Future Fieldwork GIS for Beginners

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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 _at_ Conference
• Teacher to Teacher sessions
• Exhibitors

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Continuums
FREE
EXPENSIVE
Often web based
COMPLICATED
EASY TO USE
BASIC
SOPHISTICATED
Sometimes a cut-down version
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Some suggestions

• Web 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 Page
• http//www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/gis/
• http//www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/thinkpie
  ces/gis

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Other sources

• RGS GIS Page
• http//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