GIS/GPS Workplace Exercises on the World Wide Web

Author: Dean E Ayres
Organization: Houston Community College

10141 Cash Road
Stafford, TX 77477
USA

Phone: 713-718-7763
Fax: 713-718-7779
ayres_d@hccs.cc.tx.us

This project supported by the NSF (DUE 9850344) has produced 35 laboratory exercises for two semesters of introductory college-level GIS courses. The authors received advice and data from the HCCS-GIS Advisory Board consisting of 21 representatives from the private and public sectors of the workplace. The exercises are also related to sections of the NCGIA-GIS curriculum projects. GIS instructors from 12 partner colleges reviewed the exercises in a workshop last August. Based on their suggestions the exercises have been edited, expanded, and grouped into several application areas including environment, community development, marketing, and utilities.

We will illustrate a Web site describing the project (http://swc2.hccs.cc.tx.us/gis/index.html) including links to the exercises and data sets. We will publish the materials on the Internet and CD-ROM.