Monday, 7 December 2020

Teaching with GIS or about GIS? University educator's dilemma


Teaching who: for us, for companies?

About GIS, with GIS
Education or training
Tools or techniques/methods
Geography side approach towards Geoinformatics (the big picture for geographers)
European Context -> INSPIRE?

Terminology: GIS geoinformatics, GI Science … GI Society, GI Science and Technology
Spatial thinking
Geoinformatik in Germany -> spatial process with methods of informatics
What about Geomatics (origin surveying)
Cartography & geodesy as sub sections of …
NCGIA curriculum from the 1990s





Friday, 3 April 2020

Tartu Geo, a podcast about geography and geoinformatics

Tahmin, a student in our Geoinformatics for Urbanised society MSc programme, and I have been working hard over the last months to record, edit, and polish on our podcast project: a GIS-themed educational podcast from our Department of Geography (Geograafia osakond) here in Tartu, Estonia.

Introducing: Tartu Geo, a podcast about geography and geoinformatics related fields along with education, research, history, philosophy, ground breaking ideas and innovation. The show will also host guests from different sectors who will share insight about their research and work. We try to bring up new episodes every 15 days with exciting and newer topics of geoinformatics and geography. Stay tuned and happy listening.

https://tartugeo-podcast.com/

Please bear with us, we are still amateurs :-D The sound quality in some guest interviews is not great, but overall it is getting better and better as we progress. We have already several episodes lined up, and the podcast can be loaded from all the convenient places like iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and of course you can add the feed also directly to your podcast app.




Tartu Geo Podcast


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