Free ESRI Virtual Campus Courses (on-line, self-paced)
Contact Wei-Hsin Fu (Wei-Hsin.Fu@ColoradoCollege.edu or 719-389-6130) for assistance.

With our annual ArcGIS desktop software maintenance, we have limited free courses from ESRI Virtual Campus, for faculty, staff, and students.

Although you do not get academic credits from these courses, you get a certificate from ESRI after completing a course. These courses are also eligible for educational achievement points awarded by the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI).

NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education ) GIS Initiative Workshops

These workshops are designed to help faculty and staff from NITLE affiliated colleges learn to teach with GIS. Faculty and staff from these institutions pay no fees to attend these workshops, and NITLE will cover travel, lodging, and meal expenses. Colorado College is one of the affiliated colleges.

Resources on the Web

Instructional Materials (software independent)

• Geographic Information Systems, GIS basics by USGS
  
  
• What is GIS at GIS.com
  
  
• Error, Accuracy, and Precision from Kenneth E. Foote and Donald J. Huebner, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin
  (http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/error/error_f.html)
  
  
• Geodesy for the Layman maintained by National Imagery and Mapping Agency
  (http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/Geodesy4Layman/TR80003A.HTM)
  
  
• GIS Self Learning Tools developed by Department of Geomatics at University of Melbourne, Autralia
  (http://www.sli.unimelb.edu.au/gisweb/menu.html)
  
  
• Global Positioning System Overview from Peter H. Dana, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder
  (http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html)

Tutorials/Courses - ESRI ArcGIS 9 Desktop Oriented
Much of the resources are provided by NITLE GIS Initiative

• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (CSISS) GIS Cookbook
  (http://www.csiss.org/cookbook/)
  
  
• Harvard College Library GIS Tutorials and Exercises
  (http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/gis/tutorials.html)
  
  
• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources GIS Training and Help
  (http://thoreau.dnr.state.mn.us/mis/gis/tools/arcview/Training/WebHelp/Training.htm)
  To access exercises for ArcGIS 9.x, find "DNR GIS Courses" in the Contents list on the left side of the screen, and then click "Intro to Arcmap".
  
  
• Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) ArcGIS Tutorial
  (http://www.pasda.psu.edu/tutorials/arcgis/)
  
  
• University of Arkansas Libraries Introductory Tutorial
  (http://libinfo.uark.edu/gis/tutorial.asp)

Tutorials - Subject Oriented

• NITLE GIS Tutorials
  (http://gis.nitle.org/resources/GIST.htm)
  Following instructions on this page to join GIS tutorial courses at NITLE Moodle site
  
  
• Sinte Gleska University on-line GIS Course
  (http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/sgu/sgugis.html)
  
  
• USGS Educational Resources - the GIS Lab
  (http://education.usgs.gov/common/lessons/gis.html)

Resources for Social Sciences Faculty/Staff

• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS)
  Funded in 1999 with the support from National Science Foundation, CSISS seeks to advance the spatial analytic capabilities of researchers throughout the social sciences and to foster the integration of spatial analysis into social science teaching. You will find a lot of valuable resources on this Web site including summaries and illustrations of major contributions to spatial thinking in the social sciences, literature search engine, course syllabi for anthropology, archaeology, Economics, Environment & Resources, History, Political Science, Sociology, etc., video clips of CSISS workshops, and much more. CSISS workshops are NOT free to Colorado College employees.
  (http://www.csiss.org/)
  
  
• Teaching Spatially Integrated Research Methods
  A Paper presented at 2005 ESRI International User Conference by Richard LeGates at San Francisco State University
  
  
• GIS: A guide to good practice in documenting and archiving datasets (both spatial and attribute) from Geographic Information Systems
  AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Guide for Good Practice with enphasis on archaeology data, but the principles can be applied to other disciplines. Edited by Mark Gillings and Alicia Wise
  (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/gis/index.html)
  
  
• A Place in History - A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research
  By Gregory, Ian. Publisher Oxbow Books Limited (2002), ISBN 1842170368
  Web version: http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/gis/index.asp
  
  
• Think Globally, Act Regionally: GIS and Data Visualization for Social Science and Public Policy Research.
  By Richard LeGates. Publisher ESRI Press (2005), ISBN 1589481240
  
  
• Environmental Justice Analysis: Theories, Methods, and Practice.
  By Feng Liu. Publisher CRC Press (2001), ISBN 1566704030
  
  
• Advanced Spatial Analysis: The CASA Book of GIS.
  Edited by Paul Longley and Michael Batty. Publisher ESRI Press (2003), ISBN 1589480732
  ** Available at Keck GIS Commons
  

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