Our friends at the world's leading geospatial professional organization, URISA, announced the public commenting period for the new Geospatial Manager's Competency Model (GMCM) today.  The GMCM is a component of the overall Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) completed for the Dept of Labor in July 2010.  The GMCM will complete the top tier (9) of the GTCM by defining the knowledge,... More

GeoTech Center partner colleges Southwestern and San Diego State University are teaming up to provide an intermediate level geospatial technology workshop to educators in San Diego on the campus of SDSU the week before Esri User's Conference: July 16-19^th . The workshop will focus on the GIS technology as well as best teaching practices, such as using the GTCM for curriculum assessment and alignment... More

Jefferson Technical and Community College will host a series of two day geospatial technology workshops combined with a one day educators conference in Louisville KY June 11-14. The conference will include key note speakers and a series of break-out sessions for educators and workforce professionals. Anyone interested in participating is encouraged to contact Vince DiNoto .

For summer 2012, we will be hosting two GIS technology-focused workshops for educators.  The GeoTech Center is pleased to partner with the host organization, the Mid-Pacific Information and Communication Technology Center (MPICT) of City College of San Francisco. Our first one will be June 11-15 at Coastline College in Los Angeles featuring an Introduction to GIS workshop taught by an Esri-certified... More

If you are developing a program or applying for grants to support your program, a MUST read is the new Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education (Wiley-Blackwell).  The book includes great references and quotes to support grant proposals and provides a breath of material to help find the resources to develop or expand a GIS&T program.  It is available... More

Wanted to let you know I’m going to be presenting about the GTCM project at our GTEVCC cohort “debriefing” meeting  on Friday.  I’m impressed with the presentation of the results on the website and feel you should have several people sign up for an account after we discuss the value of the support materials.  I’ll let you know how it goes and also the results for my program. ... More

Shasta College is offering Raster GIS (GIS 23), fully online, from  February 21 – April 27.  This course will cover principals and practices related to raster data sets including grids, imagery and surface models.  This one-unit  unit course combines fundamental concepts and ArcGIS-based exercises.  Emphasis will be on the use of Spatial Analyst extension for grid manipulation,... More

Salt Lake Community College professor Adam Dastrup explains how he engages his students in using geospatial technology to learn about environmental science.  Watch his video here .

The GeoTREE Center (www.geotree.uni.edu ) at the University of Northern Iowa received a NSF REU award to introduce young scientists to a highly interdisciplinary research environment with fundamental and applied research in hyperspectral imaging (HI). HI is widely used in various disciplines such as Earth Science, Environmental Science, Biology, Forestry, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geographic... More

David DiBiase, Esri Director of Education, announced major upgrades to the Esri site license agreement for colleges and universities today.  Esri is adding functionality to the educational license by allowing access to Community and Business Analyst extensions with Business Analyst Site Add-on license.  They are also adding several vertical market extensions, such as Defense, Aeronautical,... More