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Introduction
What's New?
Presentations and Publications
Use Cases
Hardware
Software
Data
FAQ
Participants
Contacts
Acknowledgements
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What's New?
[18-May-2007]
Teaching with GeoPads website goes live. This website is
the primary product of the "Teaching with GeoPads Worskhop" held in
mid-February at Montana State University
[16-Feb-2007]
Workshop on Teaching with GeoPads convened by David Mogk and
Peter Knoop at Montana State University. The goal of the
workshop is to gather folks with experience using GeoPads, identify
and discuss best-practices for teaching with GeoPads for a wide
variety of courses, and to produce and maintain a website dedicated
to "Teaching with GeoPads".
[25-Apr-2006]
Join the email-list-serve: geopadlist@umich.edu
A place to ask questions about and share your own experiences with IT
in-the-field.
To subscribe, please send a message to
geopadlist-request@umich.edu with the word SUBSCRIBE as the subject
of the message. To reverse the process, that is, to get off the list,
use the same format but put the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject field.
The body of the message can and should be blank.
[20-Apr-2006]
We're getting ready to test out a lot of new equipment and ideas on
our annual two-week sedimentary Geology field trip. This year will
be visiting a variety of localities between Ann Arbor, MI and West
Texas/New Mexico. Some of the things we've decided to try out on this
trip so far include:
- Higher-power WiFi networking equipment with external, high-gain
antennas
- Classroom interaction software for our mobile, inter-vehicle
discussions between stops (e.g., Classroom Presenter, Ubiquitous
Presenter, NetSupport School, DyKnow)
- Virtual Serial Port utilities (e.g., ) to allow the GPS data
feed to be accessed simultaneously by more than one application
(i.e., have the GPS on in ArcMap and DeLorme StreetAtlas at the same
time)
- Google Earth for guided exploration exercises; in areas where
Verizon EVDO or T-Mobile GPRS cellular data service is available.
- Student Blogs to help encourage them to keep a journal of the
trip and to let their friends and parents know how much fun geology
is!
For the field courses at Camp Davis this summer are plans
currently include:
- expanded GeoPad usage in our senior-level, field geology
course (GS-440) to cover the whole semester
- expanded GeoPad usage in our environmental sciences course
(GS-341) to include real-time, in-the-field data access from
Internet-based instruments (e.g., USGS stream gauges) and data
repositories.
- A "mobile classroom" approach to our Atlantic City project,
if long-range, WiFi networking proves feasible in the mapping
area. This includes being able to remotely interact with
students and their GeoPads and being able to determine where
students are in the field area. The mapping area is
relative flat and has a few high points from which nearly the
whole mapping area is visible by line-of-sight where WiFi base
stations can be deployed; vegetation is also limited compared to
other areas where it is problematic to WiFi networking.
(Mark Manone reports great success with this approach at Lee's
Ferry in a NAU geology course.)
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