Bucknell Digital Commons

Continental breakfast available in lounge

Welcome/Presentation of Conference Format & Goals

Session 1 (concurrent): Quantitative Analysis & Technical Applications of GIS

Morning break (refreshments served in Terrace Room)

Session 3 (group): GIS in Pedagogy

incl. why: spatial thinking, quanitative/qualitative reasoning, ??; what:; when: early vs. when they’re already out the door, students who should be doing GIS but don’t realize it, as part of major requirement (e.g. methods classes?); how: desktop (ArcGIS, Google Earth), web-based tools (custom apps, Gapminder, StatPlanet, etc.), GIS courses vs. ‘a little bit’ of GIS in courses, methods courses, freshmen seminars, half credit short course (VC?)

Bios for keynote speakers:

Anne Kelly Knowles is Associate Professor of Geography at Middlebury College. For more than fifteen years, she has been a pioneer in historical GIS. Her two edited books, Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (ESRI Press 2002) and Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (ESRI Press 2008), along with special issues of the journals Social Science History and Historical Geography, have become benchmarks in this interdisciplinary field. As an historical geographer, Knowles has specialized in American immigration and industrialization, the subjects of Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier (University of Chicago Press 1997) and Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868 (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2012). Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Anne is currently Principal Investigator with Alberto Giordano (Texas State at San Marcos) on the Holocaust Historical GIS project, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Afternoon Break

Session 4 (concurrent): GIS in Higher Ed Community Outreach/Service Learning

service learning

Closing reception and opportunity for one-on-one consultations with Anne Knowles, Diana Sinton and Jeremy Crampton.