Monday, July 24, 2023

GI Pedagogy

I previously posted about my regret at the ending of the UK's involvement with the ERASMUS+ programme following our withdrawal from the EU. Whenever I've met and worked with European friends and colleagues since then, they have expressed their sadness and bafflement at that decision. We can only hope that it might be reversed at some point.



The GI Pedagogy project was my 'final' involvement and last week we got the final assessment back from the British Council with a VERY GOOD assessment, which had improved on the original project bid - which is always good to see, and which commented on the quality of the outputs and support for teachers.

If you are thinking of increasing your use of GIS in the classroom please check out our website for the resources that we created as part of the project. The innovative aspect of our work is the use of Rosenshine's Principles to help inform the teaching with GIS.

These include:

- Our lesson template.

- Research reports on best practice when teaching with GIS. I contributed to all of these, but was particularly involved in the creation of the TOOLKIT. I'm very pleased with how that turned out.

- Check out our MOOC - free access, and full of useful videos and other resources

- A StoryMap of outcomes from people who have used our model.


Saturday, July 22, 2023

Hoodmaps.com

 

A cross posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. Check out the almost 500 posts on Iceland here...

This map site provides visual summaries of the neighbourhood demographics of a number of cities around the world. It's not meant to be entirely serious, but is worth taking a look at.

Here's the result for Sheffield.

Friday, July 14, 2023

Mapmaker - launched in Beta

 MapMaker was launched at the ESRI User Conference earlier in the week.

Back in 2010-12 I travelled the country leading GIS sessions with Jason Sawle, using an ESRI product called Digital Worlds.  We visited cities up and down the country at the time. Jason is now Global Schools Manager at ESRI, and was involved in the launch of MapMaker.

Try the tool here:

This might be the tool that you find the most useful from the various ESRI options.