Abstract
Bring the EdUC to Your Own Backyard
Track: Educational Research and Teacher Education
Author(s): Lyn Malone, Alexander Chaucer
Replicate the EdUC experience by designing an education “preconference” at your own regional users’ group conference. “Piggy-backing” an education event onto an established user group conference provides benefits for both educators and professional GIS users. This presentation will provide an overview of GIS Educators Day, a one day EdUC which was a preconference to the 2008 annual NEARC (Northeast ArcUser Group) conference in September 2008. GIS Educators Day drew over 60 educators from both the K12 and higher ed environments. The designers of that successful event will provide an outline of their planning process, describe their partnership with the region’s Geography Education Alliances, share lessons learned from their experience, and provide suggestions based on feedback from conference attendees. Their planning guidelines will cover such topics as determining appropriate presentation topics and presenters, working with planners of the main user conference, and balancing the interests of K12 and higher ed participants.
Lyn Malone
WORLD VIEWS Spatial Technologies for Education
53 Riverside Dr
Barrington , Rhode Island 02806
United States
Phone: 401-245-4395
E-mail: lmalone@worldviewsgis.com
Alexander Chaucer
GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research - Skidmore College
815 N. Broadway
Saratoga Springs , New York 12866
United States
Phone: 518-580-5918
E-mail: achaucer@skidmore.edu