Tag: ArcGIS
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Live lecture/webinar hybrid experiment
I’m currently teaching two sections of the same introductory GIS course, one face-to-face (F2F), and one online. This morning I tried a little experiment – I taught my regular F2F class in a lecture hall as usual, but I had a live webinar version of it online at the same time. It went remarkably well,…
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John Snow and serendipity
I was skimming through my Twitter stream this morning and came across a tweet from the intrepid Michael Gould (@michael_d_gould) mentioning David J. Unwin’s digital workbook “Numbers aren’t nasty: a workbook of spatial concepts“. I’m a big fan of David Unwin’s Geographic Information Analysis (co-authored with David O’Sullivan), so I downloaded the workbook (it’s free)…
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Using ArcGIS maps and tables in PowerPoint
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…
