Joseph Kerski's blog

I have created a new lesson that uses spatial thinking and analysis to site the location of wind farms in Colorado:
 
http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=447
 

New lessons I have posted on ArcLessons include Water Use Analysis with GIS, analyzing census data, geocoding, routing, and using web-GIS in the classroom. 

http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=442

The videos from the ESRI International User Conference plenary session are on:

Karl's excellent poster got me thinking again about how we can effectively communicate our message.  As we know from the NRC report, spatially literate people need to have the "habit of mind" of knowing where, when, how, and why to think spatially.

What did you have to eat today? Where was your food grown? Where was the cotton in your shirt cultivated? An increasing number of books and research initiatives are aimed at helping students to reconnect with the importance of agriculture.