In November 2012, Bucknell hosted the conference “GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum.’ Faculty and GIS specialists from more than 50 different universities in the U.S. and Canada participated in the conference, sharing challenges & successes and generating a wealth of ideas about how to embed spatial thinking throughout the undergraduate educational experience. Videos, presentations and posters from the conference are embedded below. Please visit the conference website for information and links to some of the resources that were shared during discussion (coming soon – not yet complete).
Video of Keynote Presentations:
Jeremy Crampton:
Anne Kelly Knowles:
Diana Stuart Sinton:
Keynote Presentations:
Jeremy Crampton, University of Kentucky (Geography), ‘Through a Scanner Darkly: Adventures in Top Secret America‘
Diana Sinton, University of Redlands (LENS – LEarNing Spatially), ‘Some Thoughts on GIS in Higher Education Today‘
Session 1 – Mapping Human Activity – Qualitative Analysis GIS:
Meghan Cope, University of Vermont (Geography), ‘Mapping Teen Mobilities: New Ethnographies for Digital Lives‘
Jon Caris, Smith College (Spatial Analysis Lab) and Andy Anderson, Amherst College (Academic Technology Services), ‘Spatial Techniques for Digital Humanities‘
Katherine Faull, Bucknell University (German/Comparative Humanities); David DelTesta, Bucknell University (History), ‘Red River, Black River, the Susquehanna River too: Student-Faculty Collaborations in the Spatial Humanities at Bucknell‘
Session 2 – GIS in Pedagogy:
Jeremy Donald, Trinity University (Library & IT); Mike Winiski, Furman University (Center for Teaching & Learning), ‘The Learning Cycle – A Tool for Course and Assignment Design‘
Karen Mulcahy, East Carolina University (Geography), ‘Making the Impossible Possible: A GIS Course Serving Diverse Purposes & Students‘
Ben Marsh, Duane Griffin, Janine Glathar, Bucknell University (Geography), ‘Student Trajectories Towards GIS Competence‘
Session 2 – GIS in Higher Education Community Outreach & Service Learning:
Beverly Wemple, University of Vermont (Geography), ‘Piloting a GIS course as a Service Learning Offering at the University of Vermont‘
Jeff Brunskill, Bloomsburg University (Environmental, Geographical and Geological Sciences), ‘GIS-Based Street Tree Inventories: A Review of an Ongoing Bloomsburg University Community Service Project‘
Tom Mueller, California Univeristy of Pennsylvania (Earth Sciences), ‘Undergraduate Use of PAView for Community Outreach‘
Posters:
- Corinna Keeler, Jon Caris (Smith College), ‘Smith College Mystery Map‘
- Ashraf Ghaly (Union College), ‘Using Cartographic Maps to Facilitate Data Appreciation for the Spatially Challenged‘
- Corinna Keeler (Smith College), ‘“Recipes for GIS Success”: Making GIS easier and more accessible though videos and humor‘ [Interactive]
- Kim Diver (Wesleyan), ‘GIS-based service learning at Wesleyan University: Contributing to the quality of open space in south central Connecticut’
- Kristen Lukens (St. Norbert’s College), ‘edTPA and GIS – A Perfect Match‘ [Interactive]
- Guillaume Turcotte (Villanova), ‘Web Based Mapping at Villanova University‘ [Interactive – best viewed in Internet Explorer]
- Reed Perkins (Queens College), ‘Across Grade Levels, Across Forests, Across Town: A K-5 and University Geospatial Outreach Project‘
- Salim Sawaya (ESRI), ‘Geo-Enabling Aid and Development – The Possibilities of Online and Mobile GIS‘ [Interactive]
- Carolin Ferwerda (Wellesley College), ‘Six Parts of a GIS’
- Rebekah Hupp ’13/Prof. Kevin Gilmore (Civil Engineering) (Bucknell), ‘Transport of Hydraulic Fracturing Water and Wastes in the Susquehanna River Basin’
- Christian Treat ’13/Prof. Michelle Oswald (Civil Engineering) (Bucknell), ‘Using GIS to Model Seal Level Rise Inundation‘
- Darin Rockwell ’13/Prof. Carl Kirby (Geology) (Bucknell), ‘Mapping Marcellus Shale Flowback Water Chemistry’
- Jason Muhlbauer ’13, Zac Hancock ’13, Matt Sirianni ’14, Darin Rockwell ’13, Robby Holler ’13, Mike Grasso ’13 with Profs. Rob Jacob (Geology), Craig Kochel (Geology) and Ben Hayes (Bucknell Environmental Center), (Bucknell), Various Posters on Miller Run Restoration Project
- Steffany Meredyk ’14, Bethany Dunn ’14/Prof. Katherine Faull (German/Comparative Humanities), ‘A Corridor of Fear: Stories along the Susquehanna River, 1754-1768‘
- Steffany Meredyk ’14/Profs. Katherine Faull (German/Comparative Humanities) and Duane Griffin (Geography) (Bucknell), ‘Not Merely Overrun, But Destroyed: The Sullivan Expedition Against the Iroquois Indians, 1779‘
- Prof. Song Chen (East Asian Studies) (Bucknell), ‘Patterns of Local Governance in Sichuan Region (960-1279)‘
