Under our UGA site license, students (faculty and staff, too) have access to ESRI’s Virtual Campus.  Here, you can enroll in online ArcGIS courses that are self-instructed and self-paced.  This is an excellent way to get up to speed with ArcGIS (ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox, etc).  The following links to the list of courses available to us http://training.esri.com/campus/catalog/licenses/courselist.cfm?id=43

If you are interested, send Geoff Garland (ggarland@cviog.itos.uga.edu) an email requesting an “ESRI Virtual Campus class login code”. You should include the course title from the link above and inform him you are a student enrolled at WSFNR.

If you are just beginning, you should probably start with the “Lerning ArcGIS Desktop” and “Learning ArcGIS Spatial Analyst” (and then “Understanding Map Projections and Coordinate Systems”, “Understanding GIS Queries”).

Also,

ESRI offers a 1-year timeout version of ArcView 9.3 to students for educational purposes.  Unlike the software we get under the University of Georgia ESRI Site License, you can install this on your personal computer.

Students, to get a copy, you need to get your professor to submit a request at this link http://gis.esri.com/industries/education/promo/index.cfm

Rhett Crowe