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On November 6-8, 2017, NAPSG Foundation’s Search & Rescue GIS Working Group gathered with more than 50 Search & Rescue (SAR) leaders and GIS responders at the Esri Office in Broomfield, Colorado, for the highly anticipated 9th Annual Search & Rescue GIS Workshop. All resources (training...

Lesson: Prepare for Search and Rescue Incidents | Learn ArcGIS After a few years of teaching how to deploy MapSAR Online,Alix Vezina and I decided it was time to open up the no-cost training to a much wider audience. In this lesson, you'll create a web map to prepare data for search...

I'm gearing up for next semester's Introduction to GIS, a course required of all Geography (and Social Studies Education) majors at Ball State University. In this course, I attempt to provide learning opportunities such that students can learn the technical skills associated with geographic...

I'm facilitating a new take on an existing course at Ball State University this semester, developed with support from BSU's Emerging Media Initiative at the Center for Media Design. GEOG448/548 is now 'GIS Workshop', drawing on my previous experience supporting a similar course in the Dept. of...

A article has just been posted to the BSU "Making an Impact" series. Articles from this series are randomly displayed on BSU's main homepage. The direct link is here. An excerpt: أكثر...

For one academic year, I've attempted a different type of approach to an introductory course in GIS, drawing on various curricular strategies of Nadine Schuurman, Sarah Elwood, Francis Harvey, and Meghan Cope. In this course, students work through introductory technical skills, while...

At the conclusion of GIS Workshop (GEOG448/548), each student team presented their findings to community partners. While all the student teams created products that will greatly assist their community partners, the animal shelter project, in particular, captured the attention of the community...

Several maps were produced by students of the 2010 GIS Workshop at Ball State University. I've compiled a selection of these maps into a lower resolution PDF, see below. City of Muncie Strays in 2009: City of Muncie Strays in 2009 by Census Tract: Muncie and Age Over 65 Mobility: Muncie...

The folks over at the Center for Media Design (thanks, Ben, Tommy, and Erin!) have pieced together this snazzy YouTube video documenting the 2010 GIS Workshop. It contains brief interviews with community partners and my own summary comments on the conclusion of the workshop. أكثر...

Last week, at the Imagining America conference in Seattle, WA, Sarah Elwood and I co-organized a workshop titled, "Participatory Mapping: Engaging Sites, Mobilizing Knowledges". With the help of Jin-Kyu Jung, Ryan Burns, and Josef Eckert (and greatly informed by the work of Jentery Sayers), 22...

I've been wanting to create a subgrouping of my bibliographic database on the topic of 'critical GIS' for some time. I've finally completed a draft (no doubt, a work in progress)! I hope others will find it useful, as I've enjoyed revisiting some of these key interventions. To see the...

Erin Moore and Ben Reckelhoff at the Center for Media Design are promoting this year's GIS Workshop with a nice article (below) and short video as part of their February Emerging Media Initiative Update. أكثر...

In TSP's Sunday paper, Seth Slabaugh gives a good overview of our interactions with community partners this semester, with quotes from two students: Ryan Cooper and Bryan Preston. Read the story, here. أكثر...

In fulfillment of the University of Kentucky Arts & Creativity Core Curricula, I'll be offering Digital Mapping next semester (UKC101, eventually GEO109). I'm excited about this course, as it will be an opportunity to experiment with web-based mapping tools to provide the foundation for more...

The Arts & Science PR team created this podcast describing the GIS Workshop course I'm offering this semester. More details about the partnerships/projects will be posted, soon. أكثر...

This video highlights/promotes a specific community-based GIS project in partnership with OpenLexington and Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Students in this year's GIS workshop will work with OpenLexington to collect data to demonstrate the utility of open data within municipal...

Students in my Digital Mapping course (UKC101, soon to be GEO109), with TAs Ryan Cooper and Sonya Prasertong, worked on a 'generative constraint' project -- a module that Jentery Sayers and I developed as part of our Huckabay Teaching Fellowship while at the University of Washington. The...

This semester I've helped to facilitate nine university-community partnerships in my upper-division GIS classroom (GEO509), drawing on previous instantiations of this program in 2011 and in 2010. The students will be presenting their work on these projects on May 2nd, and have composed...

It's very interesting to see a faculty position announced so clearly in "critical GIS"! Definitely feels like a first... Lecturer in Human or Environmental Geography (Critical GIS Specialism) Fixed-term for 2 years The Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London invites...

The design and marketing team in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky has finished producing a great video showcasing a couple university-community partnerships from my GIS Workshop course. Also see an article written by the UK PR team, copied below. [ See a previous...