Hi Renee, Sounds like an awesome class. Especially if GeoCommons is writing the labs! :)
I think it would also be beneficial to have a map tile assignment using TileMill or something similar. As neogeographers and (would be)cartographers, learning to make a custom slippy map could be a good skill to have. Good luck! Britta On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Sean Gorman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >
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