Welcome to the conference website for GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum! GIS holds enormous potential for undergraduate education across the curriculum, but harnessing that potential is challenging. This conference will provide an opportunity to share ideas, and explore challenges and emerging opportunities. We expect the conference to be a problem-solving workshop allowing faculty from various disciplines to share tools, methods and resources for integrating GIS and spatial analysis into their work and GIS/IT staff to learn about the discipline-specific spatial needs and goals of faculty.
About the Conference:
- When: November 16-18, 2012
- Where: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Click here for a map.
- Details: Click on the pages shown on the menu above to access information on registration, lodging, conference schedule, and submitting presentations and maps.
- Deadlines: Deadline for early bird registration is September 15, 2012. Deadline for submitting presentations and maps is September 21, 2012.
- Format: We have chosen a work-group format for the conference in order to maximize opportunities for discussion and brain-storming amongst participants. The main day of the conference will feature five work-group sessions. Each session will consist of 45 minutes of presentations and 45 minutes of open discussion organized around a theme. We are seeking 3 presenters and 1 chairperson for each of the 5 sessions. See the submissions page for a detailed description of each of the session topics:
- 1a (Concurrent with 1b) – Mapping Human Activity – Qualitative Analysis GIS
- 1b (Concurrent with 1a) – Quantitative Analysis & Technical Applications of GIS
- 2 (Single group) – GIS in Pedagogy
- 3a (Concurrent with 3b) – GIS in Community Outreach & Service Learning
- 3b (Concurrent with 3a) – Software & Data Issues in GIS Instruction
- Goals: Desired outcomes include: (1) providing mutual support for imaginative and challenging applications of spatial technology in undergraduate education; (2) fostering potential collaborative efforts between and within participant schools, such as joint research initiatives and/or shared resources for data, web maps and teaching materials, and; (3) creating a regional community of faculty and GIS/IT staff to interact on a regular basis, share information, and exchange ideas about the priorities identified during the conference.
This event is sponsored by Library & Information Technology at Bucknell University. Should you have any questions, please contact Janine Glathar at jlg046@bucknell.edu or (570) 577-1990.