In a recent email from Allen Carrol, Chief Cartographer for
the NGS, I was given a brief description of what we can
expect:

The column launches with the October 1999 issue. It will be
a single page of the magazine--which raises some challenges,
since so many maps look compelling when viewed full-size but
are unintelligible when shrunk to National Geographic
Magazine size.

The goal of the column is to give readers glimpses into the
vast universe of maps and mapping. "Maps" will be broadly
defined to include everything from traditional cartography
to satellite imagery to medical imaging and so on. We'll
feature maps of many kinds from all sorts of sources from
all around the world. The subjects chosen must combine an
intellectually interesting topic with a visually compelling
presentation.

Themes for the first few columns include the Antarctic ozone
hole, nineteenth-century panoramic maps of U.S. cities, and
the World Wildlife Fund's ambitious global ecoregions
mapping efforts. We are welcome to submit ideas for future
columns - got an idea we could recommend?

http://news.geocomm.com/esri_uc/ngs.html

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Last month we announced that ESRI has introduced a new on-
line ArcInfo course called "Intro to ARC/INFO"

Here's a few updates regarding ESRI training

~ over 50,000 grads to date
~ 8 courses currently offered in the Virtual Campus
~ 23 courses are in development for the Virtual Campus
~ ESRI offers training in 34 courses and there are 11 new
ones planned

http://campus.esri.com/

New and updated courses on the Virtual Campus (extracted
from the ESRI Campus Newsletter)

Two new courses have been added to the Virtual Campus:
"Programming with Avenue" and "Spatial Hydrology Using
ArcView GIS."

In "Programming with Avenue," you will learn how to write
Avenue scripts, create custom applications, and customize
the ArcView GIS interface using object oriented programming
syntax.

In "Spatial Hydrology Using ArcView GIS," you will be
studying hydrology from a GIS perspective, developing new
ideas, and solving problems using spatial data and functions
provided by GIS. This course looks at the relationship
between hydrology and GIS and spatial data development.

The "Introduction to ArcView GIS" course has been updated to
incorporate new ArcView 3.1 functionality. Students who were
enrolled in the original "Introduction to ArcView GIS"
course, which is now "Introduction to ArcView GIS 3.0," were
automatically enrolled in the new "Introduction to ArcView
GIS" course. These students can now update their ArcView GIS
Virtual Campus Edition software to version 3.1.

You can learn more about these new courses in ESRI's online
Course Catalog: http://campus.esri.com/coursecatalog

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Paper by Steve Wanner & Joseph Kerski
"The Implementation of ArcView GIS in Beginning and Advanced
High School Geography Courses"

Abstract:
The incorporation of GIS technology and methods has been an
intensive but valuable component to new and pre-existing
lessons in the geography program at Boulder High School,
Boulder Colorado USA. Enhanced learning in local and
international lessons resulted from making more variables
available and from increased inquiry. Important ingredients
of success included the integration of local and real-time
data sets, networking with the USGS and the City of Boulder,
and applying GIS to lessons that had previously been tested.
Other key success elements included the participation and
interest of the computer laboratory manager and the tenacity
of the content teacher

http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/proc98/PROCEED/
TO550/PAP501/P501.HTM

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If you need to locate a Canadian University here's an
extensive listing:

http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/cdnuniv.html

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