GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2007

UNIVERSITY OF DERBY : 13th - 14th April, 2007

GEOGRAPHY FUTURES

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The GA Secondary Phase Committee presented a workshop at this conference on Saturday 14th April

Called FUTURE FIELDWORK: GIS for BEGINNERS

I led the session, with additional contributions by Tom Biebrach, Alan Kinder  and Fred Martin - a dream team !

Check the GA WEBSITE for more on the conference and to link through to downloads of materials...

Go to my ILLUSTRATED REPORT ON THE CONFERENCE

Further details

There were quite a few GIS sessions at the conference, but none of them like this one....

Each delegate received a pack containing 2 CD ROMs and other printed materials. These were assembled from a range of sources. Thanks to all the people involved in producing these. Worksheets and other materials will be provided on the day. You will go away complete with a range of activities to use in the classroom.

AIMS OF THE SESSION

Exploring a CONTINUUM of complexity and cost

Identification of reasons for use of GIS and barriers to their use in the classroom

Suggestions for activities and uses of GIS (thanks to Fred Martin for this)

Ordnance Survey - thanks to Roger Jeans for support and resources

Multimap - link with GPS handset to record positions

ESRI: details on free ArcVoyager Special Edition (as seen on Teachers TV with Fred)

Aegis 3 - Advisory Unit - many thanks to Diana Freeman for her support, and to Helen Young for sending a CD of resources that she has used when training people in the use of AEGIS3 - Aegis 3 also comes with MASTERMAP and GOAD modules.

AEGIS 3 READER

Thanks to Tom B for posting me my GPS handset.

Infomapper at Webbased - thanks to Charles Worth (more to come on this later in the month) - special discount available to delegates

Google Earth - Easy GPS - GPS Visualiser & GE GRAPH (FREE)

EASY GPS - free software download

GPS Visualiser to convert the data to KMZ - to view in Google Earth

Thanks to all these people too for their efforts.

Bob Lang and colleagues at King Edward VI 5 Ways School, Birmingham for their willingness to share details of their work with GIS

RGS-IBG - GIS evaluation of different software & mini-site produced by David Rayner and team...

Thanks to TOM BRAMALD of GEOMATICS for the loan of a series of GPS handsets for the fieldwork.

OTHER WEBLINKS

Check out http://www.trolleyspotting.co.uk for interesting use of GIS in several cities...

Also check out TEACHERS TV for a program featuring FRED MARTIN looking at ARCVOYAGER Special Edition - these can be viewed on the Teachers TV website

Fred will be going through some of the uses that he has made of GIS with his students...

There is also another TEACHERS TV programme with an AST using GIS with students on fieldwork (see link on powerpoint)

GIS in National Parks - Exmoor, Dartmoor etc. - base map with other information....

http://www.infomapper.com - new version of software now available from April 2007 - this is not a true GIS, but a spatial filing and mapping system which links with a huge range of maps.

MAPLECROFT MAPS

MAGIC website

Google Maps has a new MY MAPS feature with drawing tools, which allows the production of SHADED AREAS which could, at a push, be turned into coloured layers to represent the results of fieldwork data collection.

British Geological Survey's online GEOLOGY MAP: can add and remove layers showing rock type to explore the link between geology and scenery.

Many thanks to the ADVISORY UNIT for their support for the workshop with software and advice.

Don't forget that the full details are now on the GA website, and an illustrated report will be included in the May 2007 issue of the GA Magazine. Also check out Fred Martin's book E-GEOGRAPHY -  a great resource...

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