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Online GIS Tutorials

GIS, mapping, and spatial reasoning are the focus of Latitude, NITLE’s GIS Initiative. It promotes the use of mapping and GIS for the purposes of developing and enhancing a spatial understanding of liberal arts curricula. The NITLE Geographic Information System Initiative provides resources to get started with GIS. Including free online geographic information systems tutorials.

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Educational Uses of Google Earth

Below are a few pointers.

Google suggests:

http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html

This is k12:

http://www.teachinghacks.com/2006/11/03/google-earth-as-a-classroom-tool/

From the Google Earth blog:

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/08/back_to_school.html

Free high resolution US shaded relief

An incredible impressive project (see the methods section), its outcome released in public domain.

http://www.shadedrelief.com/physical/index.html