Backstory Over the last year, the Iowa State University GIS Facility has hosted several mapping events to teach groups about the opportunities in online mapping, such as the volunteer efforts of the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT). In July of 2015, a 4-H seminar was hosted on our campus with the theme Dare to
This year Earth Observation Day fell on the Wednesday of our biennial Iowa Geographic Information Council Conference. We held a mapping party and worked on mapping Leon, Iowa and then participated in various projects through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap task manager.
Over 40 people volunteered on January 19, 2015 at the Iowa State University GIS Facility for ISU’s part in the worldwide volunteer effort called Open Street Map that is creating a crowd-sourced map of the world that is open source, free and available for any use. The event was held in conjunction with Martin Luther
Title: Teachers, start your mapping! Free online GIS in the classroom from Esri and ConnectEd Date: August 19th, 2014 Time: 10am to 11am Description: Online GIS is a powerful, relatively easy way to get kids thinking spatially and involved in applied, inquiry-based projects. Come to learn more about this wonderful opportunity and bring your ideas
The UNI Geography program has a teacher training workshop in Oskaloosa July 21-22, 2014. The training uses ArcGIS Online and is aimed at social studies and STEM teachers teaching grades 6-12. The 2-day workshop is free, sponsored by National Geographic, and the graduate credit hour cost is greatly reduced. They have three excellent teachers lined up