Itinerary

Ice Breaker

Join us in the Grad House boardroom for some snacks and chats. There is a bar onsite.

Registration

Sign in and get your registration package at the Geospatial Centre, located on the third floor of the Dana Porter Library.

uWaterloo Google Map Maker event - Jonathan Morgan

In the fall of 2012, with the support of the University of Waterloo Library and the Google Map Maker Community Team, the Geospatial Centre hosted a 2 day Google Map Maker event. Google Map Maker is a collaborative mapping environment which combines all users’ local knowledge with comprehensive satellite imagery to create accurate and up to date Google maps of the world.

The Geospatial Centre had 3 goals for organizing this event:

1. Promote the Geospatial Centre and our services to other faculties on campus
2. Make a more detailed Google map of the University of Waterloo campus
3. Teach geospatial skills to students from different faculties

This successful event attracted over 200 participants from across campus. This session will present an overview of the Google Map Maker event and give a live demonstration of this on-line mapping application.

Creating instructional videos - Tanya Kenesky

In 2011 the U of T Mississauga Library created a block of instructional videos to supplement our print GIS and data guides.  Today some of those videos have over 18,000 views! The success of these initial videos has led us to create more instructional videos to supplement both course work and various software such as Google Earth, ArcMap and ArcGIS Explorer Online. In this session we will explore how to create these videos, best practices and lessons learned.

Using ArcGIS Explorer Online - Tanya Kenesky
 

Practice your GIS skills in this hands-on session using ArcGIS Explorer Online.  This session will be a walkthrough of a course assignment from a unique 1^st year Environment course which not only utilizes a free online GIS application but also uses open data.  Following this hands-on session, we will show how we supported the large course of 730 students by use of online instructional videos.

Geo-caching activity - James McCarthy

Dress for the outdoors!

This hands-on session will focus on using GPS receivers for data collection in the field. Participants will learn how to prepare the GPS units before going out to the field, how to use the GPS units to navigate to points of interest, how to collect data in the field and how to bring that data back into GIS software. Data collection using smartphones will also be discussed.

Mapping crowdsourced information in ArcGIS Online - Steve Xu

During this hands-on session, participants will create an online form, submit information and then display the submissions on an interactive map.

A Google account is required for this session.

For this workshop, please fill out this form:

http://goo.gl/NKugq

The Wayfinding project: a pedestrian survey - Sara Neault

People are always working-out ways of walking through campus, skirting around new buildings, towards a faculty not yet visited. Mapping the Campus Using Locative Media is an experimental mapping method which harvests the local knowledge of the pedestrian and represents that knowledge as a part of a collaborative map.

In addition to a map of the asphalt and paver paths already installed on campus, and in addition to adding names to these paths to orient users, and providing addresses and branding the Pedestrian Survey has generated a map of the paths people use, and a process through which that map can be persistently updated and tagged with text, photos, audio, and video.

The Pedestrian Survey's map shifts from a top-down map towards a bottom-up map: in addition to a map measured and drawn and organized with layers of names and map icons, this map traces/tracks the space that is occupied, and collects some record of the things that happened in that space. With a good interface, this cloud of user-generated data could revolutionize wayfinding in a persistently changing place.

uWaterloo pedestrian traffic map - Geoff Christou

Learn about this recent study done on the uWaterloo campus, the methods used to collect the data, map it, present it to stakeholders and have a look at the resulting HTML5 program.

Project Review 2013 exhibit - Design at Riverside

Tour the gallery and see the work created by students at the School of Architecture between May 2012-April 2013. (Optional)

Geospatial literacy instruction in a blended learning environment - Gord Beck

'Blended learning' is a concept receiving considerable attention in academic circles these days. Universities and colleges around the world are searching for alternate ways of transferring knowledge through methods that engage and empower students in taking ownership of their own education. McMaster University's Lloyd Reeds Map Collection has taken part in a pilot project aimed at shifting geospatial literacy instruction to a 'blended learning' environment. Hear the results of the project and assess the potential benefits for your own educational communities.

Walk to Springbank Pavillion

(Weather dependant)

Tour of Special Collections - Jane Britton

We'll be touring the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room and the University of Waterloo Archives, featuring unique items detailing the history of the Grand River Conservation Authority.

Round-table Discussion

In today’s digital environment, how can we make our paper collections more accessible?

Beyond Arc_GIS.com, what other open source mapping application are available to our clients? What open source data?

What's new with you?

Come prepared to talk about any major changes in your workplace, or give us a tour of your new web pages or other online resources you've created.

Wrap-up

Give us your feedback! Who's hosting in 2015?!