{"id":155892,"date":"2018-11-13T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcwatch&p=155892"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:58:05","slug":"tell-a-teacher-or-school-about-esris-free-arcgis-online-organizational-account","status":"publish","type":"arcwatch","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcwatch\/tell-a-teacher-or-school-about-esris-free-arcgis-online-organizational-account","title":{"rendered":"Tell a Teacher or School about Esri’s Free ArcGIS Online Organizational Account"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":731,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[163382,278712,161582,288282],"arcwatch_issues":[170312],"class_list":["post-155892","arcwatch","type-arcwatch","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-arcgis-online","tag-connected","tag-schools","tag-teachers","arcwatch_issues-july-2015","arcwatch_sections-maps-more"],"acf":{"short_description":"Just over a year ago, Esri answered President Barack Obama's call to join the ConnectED initiative, an effort to help all students in...","pdf":{"host_remotely":true,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Esri's ConnectED Contribution: One Year On, One Year Strong<\/strong>\r\n\r\nJust over a year ago, Esri answered President Barack Obama's call to join the\u00a0ConnectED<\/a>initiative, an effort to help all students in kindergarten through the twelfth grade in the United States become effective digital learners.\r\n\r\nPresident Obama asked private businesses to contribute technology such as computers and tablets, Internet connectivity, software, learning resources, and training for educators. Esri president Jack Dangermond offered every K \u201312 school in the United States\u2014public, private, or home school\u2014a free\u00a0ArcGIS Online organizational<\/a>\u00a0account and accompanying instructional materials. Amazon Web Services, which provides essential infrastructure in\u00a0ArcGIS Online<\/a>, generously stepped up to help."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":235482,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Students can use the tools in ArcGIS Online to analyze data and make maps\u2014instilling spatial-thinking skills that will help them with their school research projects and in their future careers. The specially configured ArcGIS Online organizational accounts offer what businesses, governments, and agencies around the world increasingly find valuable: a custom portal, galaxies of data, and a fleet of applications simple enough for grade school students to use yet robust enough for mission-critical or scientific work. Students and professionals use ArcGIS Online to build, host, and share content in a safe and secure environment."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"More than 1,000 schools in the United States have acquired free accounts, including Crookston High School in Crookston, Minnesota; Winfield Middle School in Winfield, West Virginia; Dunsmuir Elementary School in Dunsmuir, California; Alianza Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah; and all 80 Loudoun County Public Schools sites in Loudon County, Virginia. (View the Esri Story Map to see if a school near you is participating.)\r\n\r\nChildren are using ArcGIS Online to track butterflies and whales, map great literature and local history, determine earthquake hot spots, monitor signs of climate change, and much more. They also can use ArcGIS Online to share results of their work. The technology helps students explore the multiple factors that influence complex issues, and then make decisions and solve problems\u2014just like adults do.\r\n\r\nIn the digital world, this is what students need most: experience in solving ill-defined problems, managing large inputs of data, asking questions about that data to uncover patterns, synthesizing information, and communicating the meaning of what was discovered."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":235492,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"ArcGIS Online will help them do that and more.\r\n\r\nEducators long to breathe life into material in the form of projects, which are like \"educational Velcro,\" holding students' focus and bringing together scattered collections of numbers, concepts, and places. Education is not delivery but engagement, and projects let students make an investment in learning, follow their ideas, innovate, create, and share.\r\n\r\nWeb-based mapping via ArcGIS Online means that students can work on their projects using any connected device, anytime, anywhere. They can create, work with, and share maps from a tablet computer at home, a classmate's smartphone, or a Mac-, Windows-, or Chrome-based computer at school."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":235502,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Web-based mapping via ArcGIS Online means that students can work on their projects using any connected device, anytime, anywhere. They can create, work with, and share maps from a tablet computer at home, a classmate's smartphone, or a Mac-, Windows-, or Chrome-based computer at school."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":235512,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"With this rapidly evolving technology, educators need\u00a0GeoMentors<\/a>\u00a0to show them what's possible, get the ball rolling, and help explain how they can take advantage of ArcGIS Online organizational accounts.\u00a0Resources<\/a>\u00a0include easy-to-use\u00a0introductions<\/a>\u00a0that will help students get started on their learning quests using mapping technology.\r\n\r\nPlease help educators engage their students in activities that build curiosity, critical thinking, and other skills that will last a lifetime. Spread the word about the free ArcGIS Online organizational accounts. 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