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Summary

During my years at the Université de Montréal, I was committed to enlarging the French-speaking community's access to the rapidly evolving world of GIS and spatial analysis. By guiding student participation in a sustained effort spanning multiple years and all four of my courses, I developed a very wide range of online educational materials for use by everyone. In each course, I devised strategies for the students to both learn from and contribute to the world outside the university's walls. Here are some links to the various projects of the students of those courses.

Wikipedia

Applications de SIG
Students developed an entirely new Wikipedia page highlighting more than 50 highly varied applications of GIS. These included applications of GIS in natural resource management, human health, among many others. Since its creation, this page has been modified and improved considerably by the wikipedia community, and was viewed more than 15,000 times in its first 3 years.

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 2512, Automne 2008)

Annotated Books

  • Annotated Summary of Heywood, Intro to GIS, 3e edition
  • Annotated Summary of Gorr-Kurland Livre des TPs, 3e edition
Students annotated an English-language GIS course book in French, for their own use and for the use of others. The book is Introduction to Geographical Information Systems, third edition, by Heywood et al.

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 2512, Automne 2009)


Students annotated an English-language GIS Laboratory Exercise Manual in French, for their own use and for the use of others. The book is GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9, by Wilpen L Gorr, Kristen S Kurland, third edition.

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 2512, Automne 2009)


Laboratory Exercises Written by Students

Lab Exercises in GIS written by Students
Students have written GIS-oriented lab exercises designed to introduce others to a set of concepts and/or skills in GIS. Each laboratory exercise is tested and improved by other students, annotated by the author and by other students, and uses publicly stored and available data so that others can do the exercises as written.

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 6342, All Semesters)

Where and how is GIS used?

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Click to see a Google Map of locations of some of the presentations...

By year:60 Short Presentations about GIS


150 Older Summaries of Presentations about GIS
Students have developed short presentations highlighting applications of GIS in a multitude of settings. These pages describe those presentations, present links to sources of information and data, and give a question and answer that encapsulates the presentation.


Pages in 2010 and beyond include links to the presentations themselves, stored permanently as Google Presentations.

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 2512, Automne 2010, Automne 2009, Automne 2008, Hiver 2008)

Annotated links to other GIS resources

Links to GIS resources
Students create and maintain a list of links to information about GIS outside our courses. Sections include Portals and Forums, Glossaries and Dictionaries, GIS Terminology, On-line tools, Open-source GIS, Data Sources, and others...

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 2512, All Semesters)

Annotated Links to On-line laboratory exercises in GIS

Annotated Links to Other On-line GIS Lab Exercises
Students located and annotated in detail more than 100 laboratory exercises from the world of GIS. Often developed at other universities or organizations, these exercises are often useful to provide practical experience in a GIS or spatial analysis skill. Students annotated each exercise to identify the stated goal, the programs used, the availability of the data, and the provenance of the lab exercise itself. Because many of the lab exercises available on the internet are written in English, this annotation can save hours of effort and searching.

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 6342, All Semesters)

Exploring the World of Google Maps

  • Google Maps 2010: Tools, Mapplets, Mashups
  • Google Maps 2009: Mashups, Basic Functions, and Tools
  • Google Maps 2008: Mapplets, Photos, etc.

Students have located and annotated in detail hundreds of web sites, blog postings, and applications of the latest developments of Google Maps. This revolutionary technology has changed the way that millions of lay people and professionals interact with the world of maps. The pace of change is so great that lab exercises in the courses were often entirely outdated between semesters. Students searched for, annotate, and present these links to keep pace with this rapidly changing field.

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 6352, All Semesters)

Exploring the World of Google Earth and NASA WorldWind

  • Google Maps 2010:  News Blogs, KMLs, Georeferencing
  • Google Earth 2009: Tutorials for Advanced Use, Network Links, Geotagging, and KML
  • Google Earth 2008: Georeferencing Tools, KML, Conversion Tools, Google Earth Community
  • NASA WorldWind 2009: Basic Functionality, Plug-Ins, Add-Ons
  • NASA WorldWind 2008

Students located and annotated in detail hundreds of web sites, blog postings, and applications of the latest developments of Google Earth and NASA WorldWind. These "virtual globes" have become a standard way of viewing the earth for millions of lay people and scientists alike. Students searcheded for, annotate, and presented these links to keep pace with this rapidly changing field.

(En français, en-ligne). (Cours Géo 6352, All Semesters)

Online Coursework and Course Plans

Nearly all of the material I developed for my courses is posted online. This includes all Plans de Cours and most presentations. Where applicable, the presentations and group projects of students are also hosted online for public use. (En français, en-ligne). (All Courses, All Semesters)

Geo 2512: Introduction to GIS
  • Intro SIG Automne 2011
  • Intro SIG Automne 2010
  • Intro SIG Automne 2009
  • Intro SIG Automne 2008
  • Intro SIG Hiver 2008 

Geo 3030: Advanced GIS
  • Projets des Étudiants
  • Short Student-written guides to specific parts of ArcGIS
  • Each Year of the Course

Geo 6352: Internet-guided advances in spatial analysis
  • Google Maps, Google Earth, and Fusion Tables: Hiver 2011
  • Google Maps & Google Earth: Hiver 2010
  • Internet Advances in GIS: Hiver 2009
  • Internet Advances in GIS: Hiver 2008
  • Internet and GIS (course prototype): Hiver 2007




Geo 6342: GIS as a tool for research
  • Automne 2010
  • Automne 2008

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