 | Third Annual
Conference GIS Educators in Maine Friday, November 19, 2010 9:30am to 4:30pm, Augusta Civic Center, Maine ME GIS Champs Home
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Video of the conference sessions are available below, along with downloads of related materials.
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Click the links to see the sessions that interest you:
PLENARY SESSIONS FOR ALL ~ K12 TRACK ~ HIGHER EDUCATION TRACK
Looking for videos or materials from the 2009 conference? Click here.
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~ PLENARY SESSIONS ~
Welcome, Opening Remarks & Update on GIS Happenings in Maine
Tora Johnson
Video of Presentation ~ Download Slideshow (PDF, 4 mb)
Keynote Address: "Visual Analysis: Sailing the Seas of Information"
Keynote Speakers: Roger & Anita Palmer
Video of Keynote Presentation
NASA Earth Observation (NEO) website
Where the *Heck* is Matt? Home Page (Note: The titles on this site contain a word that may be inappropriate for young audiences.)
Video: Atomic Tom Performs using iPods on NYC Subway
Roger Palmer taught high school chemistry, physics, environmental and
field science and is currently teaching and developing curriculum for
the Texas Earth System Science course. He has been involved with NASA
initiatives using remote sensed imagery to teach math, science, and
geography to K-12 students. He holds an M.S. in Chemistry and conducts
research projects in the use of GIS to model integrated approaches to
environmental problems.
Anita Palmer taught middle and high school technology and social studies. Anita is co-author of the original “Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators,” and of the Teacher’s Guide to accompany the book, “Community Geography: GIS in Action!” She is an active member of Texas Alliance for Geographic Education and Geography Educators of Metroplex in Texas and a teacher consultant in the Geographic Alliance in Nevada. She was inducted into the Geographic Alliance in Nevada Hall of Fame in 2004.
Anita and Roger are co-authors of the newly released “Mapping Our World” and “Analyzing Our World,” as well as the GPS activity book “Going Places with GPS.” Both were members of the development team for the National Council for Geographic Education's “Birdseye View” primary school curriculum, and both helped develop and teach the Eastern Michigan University GIS Masters Certificate program for educators.
Together and separately Roger and Anita have conducted hundreds of teacher institutes, courses, and camps for students in the USA and in the international arena over the past ten years. Their Dallas-based company, GISetc, provides cutting-edge GIS professional development, curriculum and software support to K-12 and post-secondary educators and students.
Anita Palmer taught middle and high school technology and social studies. Anita is co-author of the original “Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators,” and of the Teacher’s Guide to accompany the book, “Community Geography: GIS in Action!” She is an active member of Texas Alliance for Geographic Education and Geography Educators of Metroplex in Texas and a teacher consultant in the Geographic Alliance in Nevada. She was inducted into the Geographic Alliance in Nevada Hall of Fame in 2004.
Anita and Roger are co-authors of the newly released “Mapping Our World” and “Analyzing Our World,” as well as the GPS activity book “Going Places with GPS.” Both were members of the development team for the National Council for Geographic Education's “Birdseye View” primary school curriculum, and both helped develop and teach the Eastern Michigan University GIS Masters Certificate program for educators.
Together and separately Roger and Anita have conducted hundreds of teacher institutes, courses, and camps for students in the USA and in the international arena over the past ten years. Their Dallas-based company, GISetc, provides cutting-edge GIS professional development, curriculum and software support to K-12 and post-secondary educators and students.
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~ K12 TRACK ~
(K12 Workshop) GPS to GIS
Anita Palmer and Roger Palmer, GISetc.
Video, Part 1 : About GPS (includes audio only) ~ Video, Part 2: Putting GPS Points on a Map (video & audio)
Link to ArcGIS Online site for creating GPS maps (Note: You may be prompted to install a free Silverlight plug-in)
GPS Loaner Programs: These programs offer loaner GPS receivers for little or no cost...
GISetc ~ Center for Community GIS email or call 207-778-0900 ~ Maine 4H Extension
UMaine at Machias email or call 207-255-1214
In
this workshop, we will introduce participants to GPS technology and
basic field data collection techniques, using Garmin eTrex GPS
receivers (or bring your own) to make and record observations near the
conference center. The recorded observations will be turned into a
simple database and mapped using free software that is compatible with
MLTI laptops.
(K12 Workshop) Free Web-Based GIS Tools for the Classroom
Charlie Fitzpatrick, Co-Manager, Esri Schools Program
Video of Presentation ~ Link to ArcGIS Online (Note: You may be prompted to install a free Silverlight plug-in)
In
this hands-on workshop, participants will learn to use free,
browser-based GIS tools to create maps, explore data, and meet state
and national learning standards. You will learn how to create your own
maps for class tomorrow, choosing from a multitude of high resolution
base maps, a limitless variety of hosted GIS data, and your own content
makers with images, text, and more. We'll even explore how you can
create and share your content with students and other educators.
(K12 Mini-Workshop) Using Google Fusion to Link Pictures to GPS Points in Google Earth
Ginny Brackett and MJ Stafford, Winslow (ME) Junior High School
Video of Presentation ~ Link to Google Fusion Page
Workshop Tutorial: Word format ~ PDF format ~ Sample Data Sheet (XLS)
Software: Google Earth ~ Picasa
At Winslow Jr. High School, we do some geocaching, and we have students
create Google Tours and make a map of the geocache sites. Our newest
project is to have students use a Google Fusion table to create a KMZ
file of the cache sites so that when the file is opened in Google
Earth, the balloon for each location will include a picture and text.
