Learning about ArcGIS School Wide Focus? 2019
This is an old one. Better to post than never.
I completed a 2-day workshop in Auckland early 1st and 2nd of March. The first stage of the course was discussion about GIS Champion and how to set up ArcGIS account which was a mixture of pedagogy, and transmission teaching. This was important to give us students grounding and purpose as to what we are so passionate about and how we can implement ArcGIS in our own kura. I had visions of using this technology as a school-wide project, migrating away from the paper Korowai and powerpoint, to a visual, collect the data yourself (field trip to your marae), virtual tour Poepeha. Connecting your whakapapa. It would be fantastic if my taiohi (students) were able to learn the skills of using GIS to benefit their iwi- through mapping land boundaries and other natural, cultural and historic resources. Benefits in
The second session we went through co-constructing a survey and using Survey123, investigating a real-world problem. Looking at the number of picnic tables, location, and quality. Trying to decide whether the picnic tables were, in fact, serving their purpose or not? We collected the number of picnic tables, including things like a number of seats per table and the condition of the table. We walked the Mt Albert Unitec campus and completed our survey via phones. We then came back to class to and our tutor showed us the collection points and information in the ArcGIS online mapping tool. It was truly rewarding.
The second day was about braining storm how we would establish networks in our regions, followed by learning how to create a story map which was another application within the ArcGIS products, I found this to be very similar to Microsoft sway in its presentation features, however, it has the capability to be more enriching, through collaboration, but making real-world queries connected to the location. Followed by more practical hands-on learning such as how to set up school user accounts as administrators, and discussion around existing NCEA levels 1, 2 and 3 resources.
This was very interesting I had observed 20 teachers present at the workshop and about 25% had completed NCEA levels 2 and 3 in GIS, the 75% remaining, said things like accessibility to resources, internet speed and laptops with the mouse were the biggest challenges.
I completed a 2-day workshop in Auckland early 1st and 2nd of March. The first stage of the course was discussion about GIS Champion and how to set up ArcGIS account which was a mixture of pedagogy, and transmission teaching. This was important to give us students grounding and purpose as to what we are so passionate about and how we can implement ArcGIS in our own kura. I had visions of using this technology as a school-wide project, migrating away from the paper Korowai and powerpoint, to a visual, collect the data yourself (field trip to your marae), virtual tour Poepeha. Connecting your whakapapa. It would be fantastic if my taiohi (students) were able to learn the skills of using GIS to benefit their iwi- through mapping land boundaries and other natural, cultural and historic resources. Benefits in
The second session we went through co-constructing a survey and using Survey123, investigating a real-world problem. Looking at the number of picnic tables, location, and quality. Trying to decide whether the picnic tables were, in fact, serving their purpose or not? We collected the number of picnic tables, including things like a number of seats per table and the condition of the table. We walked the Mt Albert Unitec campus and completed our survey via phones. We then came back to class to and our tutor showed us the collection points and information in the ArcGIS online mapping tool. It was truly rewarding.
The second day was about braining storm how we would establish networks in our regions, followed by learning how to create a story map which was another application within the ArcGIS products, I found this to be very similar to Microsoft sway in its presentation features, however, it has the capability to be more enriching, through collaboration, but making real-world queries connected to the location. Followed by more practical hands-on learning such as how to set up school user accounts as administrators, and discussion around existing NCEA levels 1, 2 and 3 resources.
This was very interesting I had observed 20 teachers present at the workshop and about 25% had completed NCEA levels 2 and 3 in GIS, the 75% remaining, said things like accessibility to resources, internet speed and laptops with the mouse were the biggest challenges.
Since my return, I have decided this is a wonderful learning tool, with mini goals, pepeha staff, students in story maps application.
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