Symposium 2022 > Workshops

Our Symposium Workshops will be held on Monday, June 6th in-person on the campus of Syracuse University.  Workshops are FREE for individuals from UCGIS member departments or institutions. For all others, there is a $40 fee per workshop. Not sure if your department or university is a UCGIS member? Here's a current membership list.  
All workshops will be held in the Schine Student Center, in Goldstein Auditorium (not to be confused with the Goldstein Student Center on South Campus).  
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Please note: Workshop details are still being updated, and are subject to change.

Workshop 1: Teaching Core Content from the UCGIS GIS&T Body of Knowledge with Web GIS Tools and Data

  • Description:  Discover how selected content from the Body of Knowledge can be effectively and engagingly taught using today’s modern web GIS tools, maps and apps, and data.  This workshop’s aim is to provide students with thoughtful and useful activities to cement their readings of concepts from the UCGIS GIS&T Body of Knowledge, and to provide instructors with ways of teaching those concepts. This workshop focuses on 5 Body of Knowledge chapters: 1. Location Privacy. 2. GIS&T Education and Training. 3. Error-based Uncertainty. 4. Scale and Generalization. 5. Common Thematic Map Types. Three activities will be examined for each chapter as a proof of concept. More activities are possible given the ready availability of GIS tools and data sets. These activities can be used as is but can be modified to meet your course and program objectives.
  • Instructor: Joseph Kerski, Esri.
  • Time & Date: Monday, June 6, 2022, from 9:30 am - 11:30 pm EDT
  • Location: In-person - classroom TBD
  • Capacity: 25 people
  • Prerequisite Knowledge and Workshop Requirements: Participants should bring a laptop.
  • Fees: this workshop is free for anyone affiliated with a UCGIS member institution, or $40 to all others.

 

Workshop 2: Modern GIS: Shifting the Gravity of Instruction to the Web

  • Description:  A modern GIS is a web GIS that revolves around data services, cloud architectures, configurable applications, and automation. However, the curriculum and structure of GIS education has not kept pace with these changes. This session will review the changes in industry and computing driving the need for changes in GIS education. It will highlight institutions whose curricula incorporate modern GIS concepts and practices and discuss approaches to updating curricula and pedagogy. It also will explore ways in which the lessons learned by trailblazers could benefit institutions currently in the process of updating programs. In addition to a lively discussion, we’ll share resources, case studies, and lessons to assist educators and students in adopting modern GIS.
  • InstructorsAngela Lee, Geri Miller, Esri. 
  • Time & DateMonday, June 6, 2022, from 9:30 am - 11:30 pm EDT
  • Capacity: 25 people
  • LocationIn-person - classroom TBD
  • Prerequisite Knowledge and Workshop Requirements Participants should bring a laptop.
  • Fees: this workshop is free for anyone affiliated with a UCGIS member institution, or $40 otherwise.

 

Workshop 3:  Reading and Linking Place: Text on Historical Maps

  • Description:  This workshop will introduce and familiarize participants with the latest ready-to-use machine learning and web-based annotation tools for efficiently extracting textual information on historical maps, linking the texts to external knowledge bases, and exporting the linked information. These combined tools help historians, geographers, and librarians to quickly generate useful information from existing digital map collections (e.g., USGS historical topographic maps, the David Rumsey Historical Map collection, historical Ordnance Survey maps). In particular, we will use the web-based annotation platform, Recogito, integrated with our latest machine learning tool, mapKurator, developed within the Machines Reading Maps project.  We will provide a set of historical maps and tutorials for hands-on learning. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own maps.
  • Instructor:  Jina Kim, University of Minnesota.  
  • Time & Date: Monday, June 6, 2022, from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
  • Capacity25 people.
  • Location: In person.  Location TBD. 
  • Prerequisite Knowledge and Workshop Requirements: Participants should bring a laptop.
  • Fees: this workshop is free for anyone affiliated with a UCGIS member institution, or $40 to all others.

Workshop 4: Practicing and Teaching Reproducibility and Replicability in the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences

  • Description:  Reproductions and replications (R&R) are needed in the human-environment and geographical sciences (HEGS) to evaluate the validity of findings and generalizability of theories across geographic contexts.  We will integrate discussions about integrating R&R in HEGS research and teaching with introductory technical training in tools for reproducible research and teaching. Discussions and techniques will use the case of a reproduction of a geographic COVID-19 study that was collaboratively developed with students using a new GitHub template repository for reproducible HEGS research, Open Science Framework (OSF) registration, and open source R Markdown computational notebooks.  This workshop is based on an ongoing research project to advance the production of theory in the geographical sciences by (1) identifying barriers to R&R in HEGS, (2) assessing the credibility of recent impactful studies, and (3) establishing a project-based educational model for R&R in HEGS. To date, we have (1) developed a framework for reproducible research practices in HEGS, (2) trained undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in GIScience courses in reproducible research practices, and (3) reproduced or replicated seven published studies with teams of undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Instructor: Joseph Holler, Middlebury College; Peter Kedron, ASU
  • Time & DateMonday, June 6, 2022, from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT 
  • Capacity: 25 people
  • Location: In person.  Location TBD.
  • Prerequisite Knowledge and Workshop Requirements: Participants should bring a laptop.
  • Fees: this workshop is free for anyone affiliated with a UCGIS member institution, or $40 otherwise

 


 

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