Abstract
Monitoring Practices in Environmental Studies with Geospatial Assessment Tools
Track: Teaching with GIS in Higher Education
Author
Learners in our Honors Program are invited to take gps units and digital cameras into the local watershed in order to recreate, to make field observations, and to collect bench-scientific data. Once the experiential component is complete, learners return and enter gps data and digital imagery into 'Geophoto' (developed by Geospatial Services), which marries the data sets together and produces a map which displays both the track of their adventure along with hot-points appearing exactly where any photo was taken along that track. When they click on the hot-point, the image appears in a pop-up with a blog-type mechanism embedded in it. This blog becomes a platform for learners to develop critically-reflective, geo-spatially sensitive interpretations of the local watershed. This unique assessment tool, the process by which we developed it, and the results our students have had using it will be the main focus of my presentation. Thank you.
Joseph Tadie
Geospatial Services (Dept. Phil)
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
700 Terrace Heights ##1504
Winona, Minnesota 55987
United States
Phone: 507.450.7092
E-mail: jtadie@smumn.edu