{"id":3111,"date":"2016-01-22T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T23:40:59","slug":"curricular-guidance-from-social-media-gistribe-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/2016\/01\/curricular-guidance-from-social-media-gistribe-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Curricular guidance from social media: #gistribe in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years, I have presented a GIS\/mapping workshop as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/paideia\/\">Paideia<\/a> &#8212; in 60-ish minutes, aiming to give the Reed community an introduction into the concepts of spatial analysis, basic cartography and critical map reading, and how they might start approaching analytical and\/or spatial projects\u00a0of their own.<\/p>\n<p>This year I decided to split this into two sessions &#8212; one focused on GIS as a tool, another focused more on mapmaking and less on data and\/or analysis.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Problem: when you&#8217;re limited to one hour, and this might be your only chance to get your audience excited about GIS &#8212; what do you highlight? To the Twitter, Batman!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gistribe?src=hash\">#gistribe<\/a>: You have 60 minutes to teach college students whatever you want (incl hands-on things) about GIS. What makes that shortlist?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kristin Bott (@RhoBott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\/status\/689506994114269184\">January 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The full suite of replies is below, calling for a mix of specific procedural tips, tool recommendations, key pieces of theory and\/or details of working with data, as well as a nod to context, applications, and answers to &#8220;so what?&#8221; \/ &#8220;why does this matter?&#8221; questions.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all who responded, and thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wildlifegisgirl\">@wildlifegisgirl<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wildlifegisgirl\/status\/689526559275945984\">mention\/RT<\/a>.\u00a0To get some sense of what the workshop looked like, here&#8217;s materials from the GIS presentation (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/datablog\/2016\/01\/19\/gis-workshop-paideia\/\">session post <\/a>@\u00a0Reed&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/datablog\/\">datablog<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3MAbgkG0EnLeVAwdHd0OUhiOEU\/view?usp=sharing\">slides for presentation<\/a>); the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/datablog\/2016\/01\/20\/mapping-workshop-paideia-edition\/\">mapping workshop <\/a>was much less structured, mostly hands-on\/demo time using some available local data.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a><br \/>\n Do something GIS-like using a tool you wouldn&#8217;t think of as a GIS tool (ie Excel)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Bitner (@bitnerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bitnerd\/status\/689507688049344512\">January 19, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a> Using transformations in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QGIS?src=hash\">#QGIS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArcGIS?src=hash\">#ArcGIS<\/a> and then the importance of datum &amp; scale information on the map <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GISTribe?src=hash\">#GISTribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Duggan (@Dragons8mycat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dragons8mycat\/status\/689509644876812289\">January 19, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a> QGIS and maybe PostGIS depending on the tech knowledge of the students <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gistribe?src=hash\">#gistribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 H8-TR (@Spatial_Punk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spatial_Punk\/status\/689525830871953408\">January 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a> re: web GIS, geojson.io and dropchop.io<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 joe larson (@oeon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oeon\/status\/689526272154669057\">January 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a> also CartDB. Provides a breadth of exposure to spatial db, SQL, viz, JS, etc. All can be expanded on after a 60 minute flyby.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Martinelli (@nichom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nichom\/status\/689527837854818304\">January 19, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a> null island and other data problems; cartograms are terrible; spatial joins are the basis of gis<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Moehr (@mattmoehr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattmoehr\/status\/689536503463084032\">January 19, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a> One of my fav spatial exercises is directions. First ask, How would you give directions from x to y. Then, ask *why*.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kitty Hurley (@GeospatialEM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeospatialEM\/status\/689560170175684608\">January 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a> Areas where GIS has helped industry, individuals. Short examples so that at least the &#8220;Why&#8221; is covered <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gistribe?src=hash\">#gistribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Bancroft (@Brian_Bancroft) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brian_Bancroft\/status\/689572444353396736\">January 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhoBott\">@rhobott<\/a> probably adding a CSV with coordinates and create a map, then do some analysis with the data<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antonio Locandro (@antoniolocandro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antoniolocandro\/status\/689986450067161088\">January 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years, I have presented a GIS\/mapping workshop as part of Paideia &#8212; in 60-ish minutes, aiming to give the Reed community an introduction into the concepts of spatial analysis, basic cartography and critical map reading, and how they might start approaching analytical and\/or spatial projects\u00a0of their own. This year I decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/2016\/01\/curricular-guidance-from-social-media-gistribe-in-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curricular guidance from social media: #gistribe in action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[36,89,78,35,37,9,90],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping-geospatial","category-workshops","tag-arcgis","tag-gis","tag-mapping","tag-paideia","tag-qgis","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}