VCGI offered a 12-hour course (consisting of three 4-hour classes) for municipal officials, K-12 educators, and others last summer.
The course will be offered in Montpelier and Rutland. Topics that will be covered in the course are described below. The fee for the course is $50 and includes a 150-page training manual. Registration materials will be posted soon!
This course provided training designed to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) knowledge and skills. It is not required that the intended participant have any prior experience using GIS, but familiarity with using computers (especially basic file management) is important.
Using free software (ArcExplorer - Java Edition for Education (v2.2.3)) participants will explore mapping options and resources that they can continue to use when they return to their office or classroom. Exercises and supplemental information provide additional opportunities for exploration.
The successful completion of these exercises will give participants the skills necessary to:
- Acquire, evaluate, and use digital geographic data in a GIS application
- Modify the appearance of geographic data layers
- Perform simple queries and analyses, and
- Create and export maps and data.
Exercises use ArcExplorer - Java Edition for Education (v2.2.3) software from ESRI. ArcExplorer is a free, downloadable software package specifically designed to explore geographic data for both Windows-based and Macinstosh OS X-based computers.
You can download the training Workbook materials used during the 2008 training (a revised workbook will be used in 2009) below. If you would like a CD with all of the projects and data referred to in the workbook exercises, please email Leslie Pelch:
Individual sections and exercises (range from 75 KB to 2 MB)
