Abstract

The Eagle Vision Project: Training Secondary Teachers to Incorporate GIT
Track: Educational Research and Teacher Education
Author(s): Philip Sittnick, Cody Wiley, Olen Matthews

The Eagle Vision project was a three-year, National Science Foundation-funded effort to train high school teachers in the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) school system to incorporate geographic information technologies, and specifically, ArcView software, into their curriculum. The project worked with the same group of 18 teachers from 9 different BIE schools representing a geographically diverse region. The project was coordinated by the Center for Educational Technology in Indian America, a non-profit professional development center focused on educators of American Indian K-12 students. The Geography Department at the University of New Mexico was the major partner. Teachers from various content areas were given training in 2-week summer institutes that focused on learning GIT, as well as associated educational pedagogy. Some training was also delivered online. The presentation will share results from the project, with examples of successful secondary curricular applications of ArcView and other GIT.

Philip Sittnick
Center for Educational Technology in Indian America
P.O. Box 1041
Grants , New Mexico 87020
United States
Phone: 5052855366
E-mail: phil_sittnick@breadnet.middlebury.edu

Cody Wiley
UNM Geography Dept.
Dept. of Geography, Bandelier West Rm. 111
MSC01 1110, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131
United States
Phone: 5052775041
E-mail: horde.of.one@gmail.com

Olen Matthews
UNM Geography Dept.
c/o Dept. of Geography, Bandelier West Rm. 111
MSC01 1110, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131
United States
Phone: 5052775041
E-mail: opmatt@unm.edu