If you find yourself one afternoon with nothing to do – I know this never actually happens at Smith, but bear with me – I would highly suggest spending a few hours in the SAL, people-watching. At first glance, this may sound like a rather boring activity. Who would want to watch students furiously clicking for […]
Category Archives: Updates
March Mystery Map
We’re excited to announce our first Mystery Map Competition of 2016! Like the carillon map, we used CartoDB to make this an interactive mystery map. Click on the image below to see the full thing. Once you have an idea of what this map might be showing, use the form below to submit your guess. Good luck! [123-contact-form […]
Using Story Maps to explore climate change vulnerability at Smith
By Karen Yu ’16 This year, Story Maps have been an increasingly important part of what we do in the SAL – see our recent post Story Maps in the Classroom for an overview of the different ways we’ve been using them. A quick recap for those that don’t know: Story Maps are a user-friendly way to look […]
A Low Altitude Aerial Perspective of San Salvador, The Bahamas
What do the Bahamas make you think of? Maybe beautiful beaches, nice resorts, and possibly coral reefs? I know that my first associations with the Bahamas were definitely not drones and hurricanes, but this January I got to see how these things all fit together. I had the privilege of joining a crew from the […]
Story Maps in the Classroom
Maps are increasingly popular as storytelling tools in the world of digital media – just a glance at the homepages of the New York Times, The Atlantic, or the Huffington Post confirms that. We’ve experienced this wave of mapping enthusiasm in the SAL, and it’s already started changing how we teach GIS. Moreso than conventional GIS maps, Story […]
Interterm GIS Course
Like most years, the SAL team taught a week-long GIS course during interterm to give a GIS jumpstart to students who want to learn what GIS is all about but can’t take (or haven’t yet taken) the semester-long GIS course. This year, however, we made some big changes to our curriculum that we’re pretty excited […]
SAL website feedback
Whether you’re a regular, occasional, or potential user of our website, please help us to better serve you by filling out the following short survey. [123-contact-form i1701302]
December Mystery Map winners
Out of the 70 people who viewed our Musical Mystery Map in December, eight sent in answers, and nearly all of them got at least a part of the question right. So, in order of submission, here’s who correctly guessed that the size of the bubbles represented number of bells: Leslie Vicente Soto Anonymous (we […]
Snowflake Map
Following the popularity of our Thanksgiving break Tofurky Map, the SAL team has put together a Snowflake Map to see where the Smith community will be spending the holiday break. Scroll down to put your own snowman on the map and to see where your classmates are travelling! Loading… Refresh page to see your submission.
November Mystery Map Wrap-Up
Our November Mystery Map has been live for three weeks, and since most Smithies are now concentrating more on procrastinating finals than on last month’s election, we’ve decided it’s time to wrap up the competition. As a reminder, here’s what the Mystery Map looked like: As another reminder, we issued a hint ten days ago that […]