Abstract
GIS as a Web 2.0 Education Tool
Track: Community Projects and Partnerships
Author(s): Jeremy Donald, Timothy Tierney
This talk will present the results of a partnership between university and middle school students who will learn basic techniques for representing demographic and political boundary data with GIS software, and then create one or more projects focused on encouraging and facilitating the use of public information by the local community. GIS, in combination with Web 2.0 tools, will be used as a medium for communicating the data that serves as the basis for political representation and policy decisions.
Goals and objectives will be to increase political awareness, dialogue, and participation among the community and provide opportunities for civic engagement and awareness among both (university & middle school) groups of students. Emphasis will be on promoting political dialogue informed with public data wherever possible, such that constituents are not only an audience to communication media, but producers of media content as well (as in Web 2.0 supported maps and commentary).
Jeremy Donald
Trinity University
Coates Library
One Trinity Place
San Antonio , TX 78212
US
Phone: (210) 999 8176
E-mail: jdonald@trinity.edu
Timothy Tierney
CartoGraph
1129 San Pascual St.
Santa Barbara , CA 93101
US
Phone: 805-705-0534
E-mail: tierney@cartograph.com