Description
| Agenda
| Instructors & Participants
| Travel & Accommodations
Introducing GIS for Undergraduate Social Science Courses
August 1-6, 2005: San Fransisco, CA
Schedule
Monday through Friday will
be intense structured teaching days with a tight lecture/lab schedule. Workshop
days start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday afternoon, participants are invited to a historical walking tour
of San Francisco. Participants may choose to forego the walking tour and remain
at SFSU to work with workshop staff on how to tailor data to specific geographic
areas and how to merge their own data with data from other sources.
On Saturday, Richard LeGates,and XiaoHang Liu will describe NSF’s evaluation
materials available from NSF’s On-line Evaluation Resource Library (OEREL)
and the SPACE website and lead a discussion of how to assess impacts of introducing
spatial analysis into the social science courses.
Participant Data Needs
The workshop schedule includes optional time for you to work with and analyze
your own data. Participants wanting to tailor workshop content to their own
interests should compile their own data sets (assuming appropriate permissions
are in place and that there is no risk of disclosure of individual data).
If you do not have suitable data, sample data sets from all lab sessions
and sample data from the software are available. Additionally, there is a
wealth of data available to applicants via the Internet (at various credible
and verifiable sites). You may wish to explore complied list
of data sources from the Institute for Geographic Information Science at SFSU.
| Sunday,July
31: |
Travel
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All participants should be in San Francisco Sunday evening.
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| Monday,
August 1: |
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9:00 |
Welcome
- Overview of SPACE and SFSU workshop
- Personnel, and logistics
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9:30 |
Overview of spatially integrated social science
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Janelle
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10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:30 |
Pedagogy in undergraduate GIS teaching  (320kb)
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Rebich
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| 10:30 |
Breakout groups
- Discuss how participants plan to incorporate GIS into their
courses
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11:45 |
Breakout group reports
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Rebich |
12:00
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Lunch |
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1:30
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Spatial data and its modeling in
GIS
- Spatial data
- Overview of vector and raster GIS models
- Common file formats
- Map Projections
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Liu |
3:00
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Break |
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3:15
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ArcMap Operation basics
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LeGates
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3:30
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Lab on basic GIS operations
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LeGates |
5:00
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Break
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5:30
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Reception |
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| Tuesday,
August 2: |
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9:00 |
Introduction to vector GIS
- The vector GIS model: points, lines, and polygons
- Querying
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Classifying features
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LeGates |
10:00
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Lab on Vector GIS operations. Querying. Classifying features.
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11:00 |
Break |
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11:15
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Computerized cartography. Map symbolgy. |
LeGates |
12:00
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Lunch |
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1:30
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Computerized cartography. Map symbolgy.
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LeGates
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| 3:15 |
Break
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1:30
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Working with attribute tables
- Structure of attribute table
- Joining and relating data in Excel or SPSS to ArcMap Attribute tables
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Nickel |
4:00
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Lab on working with attribute tables
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Nickel
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| Wednesday,
August 3: |
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9:00 |
Introduction to raster GIS |
Liu |
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10:30 |
Break |
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10:45 |
Lab exercise on raster-based spatial
analysis |
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12:00
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Lunch |
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1:30
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Optional open lab. Participants work on their own, individually, or in groups
(with technical support).
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2:30
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Walking tour of San Francisco* (optional)
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| Thursday,
August 4: |
| 9:00 |
Vector-based spatial analysis -
Overlay, clip, dissolve, buffer, and related operations etc.
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Nickel |
| 10:30 |
Break
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10:45 |
Lab exercise on vector based spatial data analysis
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12:00
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Lunch followed by keynote
speaker |
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1:00
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Keith Clarke (UCSB): “Spatially
enhanced social science”
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| 2:00 |
Break
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2:15
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Group discussion of how participants might incorporate spatial analysis
into their teaching
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Clarke
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| 3:00 |
Break
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3:15
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Spatial data acquisition
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Liu
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4:15
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Lab exercise on geocoding
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| Friday,
August 5: |
| 9:00 |
Working with census data
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Pamuk
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| 10:00 |
Break
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10:15
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Lab exercise on downloading census data and preparing a data set tailored
to your area and interests
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Pamuk
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12:00
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Lunch
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| 1:30 |
Evaluating spatial learning outcomes (193kb)
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Rebich
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| 3:15 |
Break
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| 3:15 |
Open lab with technical support
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| Saturday,
August 6: |
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9:00 |
Closing workshop procedures |
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9:15 |
Demo of GIS resources |
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10:30
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Break |
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10:45
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Participants discussion on curriculum
design |
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12:00
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Lunch |
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| 1:00 |
Reports/discussion of curriculum design discussions
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| 2:00 |
Workshop closes
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* “San Francisco By Foot” walk
We are proud to offer our famous guided walk through the historic districts
of San Francisco hosted by Max Kirkeburg. Max has been leading a class by
the same name for a number of years and will wow you with his insight and
historical knowledge of the area.
Weekends
If you arrive early or stay additional time following the workshop, you may
wish to explore some of the amenities of the region and special events. Some
of these are listed at:
http://www.sanfrancisco.com/
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/north_america/san_francisco/
Other Questions?
Contact Christian Brown for questions
regarding funding and the instructional programs, and Richard
LeGates for
questions regarding the workshop and accommodations.
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