Latest Contributions by TamaNunnelley

This is awesome Tom! Its a great idea and it looks great too! I can't wait to see the new GeoInquiries!  ... View more

Anita!!! Once again you have proven to be the best "Homeroom Mother" a T3Ger could ask for!  Let the "hacking" umm I mean editing begin!!!! Seriously, the Geo-Inquiries project is my favorite part of ESRI for educators because so many teachers really need to have something in their hands, tangible...ready to go in order to try something that might be outside of their comfort zone. And, it has been incredible, as a teacher, to use as a tool in all kinds of ways. I was grateful for the inquiries and of course for ConnectEd but the fact that ESRI allows us to add to or change up the inquiries to fit our needs or to expand them, create our own with the template is beyond believable. I know of no other company that would do that. It truly is appreciated!!!! I can't wait to see those in Beta...and especially my other history love down the line...World History!!! Big Hugs Anita!!! ... View more

I am not sure how many of you are involved in your state geography alliance (part of the network of National Geographic Alliances). This year we are starting a multi-year initiative involving spatial thinking, inquiry, the C3 framework, and of course GIS will play a huge role in this. Over the summer each state will send 2 representatives to collaborate on lessons and materials. The participants have to be a techie or media specialist in a middle school and either a middle school science of social studies teacher in the same school. They will test these lessons on their students and then share the results in a collaborative format with pairs of 20 other such teachers in our state. We will work with the Mississippi Geographic Alliance on this project. On another note, I have had some success with collaboration in a Dual Enrollment Global Environment and Societies (GIS Enabled) course. While they had a facilitator in the classroom, I was the online instructor. For their final project, students were placed into groups where they had to map out a potential "Zombie Apocalypse" invasion and evacuation scenario using either AGO or Story Maps. It was fantastic! Very creative, fun, and a great way to show what they had learned in the course as well as show off some GIS skills. ... View more

I have done this with 6th grade students to great success. This was back before story maps and crowdsourcing. It takes a little more work up front and of course a lot of personal management but it can be very effective. At the end of term, I graded each group using a team rubric. Then, I was able to delete the work and keep the groups to use next semester. ... View more

That's a great question, Rich. I would like to know that as well. ... View more

This is what we have done with our state geography alliance org. We only have 2 named users but we have created other accounts inside the org. We have done this for students in a dual enrollment class as well as for students who are currently creating projects for our state map contest. At the end of the contest, we can delete the accounts and create them again as needed.  ... View more

Have you tried the crowdsourcing story map? I have had a few students work with this. ... View more

I experienced the same thing earlier on a mac. Happy to say I am back in!  ... View more