Harrisburg University student Steve Cline is using a balloon to capture imagery of a local island. The big issue in using these kits: helium shortage. Maybe it's time for kites!
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A new Kindle book (the authors refer to it as a manual) titled Gaining Competency With GIS: How-to Manual for ArcGIS Desktop Version 10 [Kindle Edition] offers help in gaining competency with ArcGIS. It references the ArcGIS 10 docs and I gather provides step by step instructions for tools and extensions. It claims to be based on the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) but refers to the that document as "Geotechnical Competency Model" throughout. I wonder if that editing error is in part related to an English class cited in the acknowledgements.
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Students with the Paragould High School EAST Lab Program [AR] are using their computer knowledge to help Paragould Police monitor sex offenders living in the city limits.
"They are updating our sex offender zoning map," said Captain Greg Trout with PPD.
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The University of Redlands has received a $75,000 grant from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to develop a Spatial Decision Support (SDS) system that calculates and maps the potential impacts of energy projects on wildlife.
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Danielle Feoranzo, a student at Westwood Regional High School in the Township of Washington, recently earned her Girl Scout Gold Award by painting a map of the United States on the playground at the Jessie F. George Elementary School.
I've read lots of stories about maps being painted on playgrounds. What I like about this one is explained by the school pricipal:
"She facilitated a lesson for our fourth grade students that focused on the United States. Using the map, the students were able to move about the country while showcasing the content knowledge. It was a great experience for our students and a gift from Danielle that will last for many years to come."
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A Clarkson University research team, led by Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Professors Pier Marzocca, Suresh Dhaniyala and Lin Tian, is readying its unmanned aerial vehicle, the Clarkson RAVEN (Research Aerial Vehicle for Experimental Needs), to acquire wind turbulence data.
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The University of Redlands is pleased to announce the third cohort of faculty LENS (LEarNing Spatially) Fellows. Led by Dr. Diana Sinton, director of Spatial Curriculum and Research, LENS is a campus-wide initiative that promotes spatial literacy as a foundational component in curriculum, programs, and research. In the coming year, the LENS Fellows will work on curricular ideas around the theme of “Mapping Communities.”
The four university faculty members from different departments will participate in a summer institute on campus.
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Fort Lee plans to become the first school system in the nation to use the MapEverywhere software, which provides detailed campus floor plans to emergency responders via a smart phone application that does not rely on Internet or Wi-Fi connections, officials said.
Maps of each school and information about explosive chemicals and potentially dangerous electrical wirings will be available on an application that police and other authorized personnel can upload during a hostage, fire or other crisis.
I don't like the idea that it must be downloaded WHEN an incident is found. Cost: $495/month.
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Some advice from Brian Timoney to stduents:
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That's my title for the session in which my paper assigned. Here's a recap:
The team from the University of Redlands showed off different ways to use ArcGIS Online to serve the needs of different faculty on projects using GIS. That might sound trivial, but it's not since there are so many ways to take advantage of data sharing (layer packages, map packages, Web services), tools to access that data (ArcGIS for the Desktop, ArcGIS Explorer Online, ArcExplorer Desktop), and ways to manage access (groups, a single log in for a class), etc. It'd be great if there were a flow chart or wizard to help educators and instructional designers find the right combination for a given situation. I'd start building one by getting all the data out of David Smith's brain about three very different projects he supported.
Jesse Rouse detailed his plans for a remote sensing video series and educational resource (observingtheearth.com) he's developing under a North Carolina Space Grant. The content is aimed at grades 6-12 in formal and informal education settings and is hosted in Blackboard. His discussion reminded me a bit of the work I did on the Geospatial21 Project for the Dept. of Labor. It was to include (it never came to fruition) three online lessons, one each on GIS, GPS and remote sensing.
I gave a live version of a part of an online lesson I developed about determining whether online sources (not data) are authoritative. It was awesome - with lots of great observations from students, faculty, librarians and others. The three resources we explored to determine their authoritativeness are noted here.
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