{"id":350,"date":"2020-10-03T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-353\/?p=350"},"modified":"2020-10-03T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T15:30:24","slug":"week-8-course-project-rest-of-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-353\/2020\/10\/03\/week-8-course-project-rest-of-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8: Course Project & Rest of Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Geography 353, like 2020 in general, keeps stumbling along, headed in a direction that has now altered a bit.<\/p>\n

I’ve updated<\/strong> the course Schedule<\/strong><\/a> and Evaluation<\/strong><\/a> pages. Pooray.<\/p>\n

For this week:<\/p>\n

Week 8: Course Project & Rest of Semester<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, Oct. 5:<\/em>\u00a0Work Day!
\nWednesday, Oct. 7:<\/em>\u00a0Brief Presentations of Progress (PF Ch. 1 -3) & Course Project & Rest of Semester<\/p>\n

Monday, October 5:<\/strong> Since I’m getting this update to you a bit later than I expected (my Dr. said chill out! I did. Sorry) let us have another workday on Monday. As usual, I’m nappy to meet on Zoom or email if you have questions.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 7:<\/strong> I’d like to hear from all of you, summarizing your efforts to read and complete the tutorial work in Getting to Know WebGIS<\/em> chapters 1-3. Then I’d like to talk about the Course Project and the rest of the semester.<\/p>\n

Course project:<\/strong> I am going to scale this back as several project ideas that I had planned have fallen through. I’d like you to undertake your own project using the WebGIS stuff you are learning in the book. This can be just about anything. A few of you had ideas expressed earlier in the course.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, look at the Assignment<\/strong> at the end of each chapter in the Getting to Know WebGIS<\/em> book. These general assignments (which we did not complete, instead focusing on the tutorial part of the chapter) give you a good outline for a project that would draw from the techniques learned in the chapter.<\/p>\n

The project<\/b> is worth 75 points,<\/strong> and if you look at the Evaluation<\/strong><\/a> page for the course, you will see that this is about three times more points than working through and documenting one of the book chapter tutorials. That should give you a comparative idea of how much work to put into the project. The project should be completed by the end of the semester.<\/p>\n

Reading and Presenting Making Maps:<\/strong> we also neglected to spend much time on the readings from the Making Maps book. I’ve now included a Making Maps Marathon for weeks 9, 10, and 11. I’ve split the book into three sections and will have each of you present a chapter. Shoot for a 10-15 minute overview and feel free to use the PDF for the book as part of your presentation.<\/p>\n

Week 9: Monday, October 12:<\/strong><\/p>\n