1. Center for Educational Technologies® (CET)
To enhance lifelong learning and teaching through the effective use of technology.

2. CET’s GIS Mission Statement:
To increase opportunities for students and teachers to learn about and use geospatial technologies within the context of existing K-12 goals and standards.

3. Top 3 geospatial accomplishments this past year:
CET strengthened it’s GIS presence to meet the demands of Mine Impoundment Location and Warning System project.
Satisfied most of the requirements of the project including geospatial database, prototype module for the centers Exploring the Environment® online learning program, and prototype ArcIMS® interactive mapping website.
Provided GIS/remote sensing support to Wheeling Jesuit University’s Biology Department for impoundment site visits and also created an ArcIMS application to help the department locate inactive and/or unregulated coal impoundments.

4. Top 3 geospatial goals for the coming year:
Complete remaining requirements of the Mine Location and Warning System project.
Incorporate ArcIMS applications to supplement existing Exploring the Environment products.
Develop and implement a plan to create a center for geospatial studies at the CET. Rather than teaching GIS, the center’s focus will be to teach with GIS, using a problem-based learning strategy.

5. Geospatial data:
Evacuation/Inundation areas and points (roadblocks, evacuation centers, etc.) in the form of ArcGIS shapefiles digitized from emergency action plans submitted by coal companies to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.

7. How can you benefit from the CET?
Once completed, coal impoundment GIS data will be available to interested agencies.
Currently, educators can access our Exploring the Environment modules, most of which, incorporate remote sensing and Earth system science education.

9. Links and contact information:
Jodie Hoover