Brisbane Flooding

Roger and Anita Palmer of GISetc were at the Australian Geographic Teacher Association (AGTA) in Adelaide during the Brisbane flooding. We were with many teachers from the Brisbane area, and certainly, most teachers who were at AGTA had friends and relatives who lived...

The Perils of Being Anti-Social

This article from Harvey Mackay was shared with us this week and we were so impressed with it we wanted to pass it along to you here. Wishing you a happy and *social* 2011! “Is social media a fad or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?”...

Our work in Bahia Ballena

As we mentioned in our last blog highlighting the Participatory GIS vimeo, GISetc is working in the small rural community in southwestern Costa Rica of Bahia Ballena. This is a wonderful community of forward thinking, hard working, and dedicated community members who...

Feliz GIS Day!

Sounds festive, don’t you think? GIS Day is held each year in the third week of November, on the Wednesday during Geography Awareness Week, a geographic literacy initiative sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Watch the GIS Day video from...