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GIS help us answer about: Location: What is at a given location?

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GIS help us answer about: Location: What is at a given location?

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  1. Nurturing the Engaged Student: Lessons from the Use of Writing Techniques in Geospatial Science ClassbyHenry BulleyAssistant Professor of Geography(Students: Stacy Tallberg & Kristina Schultz) Spring Semester Learning ColloquiumWriting Strategies across the CurriculumCentral Connecticut State UniversityThursday May 12, 2011

  2. What is a GIS? • Geographic Information System (GIS) consist of the hardware, software, and data to capture, manage, analyze, and display spatially geographically referenced information GIS help us answer about: • Location: What is at a given location? • Condition: Where are certain conditions satisfied? • Trends: What has changed since ...? • Patterns: What spatial patterns exist? • Modeling: What if ...? Hence: GIS is a powerful tool for representation and analysis of spatial information in the geosciences.

  3. Data Representation for GIS Analysis Major advantage of a GIS: It allows us to identify spatial relationships between thematic layers www.gembc.ca

  4. User Beware !!

  5. !! Welcome To The Geospatial Revolution!! • So Maps and Statistics can lie? • Or is it that we lie using these information? • My goal at CCSU is to help train the next generation of scholar-practionerswho will be come effective users of geospatial techniques, tools and products • Hence it is critical that students in my GIS classes appreciate the potential applications and implications of geospatial techniques, tools and products on policy and other real world derivatives

  6. Overview • In an effort to transform students from passive recipients on knowledge into active participants in an experiential learning venture, • I use an approach that helps students apply the concepts and tools of GIS (Geographic Information System) to solve real world problems, as a final project.  • A key aspect of the final project requires students to complete a quality literature review and develop a project proposal, which ultimately results in a poster presentation.  • I will discuss how engaged students benefit from a series of writing assignments, discussions, and academic poster presentation of their final project.  • My belief is that an engaged student in an experiential learning endeavor is an inspired student.  

  7. My GIS Classes at CCSU • Introduction to GIScience • Introduction to statistical and Geographic foundations of GIS • Introduction to GIS • Introduction to principles and techniques in GIS analysis • Hands-on practical labs each week • GIS Applications in Urban and Regional Planning • GIS Applications in Public Safety

  8. GIS 130 (Intro GIScience)Group Activity:5-10 mins • Form 5 groups • Go out in a different direction and observe: • Number of students with back pack • Asian, Hispanic, White, Black, Other • Number of students wearing jeans • Female, male • Number of students talking on their cell phone

  9. Data from Class Activity Sample Data summary (Spring 2011) This table was useful in explaining basic statistical concepts such as, Multivariate, Bivariate, and Univariate data to the students

  10. GIS 378 & 479 (GIS & GIS Applications)Final class project • The criteria for overall course grade are as follows: • Reading assignments 10% • Lab exercises 25% • Mid-term exam 30% • Final project** 35% • ** Final Project grade includes: • Proposal - 5% • Draft report - 5% • Poster session - 15% • Final report - 10%

  11. Key Aspect of Proposals & Final reports Guidelines for GIS Final Project Proposal • Max. number of 3 pages required for the proposal • Clear statement of the problem/research question • Project Goal and Objectives • Background/Significance of the Project - Be succinct • Project Design • Project timeline • Anticipated results/final Products and Dissemination • Student's personal statement • Project References – Maximum of 4 references!

  12. Students are not alone! I provide opportunities and material to help students accomplish their tasks. For Example: • Tutorial on how to do library search • Thanks to Reference Library Staff • Some useful links on Effective ways to read scientific articles http://www.lib.purdue.edu/phys/assets/SciPaperTutorial.swf • Some useful links on Effective ways to Find, Read & Cite articles http://www.muhlenberg.edu/depts/psychology/FindReadCite.htm • Tutorial on how to make an academic poster • Thanks to Sherry Pesino, IDTRC

  13. Outcomes Students develop strong critical thinking skills and appreciate the use role GIS as an effective tool in solving real world problems via: • Proposal development • Data exploration & Analysis • Academic Poster • Final project report

  14. Students Observation To add to my comments from the other day, I do appreciate the approach taken in class regarding our work with GIS this semester. Although it's good to have some general lab exercises in class – and it would have been great to have the FEMA application running sooner – a project that focuses on the use of real-world data and issues to me is the best approach. This gives us the benefit of showcasing an area of our own interest and it looks good on a resume to highlight our GIS project management skills. Gaining GIS skills are important, but it’s showing what can be done with them that gets noticed. Bryan Pavlik (Geog. graduate student)

  15. Personal Accounts • Kristina Schultz - GIS 130 (Fall 2010) Kristina Schultz - GIS 387 (Spring 2011) • Stacy Tallberg - GIS 387 (Spring 2011)

  16. AAG Annual MeetingApril 2011 Seattle,WA Henry Bulley CCSU Lee Ann Adams Current Student at CCSU Daniel Rees Former student from Clark University

  17. One of the four big trends in software development is Location-based applications (Bill Gates, Wireless 2000 Conference) • A location-based service (LBS) is defined as an information service provided by a device that knows where it is and is capable of modifying the information it provides based on that knowledge. • George Orwell‘s 1949 vision of the world in 1984 featured a Big Brother who was always watching. To what extent, 25 years after the predicted date, has Orwell‘s nightmare been realized? Any Questions

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