GIS DAY SAVANNAH » Educators

SSU Summit on Environmental Entrepreneurship

Jason Lee, SAGIS — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:29:45 +0000

On April 10, 2009, the annual Summit on Environmental Entrepreneurship, sponsored by Dionne Hoskins of NOAA and Savannah State University, was held at Savannah State in Thunderbolt. SAGIS was asked to attend and participate as a panelist, so we went to do our part. The format was interesting: each panelist gave a brief bio to the students, then the students were allowed to ask questions of the panelists. The students were from a variety of disciplines, from engineering to public administration. Many of the questions were specific to the environmental components of our individual jobs, but there were also thoughtful questions about the larger role of environmental issues in shaping current business-related applications and entrepreneurship. The topic of GIS was of utmost importance to the students, who were all looking for ways to use GIS for their particular interests!

ESRI Education User Conference

Lara Hall, SAGIS — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:48:54 +0000

Explore the Power of Spatial Thinking
Join ESRI July 11-14, 2009, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront in San Diego, California.

Take part in this exceptional forum for collaboration between educators, administrators, researchers, librarians, and museum professionals with all levels of geographic information system (GIS) experience.

http://www.esri.com/events/educ/index.html

GIS Day update & article

Lara Hall, SAGIS — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:46:23 +0000

The GIS Day Committee is back to work preparing for GIS Day Savannah 2009. So far this year, we are working on updating the event format to improve the students’ educational experience. While we are working on these details, we are also updating the sponsorship and registration forms for 2009. In the meantime, the Spring 2009 ArcUser from ESRI has a great article describing how a teacher in Kansas has used GIS in his classrom to inspire students to solve real world problems, “Combining Math, GIS, and Community Service.” The article can be found at the following link: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0309/obenhaus.html.

Preparation for the 2008 GIS Day

Noel Perkins, SAGIS — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:22:23 +0000

As we get closer to GIS Day (only 4 more days) we are all getting ready for the event, in preparation for the event we sent all participating educators an informational packet. It is our hope that teachers will be able to utilize some of the materials to prepare students for the event. If the schedule does not allow this, teachers may want to simply hand out the GIS Day Vocabulary sheets to their students prior to the field trip. At the event, teachers will receive a follow up CD including an answer key to the Map Gallery Scavenger Hunt and digital copies of the maps used.

We hope to be able to make this available to all others soon, please check the site for dates of availability.