Introduction to GIS Concepts
Introduction to ArcView 3.1
Advanced ArcView I (vector GIS)
Advanced ArcView II (raster GIS)
Introduction to Avenue

I found this material to be very useful and a nice find since on-line GIS training material is difficult to come by. The courses are well written, easy to understand, and contain numerous graphics and screen shots. These will be very usefull to anyone requiring an introductory primer. The Intro to Avenue Course is especially useful to ArcView newbies or anyone wanting to get into ArcView application development.

About USC.
U.S.C. was one of an initial group of American research universities to become members of the University Consortium on Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). The UCGIS is a non-profit organization of universities and other research institutions dedicated to advancing our understanding of geographic processes and spatial relationships through improved theory, methods, technology, and data. You can visit the UCGIS website at www.ucgis.org.

Mohawk College
http://www.mohawkc.on.ca/
Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario offers a GIS certificate through its continuing education program. Two of the courses in the program "Introduction to GIS" and "Introduction to ArcView Software" are offered as distance education courses via the internet. These two courses are also part of program called "Contact South", which allows the student to sign up a the closest college and take the course with other internet students. The following colleges and others are part of this program.
Fanshaw - London
Durham - Oshawa
Cambrain - Sudbury
Canadore - North Bay
Sault College - Sault St. Marie
St. Lawrence - Kingston

K-12 Resource - Outline Maps
http://wolf.its.ilstu.edu/maps/outlines.htm
The Outline Maps home page provides numerous "outline" maps waiting for you to download or print. These are ideal to include in lesson plans or to give your kids to help them become a geography whizz like you! Outline maps are exactly that, maps that show the outlines of countries, states, provinces so that you can add your own labels and annotation. All of the fundamentals of cartography are as important for outline maps as for any other maps. Scale, projection, line weights, color and a dozen other map attributes combine to give unlimited variations of outline maps.

Based on strong traditions in geography education, they have made a set of high quality maps that you can download and print as master copies for unlimited reproduction. Ideal to hand out to students or for your kids.

If you maintain or know of any useful on-line GIS educational materials please tell us about it by emailing to editor@geocomm.com We'd love to feature your educational resource next month!

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