Hi Renee, If you would like to use GeoCommons for the class we'd be happy to help out. We've had several classes testing the new groups functionality for school projects. Also several have built syllabuses around it if that is useful. Sounds like a great class!
Cheers Sean Sent from my iPhone On Jul 18, 2011, at 2:34 PM, R E Sieber <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm teaching a new course on Mapping Mashups and Beyond in the Fall. It's for second year undergraduate geographers and I hope it can set them on a path to being part of the next generation of geospatial data handlers/modelers/developers. I could use any help in helping me make this course successful. What I'm thinking of teaching is - Exploring digital earth architectures (e.g., Google Maps, Google Earth, Microsoft Bing Maps, OpenLayers, NASA WorldWind) - Writing KMLs and KMZs for digital earths - Contributing volunteered geographic information (VGI)* via Open Street Map (entering, editing, examining metadata) - Using geospatial Application Program Interfaces (APIs) - Geotagging and harvesting other geographic content, for example via web scraping - Developing online databases - Installing and deploying the WAMP software stack - Developing server/cloud-side geospatial applications - Collecting real time data (e.g., Twitter) - Working with location based services, for example with the iPhone SDK** and ushahidi - Exploring social, political, and legal issues of using VGI Remember that these are geographers so they'll have near zero computing/software engineering skills. Moreover, having been taught GIS, they'll be biased towards a particular way of thinking about geospatial data handling: it's only about making maps; it's desktop bound; and it focuses mainly on spatial analysis. So any advice you have on what I should be teaching and how I should be teaching it (e.g., how much of any of these bullet points) would be vastly appreciated! thanks, Renee * I know, I know. I don't like the term either. **I doubt I'll get to the SDK. It'll be hard enough to get them through WAMP. Here it's probably just ushahidi. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org -- This email and the information it contains are confidential and may be privileged. If you have received this email in error please notify me immediately. You should not copy it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. Internet communications are not secure and, therefore, FortiusOne does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message as it has been transmitted over a public network. If you suspect the message may have been intercepted or amended please contact the sender.
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