GIS Education Weekly: New Google Maps API Course, Map of U.S. Jobs vs. Skills, Rethinking the Cartography Curriculum

Programs, Degrees and Courses

Google announced a new, two week, at your own pace, free course on Udacity about its Google Maps APIs. "This course will introduce you to the content available through the Google Maps APIs." h/t Jim Lacy.

Last week's Q&A regarding the UCLA Extension's GIS certificate prompted this comment from Thad J. Dymkowski, GISP, an instructor in the GIS certificate program at Central Connecticut State University. "[CCSU] offers a very similar GIS Certificate program through their Office of Continuing Education, with the same GTCM foundation as UCLA, for a fraction of that cost... and it provides the added bonus of Saturday classes [details] and having a significant on-line portion as well allowing students- both traditional and non-traditional, to work on their schedule for their convenience!"

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GIS Education Weekly: Map Reaches Samsung Competition Finals, Mapbox Free for Students and Educators, Sounds Around the World

New Hampshire Freshmen Take a Map to Finals of Samsung Competition

A dump site in the Bow student's application.

Marcel Duhaime's ninth grade engineering class at Bow High School in New Hampshire created a "Bow Dump Sites" crowdsourcing application in ArcGIS Online to map where waste has been dumped in town. The project (video) is one of 15 finalists in the national Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition per the local paper. Public voting is open until March 25. There are other categories of judges, too, including Samsung employees.

Jacksonville Uses Tech in Geography Class

Curious to know what tech they use?

Some Jacksonville High School geography students are wielding technological tools called Smore, Edmodo and Google Hangouts to learn about the world.

There is no mention of GIS in the entire article about the Illinois school's course. Illinois has a K-12 Esri license.

Geodesign Coming to Wisconsin Madison.

Per Travis Flohr ‏@travis_flohr:

The UW-Madison Geodesign program has received final approvals. More info coming soon.