Abstract
 Mapping a Sense of Place in the Classroom Track: Teaching with GIS Author(s): Brian Lee GIS technology is not widely used to map the sense of place. This classroom activity helps students learn how to map a sense of place through GIS for a group of people. This learning activity is used to transition from lecture to laboratory settings in a semester long introductory landscape analysis class. Undergraduate students are asked to rate whether or not they "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" on a 5 point Likert scale with identifying a city as part of a particular region. Using city locations and ratings by the students, an inverse distance weighting procedure generates contours of "The Sense of Place." Through this activity students become more active learners rather than passive listeners. Informal qualitative and quantitative analyses indicate that students better understand the process of data collection, encoding, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial data because of this active learning project. Brian Lee University of Kentucky Landscape Architecture S305 Agricultural Science North Lexington , KY 40546-0091 US Phone: 859 257-7205 E-mail: blee@uky.edu |
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