Hamilton College ITS & Digital Humanities Initiative, and Colgate University sincerely appreciate your feedback on this workshop.
On the first day of the Geospatial Workshop, there were two presentations and two learning activities. The first presentation was "Spatial Thinking In Higher Education," an overview of spatial concepts and projects in the humanities and social sciences. Please tell us what you thought of this presentation.
How would you rate the overall quality of the Spatial Thinking In Higher Education presentation? [Required]
How would you rate this presentation's educational value? [Required]
Do you have any further comments or suggestions for improvement?
During the following learning activities, we used Google Earth to explore two case studies, the first was the Dust Bowl and the second was NOLA.
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How would you rate the overall quality of the NOLA learning activity? [Required]
The second presentation was "Haiti Crisis Mapping," a presentation on web-mapping and volunteered geographic information. Please tell us what you thought of this presentation.
How would you rate the overall quality of the presentation on Haiti Crisis Mapping? [Required]
During the second day of the workshop, we held four learning activities. The first activity was in Mapping Census Data. We experimented with online mapping tools for census data visualization. We then continued this activity following a short break.
How would you rate the overall quality of the first Mapping Census Data activity? [Required]
When we continued the "Mapping Census Data" activity, we learned how to map using Google Fusion Tables.
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After lunch, we learned about batch geocoding, multimedia, and online collaboration with Google Maps.
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During the last activity of day 2, we went over the basics of using Google Earth, as well as some georeferencing strategies.
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On the third and final day of the workshop, we held a two part learning activity in the morning and a two part presentation/ learning activity in the afternoon. In the first learning activity we covered thematic mapping and data manipulation in GeoCommons.
How would you rate the overall quality of the first GeoCommons learning activity? [Required]
After a short break, we continued learning about GeoCommons, this time focusing on timelines.
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After lunch, we began "Thinking About Place," a presentation/ learning activity in which we explored the cultivation of place-based perspectives, GPS, and geo-tagging.
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How would you rate the overall quality of the learning activity portion of "Thinking About Place?" [Required]
Finally, please describe how you might implement any aspect of what you learned by attending these geospatial sessions in your teaching and/or research.
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