Every summer, I perform a self-imposed curriculum review of the five GIS courses I teach each year. I think about the topics included and their sequence, and which course they belong in. I make notes to myself throughout the year about what topics need work, what examples worked well or fell flat, or what new …
Simultaneously published at the ESRI Education Community Blog with thanks to Dr. Tom Baker, Education Manager, ESRI Inc. Many people working in the cross-disciplinary field of GIS education may have few co-workers in their organization that they can learn from, brainstorm ideas, or even just “talk shop”. They may be looking for ways that they …
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I am currently in the process of re-evaluating my PowerPoint slide designs and templates that I use for my lectures. As a rough estimate, I have somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 slides spread over many files. Over the last ten years, I have used the same template for all of them, with minor modifications. In …
Like many technology-oriented people, I consider myself to be a bit of a perfectionist. There’s something about the crisp, exact, digital world that makes me want to fuss over every pixel, every detail. To be clear, I’m not saying this in a braggy, interview way (“My worst fault? Well I guess you could say I’m …
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One of the courses I’m teaching this term is a senior GIS capstone course, with the simple title GIS Research Project. Students in this course are wonderful to work with. They have all taken at least three prior GIS courses, and often cartography and remote sensing courses as well. Of the approximately 160 students that …
