New eBook on Geography and GIS, Videos on Teaching Geography with ArcGIS Online

Joseph Kerski, Geographer and Education Manager at Esri,  shares the following Geography and GIS resources below:

"(1) A collection of essays entitled “Essays on Geography and GIS, Volume 4”, written by academicians and scientists, including Edelson, Goodchild, Dangermond, Artz, and others, dealing with trends in geography, geospatial matters, and GIS, is now available here:

http://www.esri.com/library/ebooks/essays-on-geography-gis-vol4.pdf

(2) I have created 7 videos (90 minutes of content, total) in a series entitled “Teaching Geography with ArcGIS Online” on the channel

http://www.youtube.com/esriedteam, beginning here:

http://youtu.be/DvKnwec6Dlk

This series began with an idea I had for a workshop I taught at the Geographical Association conference. The first 3 parts deal with “why and how can I teach geography with web-based GIS, specifically, ArcGISOnline” (www.arcgis.com) While they each give practical examples, parts 4 through 7 focus on in-depth examples, including global demographic analysis (birth rate, life expectancy, population change, by country), neighborhood deprivation and poverty, and lack thereof (using the UK as an example), plate tectonics (earthquakes, plates, volcanoes, including how to bring in real-time data into the analysis), and how to bring in your own data (by digitizing features on your computer screen, from the field via GPS and smartphones, adding real-time data, and how to add multimedia (video, photographs, sketches, text) to your maps."