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A Publication Featuring The Information Services Technology of Maine State Government
| Volume V, Issue 11 | November 2002 |
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At the October 10-11th Maine GIS Users Group fall meeting, the Maine Office of Geographic Information Services (MEGIS) hosted three hands-on work sessions for educators to explain how they could use iBooks to access and use geographic and remotely sensed data. Windows laptops were also provided for those teachers unable to bring an iBook. Each participant was provided with the book, Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators, which was published and donated by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). In addition to nineteen complete GIS lesson plans, this book includes a one-year license of ArcView for Macintosh or Windows, geographic data for all of the lessons, a Teacher Resource CD, and a companion Web site.
The first exercise explained how to successfully load ArcView 3.0a onto an iBook or Arcview 3.2 onto a Windows machine. The second exercise covered ArcView Basics, a structured tutorial from the book of the basic functions of ArcView and GIS systems in general. For the third exercise, participants were provided by MEGIS with CDs of SPOT satellite imagery, land use/land cover imagery and GIS data for their local area. This was an unstructured exercise where skills learned with ArcView could be applied to Maine data. Three MEGIS staff were available for technical assistance in all sessions, and another session is planned in January of 2003.
Questions? Contact Larry Harwood by e-mailing larry.harwood@state.me.us.
