My World GIS
Author:Caitlin Dempsey 
• 2/22/12 • Categorized as Education,Software
My World GIS is a full-featured GIS designed for educational use. My World provides a carefully selected subset of the features of a professional GIS environment. These features include multiple geographic projections, table and map views of data, distance-measurement tools, buffering and query operations, customizable map display. They have been selected to provide the greatest value to students without overwhelming them with complexity The features are accessed through a supportive interface designed with the needs of students and teachers in mind.
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Article originally published: 12/06/04
We are migrating from ArcView to My World for our elementary and junior high school students, training their teachers with a college course.
Our “My World” program now includes more than 650 students and has added 11 new data libraries.
My World Version 5 has been released. We have expanded our work in historical GIS at the 8th grade level with specialties in the Revolutionary War, Lewis & Clark Expedition, Westward Expansion and the Civil War. Our data sets now include federal censuses for 1790, 1800, 1840 and 1860.
We have been awarded a $10,000 grant to place the latest generation of the interactive whiteboards in our social studies classrooms to allow access to GIS lessons on a daily basis.