Thanks once again to the colleagues who joined me and my colleague John for the GIS event on Thursday of this week.
A reminder of the OS Open Data release.
My DVDs arrived on Wednesday, just in time for the event. They took around 5 days to arrive and were nicely packaged and (importantly) free of charge...
One of the useful resources that I have in reserve for the 2nd day of the course (which is in May) is a resource from the Grammar School at Leeds, which was produced for a day at the RGS-IBG.
There is a very useful summary of the value of GIS in a document called "Spatial Thinking: Catching the Wave", written by Mark Smith and Steve Dunn from the school.
It includes some very useful advice from a former student at the Grammar School, who is now studying Geography at university...
"GIS helped me to explore and understand the geographical concepts I was studying at school as it brought geographical theories and statistics to life. The use of GIS meant that instead of merely talking about disease mapping and the spread of diseases we could actually watch how a particular disease had spread and numbers increased..." - she also talks about the benefits that having used GIS gave her when she started her undergraduate studies...
A great reminder that if we use GIS in schools, students will be prepared for future opportunities....
A reminder of the OS Open Data release.
My DVDs arrived on Wednesday, just in time for the event. They took around 5 days to arrive and were nicely packaged and (importantly) free of charge...
There is a very useful summary of the value of GIS in a document called "Spatial Thinking: Catching the Wave", written by Mark Smith and Steve Dunn from the school.
It includes some very useful advice from a former student at the Grammar School, who is now studying Geography at university...
"GIS helped me to explore and understand the geographical concepts I was studying at school as it brought geographical theories and statistics to life. The use of GIS meant that instead of merely talking about disease mapping and the spread of diseases we could actually watch how a particular disease had spread and numbers increased..." - she also talks about the benefits that having used GIS gave her when she started her undergraduate studies...
A great reminder that if we use GIS in schools, students will be prepared for future opportunities....
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