established the DREAM Team (Demonstrating Respect Every day to Achieve More) for at-risk [...]
Fun with GIS #104: Building Data Inside ArcGIS Online
Need an easy way to make a point data file within ArcGIS Online, doing data entry within the map? This five-minute video (silent but annotated) shows how to turn a simple two-line text file into a way to add data points with attributes to your map. Generally, mapping and classifying a set of points with [...]
Would You Keep Going to Work if You Stopped Getting Paid?
Educators in Pennsylvania’s Chester Upland School District were forced to make that very difficult decision recently, when the district announced that without an infusion of new cash from the state, it would not be able to make payroll starting January 18. But members of the Chester Upland Education Association and the Chester Upland Education Support [...]