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Presented by the GA Secondary Phase Committee
Future FieldworkGIS for Beginners
GA Conference
Saturday 14th April 2007
Presented by the GA Secondary Phase Committee
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