St. Olaf College | CILA | Faculty Conversations | 02-03 | Spring | ELECTRONIC MAPS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

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ELECTRONIC MAPS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

CILA Faculty Lunch Conversation
Wednesday, April 9
11:45-1:15, Buntrock 142

Charles Umbanhowar jr, Biology and Environmental Studies

co-sponsored by IIT

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide the electronic means to create and query spatial data. Their uses may vary from the production of publication quality maps of a range of data (demographic, economic, ecological...) to more formal analyses and modeling of correlation and cause and effect. In this CILA session, Charles Umbanhowar will introduce faculty to different ways in which GIS can be integrated into the classroom and into research, drawing on examples from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. He will demonstrate some of the basic options available to faculty and, based on interest expressed during this session, will offer a 1-2 day training session this summer in the use of Arcview, the primary GIS software available in the market.