Education
Intro GIS Courses for American Indians
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 September 2008 21:23 Written by Rosemarie McKeon
UPDATE 8/29/08 There are still a few vouchers left for students to attend these courses, which covers tuition, food and
lodging! Please forward the news!
8/13/08 Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) offer training "opportunities for American Indians and those who work with Tribal entities, to attend introductory Metadata, GIS, GPS, new Technologies and Cartographic Design" courses. The classes are located at the U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia".
Upcoming course:
TEC7132 - GPS Introduction for Natural Resource Field Personnel
Offered 9/10-12/2008.
Check site for additional courses and more information:
http://www.fgdc.gov/training/fgdc-fws-training
Curriculum at Stanford and Native American Cartographic Influences
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 September 2008 12:37
The Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford University has developed an excellent series of worksheets and lesson plans relating to the impact of mapping on Native American people and their impact on cartography. The curriculum's audience is high school students, but gives a wonderful overview for all.
Worksheets:
Native American Influence - "Native Americans played a critical role in European mapmaking. Earlyexplorers based many of their projections on existing Native Americanmaps. Examine the map and passage below to learn other ways that NativeAmericans participated in European cartography."
Haskell U. GIS Curriculum
Written by Rosemarie McKeon Thursday, 24 July 2008 00:00
The successes of Haskell Indian Nations University's GIS curriculum was recently published in the ESRI GIS Educator Summer 2008 [pdf] on page 3. The article Project Management: University adds an important element to GIS curriculum reveals how advanced GIS students from the Lawrence, Kansas campus, reveals their application of their learning experience of several project management training modules. Their efforts included creating a list of proposals which was followed by a feasibilty study to determine the most successful project. The winning project examined ...
