{"id":4569,"date":"2015-01-22T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal-clone\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:16:27","slug":"interterm-course-2015-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/2015\/01\/22\/interterm-course-2015-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Interterm Course 2015 &#8212; Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spatial Analysis Lab was excited to kick of 2015 with an intro to GIS interterm course in the first week of January Term! 14 students joined us in the SAL for 5 days of GIS exploration with\u00a0ArcGIS.<\/p>\n<p>The course was structured around the development of key GIS skills. Each day focused on one or two of those skills, so that by the end of the week students were equipped with a basic understanding of working in the\u00a0ArcGIS suite:<\/p>\n<p>Day 1: Navigating in ArcMap &#8212; Siting a New Northampton Health Clinic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skills: Add and order data, change symbology, add labels, field calculator, select by attribute, create new layer from selection, buffer, select by location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Day 2: Georeferencing Historic Map and Joining Spreadsheet Data<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skills: Georeferencing, joining tables<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4572  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2015\/03\/snow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"515\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Day 3: Explore Symbology and Classifications &#8212; Firearm Safety Atlas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skills: Create choropleth map, normalize data, create proportional symbols map, create categorical map, learn\u00a0layout mode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Day 4: Raster Data &#8212; Bikeability of Five College Towns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skills: Slope tool, Euclidian distance tool, clip tool, spatial join<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Day 5: Map Challenge &#8212; Local Farmers Markets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skills: bringing all learned skills together to create own map from scratch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The week-long course also\u00a0included daily optional sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GPS data collection (in the snow!)<\/li>\n<li>A two part introduction to ArcGIS Online<\/li>\n<li>A lunchtime film session\u00a0exploring GIS foundations of the past (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eAFG6aQTwPk\">Data for Decisions, 1967<\/a>) and a few videos of innovations in GIS today (<a href=\"http:\/\/video.esri.com\/watch\/3656\/mining-for-space_dash_time-patterns\">3d spatial-temporal data visualization<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.esri.com\/watch\/3657\/designing-our-future-urban-redevelopment-authority\">urban planning with city engine<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CG11F0RX8WE\">UAV data collection and photogrammetry<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to all who participated. We appreciate the hard work and persistence through the program, data, and personal challenges. Welcome to the world of GIS!<\/p>\n<p>For those who couldn&#8217;t participate, but are interested &#8212; we are looking to host a similar course in May of this year, however, we need a couple more participants to make it happen &#8212; if you are interested please write to Victoria at vbeckley@smith.edu so that we can add\u00a0you to\u00a0the list.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally &#8212; keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming announcement of Spring 2015 workshop offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I would like to thank CATS for such responsive technical support, and Jon Caris for sharing his expert GIS knowledge. Thank you to the people at Esri for designing the program and sticking with us through all our requests throughout the years, and finally to the academy. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spatial Analysis Lab was excited to kick of 2015 with an intro to GIS interterm course in the first week of January Term! 14 students joined us in the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/2015\/01\/22\/interterm-course-2015-recap\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interterm Course 2015 &#8212; Recap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":5558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,14,27,30],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arcgis","category-classes","category-gis","category-spatial-thinking","category-teaching","tag-interterm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Interterm Course 2015 - Recap - Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/2015\/01\/22\/interterm-course-2015-recap\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interterm Course 2015 - Recap - Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Spatial Analysis Lab was excited to kick of 2015 with an intro to GIS interterm course in the first week of January Term! 14 students joined us in the&hellip;&nbsp;Interterm Course 2015 &#8212; 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