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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...