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Future FieldworkGIS for Beginners

GA Conference

Saturday 14th April 2007

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Objectives

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What are we going to do ?What are you going to do ?

• Explain what GIS is, and what it can be used for• Introduce a range of GIS software• Experience using GIS software• To provide a range of ideas and resources for

immediate use & give you the motivation to use GIS in your schools

• Collect data and produce an outcome• Think of how you might be able to use GIS in your

geography teaching…

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What is GIS ?

“GIS has the ability to store, retrieve, manipulate and analyse a range of spatially related data”

The user can:

• ask questions of data related to the map

• search for patterns and distributions

• investigate the underlying relationships between different sets of data

Article in Geography Review: March 2007

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Who are we ?

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Potential benefits of GIS

• Spatial Understanding

• Enquiry learning

• Identifying relationships

• Vocational element

• Motivation(Thanks to Tom B)

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Barriers to GIS use• Perceived complexity

• Cost of software/availability of hardware

• Time

• Access to data in appropriate formats

• School level issues

• Lack of compulsion

• Limited evidence of impact(Thanks to Tom B)

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New National Curriculum

• Referred to specifically in the new PoS

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New National Curriculum

• Referred to specifically in the new PoS

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OCR Pilot GCSE

• GIS an optional unit in Year 11 of Pilot GCSE

• Can e-mail some documents produced by Rob Clemens of West Exe Technology College for recent day for 3rd cohort centres for GCSE Pilot

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Quality Mark / Conference

• One of sections involved in the criteria for meeting the Quality Mark (see other SPC workshop…)

GIS @ Conference

• Teacher to Teacher sessions

• Exhibitors

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Continuums

FREE EXPENSIVE

EASY TO USE

COMPLICATED

Often web based

BASIC SOPHISTICATED

Sometimes a ‘cut-down’ version

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Some suggestionsWeb based• Mouseprice• Maplecroft Maps• OS GIS Zone• MAGIC• Google Earth Version 4• Dakini Project

Commercial packages• AEGIS3: “an educational GIS”• Digital Worlds• Infomapper

High end• ESRI ArcGis / ArcVoyager

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Data ideas

• Environmental Quality Index (EQI)

• Mobile phone reception: Sitefinder

• Noise levels

• Pedestrian counts

Many more at site of King Edward VI 5 Ways

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ACTIVITY

This will involve:

• AEGIS

• GPS Visualiser / GE Graph

• Web based ‘GIS’: Infomapper

Over to Tom and Alan…

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Next steps…Some ideas from Fred Martin…

Also try new Google Maps feature (FREE)

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Plenary

• Feedback on activity

• Ongoing concerns / barriers to use

• Ideas for further development ?

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Other sources

GA GTIP Pagehttp://www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/gis/http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/thinkpieces/gis

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Other sources

RGS GIS Pagehttp://www.gis.rgs.org

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To take away

Delegate Packs

Infomapper: spatial filing system (not a true GIS, but very interesting…) – go for a demo with Charles Worth and ask about a special deal…

Check out the full details at

http://www.geographypages.co.uk/conf07.htm