1. Designing GIS & Remote Sensing Courses, Modules, & Activities for Teaching Geoscience Students
Audio access: Call in Access code: Please mute your phone by pressing *6 Alternate number: (not toll-free) Technical problems? Contact John at
Program begins at 2 pm EDT, Sun. Mar. 13
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2. Introduction On the Cutting Edge, funded by NSF and supported by NAGT.
Workshop is follow-on to summer 2010 workshop on Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Teach Geoscience in the 21st Century
First time Cutting Edge has offered a topic-specific course development workshop

3. Introduction Focus is on GIS/RS and geosciences.
Many geology departments do not teach GIS or RS, and students take courses in other departments.
Workshop has two aims:
to help faculty add GIS and RS to geology curricula
to help faculty add geo examples to general GIS and RS courses.

4. Introduction Builds on 16 years of course design workshops
Emphasis on workshop
Will leave you well on your way to following through
Benefit from everyone’s expertise, develop a network
Add to the Cutting Edge collections of resources for teaching with GIS and RS for the benefit of the community

5. Workshop leaders Adf Barb Tewksbury David McConnell John McDaris
History of course design at CE, this being very different
Brian Hynek
John McDaris
Adf

6. Elluminate nuts and bolts
Muting your phone – press *6
Optimizing windows
Using the chat function
Raising your hand; other tips
Problems? Please do not use the chat function to report problems. Send to
John at
or post a question on the tech thread of the discussion board.
All important links and instructions are on the workshop Program page!