Abstract

Missouri Uses Distance Learning to Implement a Community Mapping Program
Track: Community Projects and Partnerships
Author(s): Frank Wideman, Thomas Tate

The University of Missouri Extension team is using a dozen remote learning sites to organize and educate youth, their leaders and the GIS community on the opportunities through community mapping. Each site will work with local youth that will participate in educational events in the state-wide virtual 4-H club. These youth and their GIS community partners select the mapping need they will complete. This paper will be a report on these efforts.

The basic program includes classes on the following topics: Community Mapping Concepts and Process, Understanding Geographic Information Systems, Understanding and Using Global Positioning Systems, and Community Mapping Resources.

Participants learn how to implement these model projects - Disaster Preparedness, Water Quality (Stream Teams), Community Health and Wellness (Safe Walking and Wheeling Routes), Tourism (Argritourism) and apply those techniques to their project.

Frank Wideman
University of Missouri
321 N Main Street
Perryville , Missouri 63775
United States
Phone: 573-547-4504
E-mail: widemanf@missouri.edu

Thomas Tate
USDA - CSREES
4429 Waterfront Center
1400 Independence Avenue SW, Stop 2201
Washington , District of Columbia 20250-2201
United States
Phone: (202) 720-2727
E-mail: ttate@csrees.usda.gov