GIS in Film Studies – GIS at Bucknell

We recently launched the conference website for the upcoming Bucknell-hosted conference GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Basic info is shown below, but please check out the conference website for details and updates as they become available.

About the Conference:

When: November 16-18, 2012
Where: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Click here for a map.
Details: Click on the pages shown on the menu above to access information onregistration, lodging, conference schedule, and submitting presentations and maps.
Deadlines: Deadline for early bird registration is September 15, 2012. Deadline forsubmitting presentations and maps is September 21, 2012.
Format: We have chosen a work-group format for the conference in order to maximize opportunities for discussion and brain-storming amongst participants. The main day of the conference will feature five work-group sessions. Each session will consist of 45 minutes of presentations and 45 minutes of open discussion organized around a theme. We are seeking 3 presenters and 1 chairperson for each of the 5 sessions. See the submissions page for a detailed description of each of the session topics:

1a (Concurrent with 1b) – Mapping Human Activity – Qualitative Analysis GIS
1b (Concurrent with 1a) – Quantitative Analysis & Technical Applications of GIS
2 (Single group) – GIS in Pedagogy
3a (Concurrent with 3b) – GIS in Community Outreach & Service Learning
3b (Concurrent with 3a) – Software & Data Issues in GIS Instruction

Goals: Desired outcomes include: (1) providing mutual support for imaginative and challenging applications of spatial technology in undergraduate education; (2) fostering potential collaborative efforts between and within participant schools, such as joint research initiatives and/or shared resources for data, web maps and teaching materials, and; (3) creating a regional community of faculty and GIS/IT staff to interact on a regular basis, share information, and exchange ideas about the priorities identified during the conference.

This event is sponsored by Library & Information Technology at Bucknell University. Should you have any questions, please contact Janine Glathar at jlg046@bucknell.edu or (570) 577-1990.

In spring 2010, Bucknell student Kate Matelan, ’10 worked with film professor Eric Faden to produce a documentary film focused on her experiences as a disabled student on campus. To illustrate the differences between navigating the Bucknell campus in a wheelchair vs. on foot, Kate and I developed a GoogleEarth project with placemarks and travel paths to mark and annotate both her route and an able-bodied student’s route to a class held in Coleman 221.

In the film a 4-panel split screen (aka ’24’ style) approach was used to simultaneously present a GoogleEarth fly-over of each student’s travel path synced to video footage of the students describing the course of their daily trip to Coleman 221. See video excerpt and screenshot from GoogleEarth project below. I’ll make the KML file available as soon as I can figure how to to do that on WordPress.

Note: video footage was shot using several cameras including the GoPro Hero and Kodak Zi8. Editing was done in Final Cut Pro.