Fwd: [GRASS-user] Basic GIS course ideas

[Tyler Mitchell]

FYI...

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> From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> Date: October 5, 2006 11:06:19 PM PDT (CA)
> To: grassuser at grass.itc.it, qgis-user at lists.qgis.org, qgis- 
> user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [GRASS-user] Basic GIS course ideas
>
> Hi FOSS GIS users,
>
> I am a part-time instructor in a college teaching introductory gis
> course.  I have been advocating for the use FOSS GIS (particularly
> GRASS and QGIS ) in our schools for the lab sessions.
> This is the second term I am doing this and have been reflecting on
> how did it go the first time.
>
> The objective of the course is for students to understand basic gis
> principles as well as practical applications in site planning, land
> use, ecology and business.
>
> Judging by the previous experience, it is a little bit difficult
> introducing the student FOSS GIS especially the linux way of doing
> things (CLI).  We are using XP machines and most students probably
> know computers as MS windows only.
>
> Some are more interested in creating cool maps and not on the
> underlying spatial analysis techniques (i.e. r.mapcalc) that were
> used.
>
> I wrote the list to ask GRASS instructors on any ideas in making the
> course better.  If you have any approaches/techniques/exercises you
> might want to share please do.  I firmly believe using FOSS GIS
> especially in our country is very important.  As a compromise though,
> a suggestion from this list was to also introduce them to propriety
> GIS package.  We have a few arcview 3.2 in the lab so I might give a 1
> or 2 sessions about it.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Maning
>
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