1. Designing GIS & Remote Sensing Courses, Modules, & Activities for Teaching Geoscience Students Audio access: Call in 1-800-766-1337 Access code: 94465872 Please mute your phone by pressing *6 Alternate number: 1-404-920-6604 (not toll-free) Technical problems? Contact John at jmcdaris@carleton.edu Program begins at 2 pm EDT, Sat. May 7 Please bookmark the workshop program at http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/coursedesign2 011/program.html

2. Welcome to session 3!  1 st session in March - goals  2 nd session in April - assignments  40 participants  Three roughly equal groups  Group 1: GIS or RS course  Group 2: geo-themed activity(ies) for GIS or RS course  Group 3: GIS or RS module for a geo course

3. Workshop leaders  Adf David McConnell John McDaris Brian Hynek Barb Tewksbury

4. Elluminate nuts and bolts  Muting your phone – press *6  Raise your hand if you have a question; we will ask you to unmute.  Problems? Please do not use the chat function to report problems. Send email to  John at jmcdaris@carleton.edu jmcdaris@carleton.edu  All important links and instructions are on the workshop Program page!

5. Plan for today  Focus on preparing people for summer work  Briefly highlight assignment/activity ideas  Presentation: Effective assessment in GIS and RS courses  Small group discussion – variety of topics  Optional presentation: Cool and Simple: Working with LiDAR Point Cloud Data in ArcGIS

6. Possible discussion topics  Structuring and assessing GIS projects including final projects and term projects  The pros and cons of working with open source software  Strategies for preparing students to handle changes in the future  What is the best preparation for students who want to become GIS professionals?  Strategies for effectively integrating GPS and GIS through field activities

7. Designing projects Open source software Prepping students for future changes GIS professional prep GPS and GIS

8. Summer work  Own work on course, assignments, activities, and assessment  Prep for online poster session on Saturday, August 27  Review of activities currently in Cutting Edge collection  Submit to GSA topical session T170 on teaching GIS and RS!!!

9. Highlights from HW#2  Boger: critical analysis of maps by using them as basis for debate  Robinson: step-by-step for part I; students figure it out in part II.  A. Schmidt: students read a paper, do workflow, replicate analyses, compare results  Dodge: journaling about landform change

10. Highlights from HW #2  Montgomery: simple to complex analyses using one local problem  Lowery: assess learning by having students reflect on work in short write-up and/or concept sketch  Miller: present another student’s project based solely on the map  Goeke: use ArcMap as a time- saving tool in other analyses (e.g., topo profiles – also in Google E)