Christmas Countdown

 

Christmas Songs 2021

 Mel Torme - Silver Bells

Perry Como - Here we come a Caroling

Elvis - Silver Bells

Vic Damone - Christmas in San Fransisco

Oskaloosa Survey and Map

 https://rdgusa.mysocialpinpoint.com/planosky

Gold by John Stewart

 This song just has a Haloweeny vibe to it.

 

 

Scout Presentations

 

Lake Keomah Story Map:  https://arcg.is/0TqezS

 

Lake Keomah Map: https://arcg.is/1GXD5O1

 

 

Story Map for HS students: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F8jTPD&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEcthys884bdnd-gXchqP0ZC1NDLw

 

2021 Presentation:

https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Farcg.is%2F1n9WyP0&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEZXMgNCZN3XHxgvCwikc0NezVZGQ

 

Tree:  https://knudt.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=e2d794ce7c0b44c2958cb905da416e75

Breakfast, College, Freshman year, Fall, 1995

 Run-Around - Blues Traveler

Only Wanna Be With you - Hootei & the Blowfish

December - Collective Soul

As I Lay Me Down - Sophie B Hawkins

Roll to Me - Del Amitri

Back for Good - Take That

Good - Better Than Ezra

Misery - Soul Asylum

Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something

Sick of Myself - Mathew Sweet

Beavis and Butthead

 

USNG Stuff

 Format to be viewable on Google Maps:  15TWF2976971552 or 15TWF 29769 71552

 

Wikipedia

FGDC

USNG Center

The Golden Door Motel

 

Baseball Bloopers

 

RAGBRAI Maps

All the maps for RAGBRAI 2021.

 

Working with YouTube

 Great article on dowloading youtube videos:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-download-youtube-videos

Baseball stuff

 

Weekend movies

 Memorial day weekend movies:

The Firm

The Graduate

Beastmaster

The Army of the Dead

Jaws

Disney's Go Away Green

 Just found out that Disney uses specific colors/paint for items that aren't "magical".

Referred to as "Go Away Green" or "No See Um Green" or "No See Um Grey"

Elevation/Line of sight tool

 Came across this website:

https://link.ui.com

The Haunting

 

Especially at 59:20

ESRI training tidbits

 Why visualize data?

Convert slow reasoning tasks into fast perception tasks

 

 Teaching with the Living Atlas

1.     Start with a curriculum and work in Living Atlas
2.     Start with Living Atlas and build curriculum around it
3.     Have students explore Living Atlas maps around a central concept
   

 

 Living Atlas URL

https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/home/

Buxton Wonders

 WHOTV Story

 Bozz Prints

 

 

M&M Baseball Commercial

 

Where to download ArcGIS Pro from organization account

 

1. Log into ArcGIS online
2. Click your user name and choose 'My settings'
3. Click 'Licenses' tab
4. Next to ArcGIS Pro, click 'Download'

Monochrome Display on Android

 I wanted to make my icons and screen on my Android device grayscale/monochrome.  Best instructions I found are below.  However, it makes EVERYTHING grayscale, even videos you are watching.  So it didn't do quite what I wanted.

1. settings

2. System

3. Advanced - Developer Options

4. Developer Options

5. Stimulate color space (Disabled by default)



must be enbable developer on device:
Go to Settings on your device
then go to About Phone
then to Build Number.
The Build Number has to be tapped at least 7-10 times
You will then see a new option on your screen
You are now a developer

Favorite Winter Movies

 After the holidays in the cold dark months of January and February, I enjoy certain wintry, depressing, type movies.  For whatever reason....these movies fall into this unique category for myself:

• Grumpy Old Men

• Youngblood

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• About Schmidt

• Storm of the Century 

• Cedar Rapids

• Planes Trains and Automobiles 

• Winter's Bone 

• Fargo

• The Shining

• Misery

• The Cutting Edge 

• The Empire Strikes Back

• Groundhog Day

GIS Links for the field

 Where is the GIS field headed?

 Top skils for GIS professionals

 

 

4 Messages for University Presidents and Deans as to why GIS is Necessary and Important to their University.

4 reasons why universities should be using GIS, or geotechnologies--geographic information systems.

 

1.    Given the complex problems we face as a society, most or all of which are tied to space and place, the whys of where questions will be asked by ALL disciplines in this decade and beyond.

 

2.    The complex and inter-disciplinary nature of these problems and issues are not going to be able to be solved with a single discipline, static paper maps, or standard workflows and visualizations, hence, GIS-location analytics-geotechnologies

 

 

3.    Using geotechnologies touches on all higher education larger goals – spatial thinking, critical thinking, meaningful use of technologies, working with data, and problem solving.

 

4.    Using geotechnologies enables students to be marketable in their future careers, which reflects positively on their university training and education, enables them to be change agents in their communities and in their world.

 

 

Joseph Kerski, PhD GISP