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Save the Date – GIS & Spatial Thinking in College conference at Bucknell in...
Bucknell University will be hosting a weekend conference on GIS / Spatial Thinking in mid-November. A call for participation was announced today. Too bad we’ll have to make choices about session...
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Only *true* academics naturally write sentences like these, or feel peas...
Write your own academic sentence, via the University of Chicago Writing Program. Exactly. h/t Chris Blattman
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a new lit and map app from Iowa
In the inaugural issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, a group of authors shared their work on the “City of Lit”: Collaborative Research in Literature and New Media. There’s...
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Mapping People Symposium: October 31 at Univ of Redlands
We’re gearing up for our first (annual?) Symposium on Mapping People. Join us for this one-day event on October 31. We’ll explore the joys and challenges of mapping social and cultural data, learning...
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Spatial Thinking across the College Curriculum, first round of thoughts
Earlier this week I was part of a 2-day conference on Spatial Thinking across the College Curriculum, in Santa Barbara. There were about 46 of us, a broad mix of largely comprised of geographers and...
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a few more thoughts on our Spatial Thinking across the Curriculum conference
During that first day of our Spatial Thinking conference, we had some discussions about *what* spatial content should (could? would?) be covered in these efforts. As we considered that need, Lynn...
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Final thoughts on the STACC Conference
Basically, here’s where I think some of the tensions emerged during and after the December 2012 Spatial Thinking Across the College Curriculum gathering. Tension #1: Thinking about spatial thinking –...
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Spatial Thinking at Marymount College
Next week I’ll be visiting Marymount College, speaking about the roles of spatial thinking and geography for reasoning and communication. I will also have the opportunity to visit a number of classes...
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GIS and University Administrators
From our new website, TeachGIS.org, we published a White Paper today that focuses on how to talk to university administrators about GIS. First, make sure they know what GIS is, and what it’s not...
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DePauw virtually reconstructs its former campus with geospatial tools
A team at DePauw University used SketchUp to recreate what they believe their campus to have looked like historically, building-wise. Apparently a challenge because whole buildings have come and gone...
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model for professional development at UVM
In the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Vermont, faculty are involved with a year-long initiative to learn more about maps and mapping. I had a chance to be part of their August 2013...
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What’s my new job?
Since the summer, I have been working for UCGIS, the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, as their Executive Director. Translation: I manage the business-related operations of a...
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Future of R with GIS
I was a total newbie to R before spring 2014. Then it was a little trial by fire, trying to learn just enough to keep up with grad students in a class I was co-teaching. Thank goodness for the “co-”...
View ArticleThat time of the semester again
This week we’ll broach the topic of datums, coordinate systems, and map projections in the GIS class that I teach at Cornell. It’s week 5+ of the semester, just enough into this stuff so that there’s...
View Articlegeospatial Professional Certification options
OGC, the Open Geospatial Consortium, is hosting a survey to collect thoughts on OGC-related Professional Certifications. I’m a huge fan of the mission of OGC and its methods as well, and to allow...
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Treasure of data access for GIS&T domain
I was about to jump into my regularly scheduled workday when I came across this data visualization tool for educational statistics, whose primary sources are EXACTLY the same ones that I’d been...
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Tracking GIS&T Degrees vs. Workforce
And another thing, told in simple terms from this landing-page image you too can create from this Data USA site. That number of degrees awarded in 2016 (1,923, which they measure as growing at 5.31%)....
View ArticleA Few Hits and a Miss
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the annual conference that Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis holds. This year the theme was Space & Time in Data Science, and panelists shared...
View Articlea GIS kind of week
A friend from work asked me today if I quilted and from there it became an opportunity to upload some new quilt pictures, then it became pretty clear that I hadn’t actually posted anything new in a...
View ArticleGlobal Conversations around GIS and Education
Tomorrow we’ll host the 2nd in the Americas’ series of panel discussions around what it means to be a resilient educator of GIS and GIScience, and what it means to implement technologies in support of...
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