Teaching With GIS Resources and Lessons GIS Technical Assistance and Training Free GIS Software, Tools, and Extensions Other Imagery Sources of Interest GIS-Related Publications and Articles Career Connections in GIS     GIS Technical Assistance and Training New York State GIS Help Desk http://www.gishost.com/gishelpdesk/ A GIS Cookbook: Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science http://www.csiss.org/cookbook/ National Park Service Introduction to ArcGIS 9 for Land Management http://www.nps.gov/gis/outreach/arcgis9.html GIS Resources for Urban and Environmental Analysis (nice tutorials from Tufts University) https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/GIS/GIS+Tip+Sheets+%28ArcGIS+9.x%29 Other tutorials http://mannlib.cornell.edu/services/reference/GIS/gislearning.cfm http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/gis/tutorials.html Also, here’s a very straight-forward tutorial developed for students at Feinstein High School in Providence, RI: http://local.provplan.org/feinstein/Feinstein%20ArcMap%20tutorial.doc Intro to GIS--Lesson developed by Paul Bolstad, author of GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems http://www.paulbolstad.net/arcGIS_exercises/Exercises.html   Free GIS Software, Tools, and Extensions ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/download-education.html ArcExplorer - Web http://www.geographynetwork.com/maps/arcexplorerweb.html ET GeoWizards http://www.ian-ko.com/ XTools http://www.xtoolspro.com/download.html Hawth's Analysis Tools for GIS http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/overview.php Arc Hydro http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/archydrotools/tools.html   Other Imagery Sources of Interest High-Resolution Aerial Photography http://map.live.com/ choose "Bird's Eye View" Historical Maps http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycayuga/maps/1853/index.html Cayuga County, 1853 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycayuga/maps/1859/index.html Cayuga County, 1859 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~springport/pictures91/onondaga1860.html Onondaga County, 1860 http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ontariocounty/maps.htm Ontario County, 1859 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycayuga/maps/1859/seneca.html Seneca County, 1859 http://nytompki.org/hecht_index.htm Tompkins County, 1853 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~springport/pictures161/1866tompkins.html Tompkins County, 1866 http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu/ Historical Aerial photography of Pennsylvania Historical Topographic Maps http://historical.mytopo.com/   GIT Ahead Workshop Materials Using Google Earth and Google Maps for Teaching Science and Environmental Issues http://fli.hws.edu/gitahead/workshop.html   GIS-related Publications and Articles GIS Best Practices: Education (ESRI article) http://www.esri.com/library/bestpractices/education.pdf Article on the Value of Google Earth in Education (Sierra Magazine) http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200709/google.asp Spatial Thinking, Education, and the Workforce http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0706/spatial-think.html The Fourth R?  Rethinking GIS Education http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall06articles/the-fourth-r.html Report Defining and Communicating Geospatial Industry Workforce Demand http://www.aag.org/giwis/phase-one/phase-one-report.pdf   Career Connections in GIS GIS Job Market Predictions (March, 2004) Click here to view article Associate's Degree in GIS Program at Cayuga Community College http://www.cayuga-cc.edu/people/facultypages/cccgis/RequiredFiles/curriculum.html Cayuga Community College GIS Program Video Click here to view MapPros: Careers in Geospatial Technologies http://www.geospatialcareers.net/ ESRI http://www.esri.com/ The Geo Community http://www.geocomm.com/