GIS (Geographic Information Services) is empowering new ways faculty can teach in their classrooms and the way students interact and learn. Nowhere is that more evident than in the Department of Geography. Jeremy Crampton and his class surveyed part of UK’s campus with a camera, 2-liter soda bottle, a balloon, rubber bands and string. Find out more about how a do-it-yourself project like this makes it easy to be an active participant in data collection.
Matt Wilson’s students are also putting GIS to use by working with community members and organizations. Ranging from health and cultural advocacy, food systems, open data, environmental issues, historical preservation – the students collaborate with people and places in the community to provide a needs assessment that GIS technologies can offer, whether it is web-based mapping tools, information that can help with grants, or just general GIS analysis. Listen to this podcast to find out more.
To view full stories on these interesting topics, check out these helpful links:
On Saturday, February 11th, students from Jeff Rice's A&S 100 class joined me at the indoor winter Lexington Farmers Market. We set up two tables, two digital audio recorders, and one scanner.
I am taking a Digital Game-Based Learning course this semester, and so far it has been really interesting. We look at the ways that games can provide great learning opportunities. For a project, I had to create my own game. I had previously created a non-educational game in another class, so I built off of that one for my educational game. Play both games at the links below.
Non educational game, "When Hippos Fly" : http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/FuzzyTurtles/2094222'
Educational game, "Hippos in Outer Space: A Math Adventure" : http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/FuzzyTurtles/2311162
Looking for some extra credit hours this semester? Don’t forget to check out our mid-semester, 2 credit-hour courses. This spring A&S is offering Passport to China, which is part of the larger Year of China programming, Community 101, Composing with Visuals, and the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
These classes are a great way to explore new topics and gain extra credit hours – for more information, contact your advisor.
Sunday morning I awoke to the news that Whitney Houston had passed away.
(Photo credit: Size Doesn’t Matter Blog)
February 17, 2012
Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Professor of Media Studies, Ponoma College
Director of Scholarly Communication, MLA
Dr. Fitzpatrick will be available for two events on February 17.
A Discussion on Digital Publishing, Academic Publishing and Digital Scholarship
Friday, February 17 10:00 AM
POT 245
A chance to talk one on one about the current state of digital scholarship and its implications for the humanities.
Lecture:
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Friday, February 17 3:00 PM
211 Student Center Addition
A week ago I spent the morning meeting with an Israeli cultural anthropologist and education scholar well-known for his work on Peace education, Prof. Zvi Beckerman. As soon as I entered his office, I immediately felt at home, as the books from some of my favorite rhetoricians-- Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman, and others-- were sitting right there on his shelf, piled up and in plain view.