In this hands-on presentation, we will walk participants through the
Google Fusion process. We will provide pictures on Picasa and points
for participants to use in the exercise so that when they are finished
they will have created a KMZ file that opens in Google Earth.
Participants will need a Google account, a Picasa account, and a laptop
with Google Earth.
(K12 Presentation) Sailing to Buy a Wedding Dress: Using GIS in the Classroom to Geohistorical Inquiry
Margaret Chernosky, Geography and GIS Teacher, Bangor High School
Download Slideshow (PDF, 6 mb) ~ Download Lesson Plan (Word Format, 2 mb)
Download Full-Resolution Powerpoint (PPT, 26 mb)
Download Complete Lesson Package (ZIP, 55 mb)
(Package includes MyWorld GIS project file, GIS data files, complete lesson plan, full-resolution Powerpoint, & historical maps & documents)
This presentation will show how to do geohistorical inquiry in the
classroom with GIS to achieve learning standards. Focusing on the
example of an activity in which students map the journey of the two
masted, coastal schooner Industry in 1868 from her departure from a
small Nova Scotia harbor to her sinking in the North Atlantic, the
continuing journey of the fortunate crew and passengers to London, then
their return across the Atlantic back to Nova Scotia. The location of
the boat’s sinking is unknown, but using GIS and clues from the primary
documents, wind and current direction, ice margins and storm tracks;
students try to recreate the journey and the final ocean grave of the
schooner Industry.
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~ HIGHER EDUCATION TRACK ~
(HE Presentation) College-Community Partnerships: Preparing your studies to work on community based projects through courses, independent studies and internships
Eileen Johnson, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Video of Presentation ~ Download Slideshow (PDF, 5 mb)
As
part of its community based programs, Bowdoin College partnered with
two local land trusts in support of the land trusts' strategic planning
processes. A community based project was developed as part of a one
semester "Introduction to GIS" course. Students worked on teams to
develop components of the land trusts' strategic planning and focused
on landscape connectivity, agricultural land preservation, conservation
based affordable housing initiatives, and trail mapping and
development. During the spring semester, three students continued their
work, focusing on developing three separate models for the purpose of
habitat prioritization, agricultural land prioritization, and
conservation based affordable housing prioritization. In order to build
the capacity of the organizations to best utilize the information,
student interns were placed with the organization during the summer of
2010 and helped the two land trusts develop their GIS capacity. As a
result both land trusts have successful GIS programs, have drawn upon
the work of the students to submit applications for funding of
agricultural easements identified through the analysis, and have laid
the foundation for their strategic conservation plan. The learning
outcomes for the students has been to understand how to help
organizations identify spatial needs, build their GIS capacity and
translate their priorities into a strategic plan.
(HE Presentation) Helping Students Climb Higher: Forging Articulation Agreements among College and University GIS Courses & Programs ~ Tora Johnson, University of Maine at Machias
Download Slideshow (PDF, 4 mb)
Students
in Maine often have difficulty transferring their GIS courses from one
college or university to another and sometimes forgo further education
because of this stumbling block. An effective way to improve student
mobility through the educational system can be articulation agreements
that ensure seamless transfer of courses from one institution to
another. This presentation will cover the various types of articulation
agreements, reasons for pursuing them, potential barriers to
successful articulation efforts, and strategies that can help lead to
effective articulation.
(HE Workshop) Details that Matter: How Coordinate Systems Affect Measurements in GIS
Sam Knight and Elizabeth Teret, Blue Marble Geographics
Video of Presentation ~ Download Slideshow (PDF, 3 mb)
Download Workshop Data Package (includes shapefiles & Powerpoint files; ZIP, 6 mb)
One of the basic foundations of a mapping project is often overlooked
at the outset of the project. The selection of the coordinate reference
system is a key decision that affects the geometry of the map itself as
well as any measurements that are made from it. Looking at examples of
different measurements within the same area, this workshop will focus
on the significance of geodetically-based coordinate reference systems
and how an improper selection for an area can negatively affect the
results of any analysis or positioning done using that map, especially
when that data is taken into the real world. We will explore various
distortions between different base horizontal datums, grid projection
concepts such as scale factor and convergence, as well as the
significance of changing or transforming those models within the GIS
project. These exercises will be completed in ArcGIS (Windows
platform), with public data sourced from the Maine GeoLibrary website.
Data will be provided on CD handouts.
(HE Presentation) Basic Remote Sensing with ArcGIS 10
Tora Johnson, University of Maine at Machias
Video of Presentation ~ Download ArcGIS 10 Remote Sensing Tutorial
Click here to read the introductory material on the NASA website
Download the exercise data and tutorials for ArcGIS 9, ArcGIS 10 & Multispec- THIS IS A LARGE FILE! (ZIP ~ 110mb)
NASA has recently made all Landsat imagery from 1982 to the present
free and available for download, and the latest version of ESRI ArcGIS
includes image analysis functionality. In this talk, we'll walk through
a basic hands-on exercise using Landsat imagery of Maine using the new
tools in ArcGIS 10.
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This program is funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation as a component of a three-year project designed to improve and promote geospatial technology education in Maine. Additional support comes from the Maine GIS User Group, Maine Community College System, University of Maine System and Maine Geographic Alliance.
