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| Subject: | GISList: Teaching Software advice sought |
| Date: |
08/15/2002 01:14:48 PM |
| From: |
Rick Gray |
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Hello friends:
After a brief absence from the list, I am back.
As you may deduce from my signature below, I
have taken on some new and exciting challenges,
and it is for one of these challenges that I am
seeking advice from the list.
As GIS Program Liaison with Ridgetown College,
I am involved in curriculum development for a
new, one year, GIS Post Diploma Certificate
program. Our program will focus on Agriculture
and on Municipal GIS, the former because of the
college's long history and expertise with
agriculture, the latter because of the strong
relationship we have with the local government
and their interest in this program.
At this very early stage, we are considering
courses in programming (VB, Avenue), database
management (Access, Oracle, and SQL), some
overview type courses that will cover the likes
of cartographic principles, precision farming,
etc., an intro to remote sensing, spatial
stats, etc. - all, of course, with respect to
our dual focus. We also would like to offer a
course in data acquisition that will deal with
GPS, data loggers, on-screen digitizing, etc.
In other words, we want to provide students
with the essential tools they will need in
either field.
The advice I seek from you is this:
1. What software should we be looking at and
why? (Our list is still very short - only the
ESRI and GeoMedia families are on it so far.)
This is an invitation to both users and vendors
to offer suggestions. I would also like to
know what software to avoid - if you have had
any bad experiences - e.g. tech support, bugs,
pricing surprises, etc. If you are a software
vendor, we are very interested in seeing what
you have to offer so that we may consider all
options.
2. Given our two areas of emphasis - can you
suggest courses that would be useful for the
students to have (i.e. if you are in one of
these industries, what courses would you like
to have had, or wish you could hire employees
with?) ?
I appreciate all your opinions and advice and
will do my best to summarize the results,
although it may take a while to wade through
and sort it out.
Rick
Rick Gray
GIS Specialist, Ontario Weather Network
Liaison, GIS Post Diploma Certificate Program
Ridgetown College, University of Guelph
Tel. 519-674-1554
E-mail: rgray@ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca
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