I am teaching several upcoming short courses with community and environmental themes, using GIS as our data collection, mapping, analysis, and communication platform. For the […]
Fieldwork
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Planting the Seeds: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/briefings/5fb8020d636a42c6aad040e5b9367234 Collecting-mapping-analyzing communicating fieldwork workshop: https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/new-workshop-and-lesson-on-connecting-surveys-maps/ba-p/1419582
Connecting Field Surveys, Maps, Dashboards, and Story Maps: A Workshop. Here is the final result: https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/how-walkable-is-your-community/ba-p/883382 Here are my slides: field_data_collecting_mapping_analyzing_communicating_jjk
Why is outdoor education so neglected and yet so important in 21st Century teaching and learning? Outdoor education fosters community connection, teamwork, environmental sensitivity, sense […]
Feel free to explore the hands-on activities, maps, apps, and resources I have created, here: univ_of_colorado_enviro_workshop_f19 –Joseph Kerski
Here is a Syllabus for 2 hour GIS Hands-on Workshop that I conducted for educators in social studies, STEM, and other fields. Feel free to use or […]
I wrote an article for Earthzine that describes an unusual type of exploring the Earth. https://earthzine.org/2009/12/08/to-the-nth-degreeand-minute-and-second-confluence-hunting-on-planet-earth/
Add your view to this crowdsource story map. This was created with the story map tools. Story maps are web mapping applications based on ArcGIS […]
Here is the syllabus for the university GIS investigation and spatial thinking workshop: University GIS Investigation Workshop. Try some of these links and tools yourself!
I conducted a 2 day workshop on GIS, spatial thinking, and geotechnologies for the Cherry Creek School District. The syllabus is here: Cherry Creek Schools GIS […]
I gave a presentation and workshop for the North American Association for Environmental Education (www.naaee.org) entitled “Isn’t That Spatial? Teaching about the Environment, Examining Field Data, […]
An EarthCache is a type of geocache that is a special geological location people can visit to learn about a unique feature of the Earth. EarthCache pages […]
I am rather passionate (some might say “obsessed”) about visiting latitude-longitude line intersections, named “Confluence Points.” In fact, I have visited nearly 400 of them […]
Syllabus: BioBlitz Workshop: Colorado State University Author: Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D., GISP Goals: Through this workshop, you will: (1) Learn what GIS and spatial analysis […]
Spatial Thinking and Geotechnologies Workshop: St Vrain Valley School District One-day workshop led by an Esri education manager and geographer on integrating spatial thinking and […]
Community mapping is a part of crowdsourcing and citizen science, one of what I consider to be 5 trends that are having a great impact […]
Now that it is easy to gather tracks and waypoints on a smartphone and map them in a GIS, it provides a good opportunity to […]