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GIS and Data Visualisation
Some ideas for making it happen…
Image: W
outer van Buuren
http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
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Last three years…
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“…to be educated is not to have arrived at a destination, it is to travel with a different view...”
R S Peters
Image: Nick Totterdell
@GeoBlogs
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Last 3 months• Royal Geographical Society – Discovering the Arctic / From the
Field• Google - World Wonders Project – Pilgrim’s road in Spain• Badger: Better GCSE grades textbook – due April 2012• Ordnance Survey: Digimap – education pack – 34 activities• Twig: Notes for geography films & new films on Earth Science –
BETT Award for best secondary digital content• TeachIt Geography – editing and curation pre-launch• CPD around the country and beyond• Mission:Exploring – runner-up Educational Writers’ Award 2012• Harper Collins: iGCSE textbook / online updates & children’s book• Open University: VITAL Geography portal management • National Geographic Education – GAW materials used across USA• GA GIS courses with ESRI UK…
Last five days…
GIS / Spatial Visualisation…
• Continuum from one to the other• OFSTED confused as to what GIS – Google
Earth….
GIS
Link between map & dataCan be queried to produce an
answer…
GIS doesn’t have to produce a map as an output..
New in April 2012
Surname Profiler – CASA - UCL
ArcGIS Online Explorer http://www.arcgis.com/explorer/
Graeme Eyre http://graemeeyre.info/?p=693
http://www.arcgis.com/explorer/?open=1a978811de494ecd9721cabb004fabd2
GIS and Problem Based Learning
Students are often so used to a single “right” answer, and are initially baffled by PBL-based strategies and tools that engage
those strategies such as GIS. Typically when I work with students using GIS, they ask me, “Is my map right?” In
response, I ask them a question: “Does your map help you understand the problem or issue, and help you answer the
questions being asked?” But, given time, they begin to understand that the issues they are grappling with are
complex, and there might not be a single correct answer. Certainly, their final set of maps is not the end goal, but a
means to an end in their enquiry-driven investigation.Joseph Kerski, ESRI
Speaking at the GA Conference on web-based GIS
Visualisation of Data
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2011/world-population-data-sheet/world-map.aspx#/map/population
Worldmapper
http://www.viewsoftheworld.net
• Visualisation
Ben Hennig: creator of Worldmapper maps• GA – Getting it Started on GA website• Where’s the Path• Olympics Games Lanes – mapping the lanes…
Oliver O’Brienhttp://oliverobrien.co.uk/
Geography
Writing the earth
GIS in theCurriculum
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“the subjects comprising a course of study…”
What is curriculum making ?
“the creation of interesting, engaging and challenging educational experiences which draw upon teacher knowledge and skills, the experiences of students and the subject resource..”
What is curriculum making ?
“the creation of interesting, engaging and challenging educational experiences which draw upon teacher knowledge and skills, the experiences of students and the subject resource..”
What is curriculum making ?
“the creation of interesting, engaging and challenging educational experiences which draw upon teacher knowledge and skills, the experiences of students and the subject resource..”
GIS as Vocational Skill
Vocational Resources on GA website
Digimap for Schools
Landscape in a Box
Teacher Choices
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Geographical Enquiry
Keeping up to date…