The new Why of Where series moves beyond “technology training” to project training using advanced tools. Moving beyond simple point and click operations, this series is designed to assist students through the “process of analysis” to improve their skills in project development using ArcGIS. Each school will send a team of 3 or 4 students who plan to start a project in one of four themes: history, disasters, health, or water (choose the appropriate workshop). Teams from each school will begin each course with a guided, pre-packaged project and will personalize this project to fit their local needs. These projects will then be published online as Story Maps to support their local communities and to share with other students throughout EAST. Students attending these workshops are expected to continue, customize, and grow their project upon return to their school. CAST staff will provide regular post-workshop support and follow-up with students to assist, review, and encourage them in their projects. Online maps from the students’ projects will be featured on the EAST website.
Example: The perfect fit for this year’s National Service Project! So you've mapped the fire hydrants...now what? Working with local governments and/or Chambers of Commerce is a great way to help your community in a meaningful way, but what else can you do? Tons! Cities and counties take care of a lot of the infrastructure that we take for granted, from water distribution and road maintenance, to maintaining property records and assessing taxes. Chambers of Commerce work to attract industry and build tourism for local economic development. During this training, students will learn how to gather, evaluate, and analyze data commonly used by local governments and Chambers, with special focus on strategic planning for how this data will be shared and maintained over the long-term so that it continues to be of benefit.
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PRE-REQUISITE: Required preparation for The Why of Where workshops:
Every student that comes to these workshops needs to have some very basic GIS skills. We have identified a short, free online training course from ESRI that covers everything you need to know, and allows you to print a certificate that shows you have these basic skills. Please follow these steps:
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Your facilitator needs to have an ArcGIS Online Organization account established. Please contact us if help is needed.
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Each student will need an ArcGIS Online account in your Organization (see Step 1).
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Each student will need to take the online ESRI training course "Getting Started with GIS" (http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm?fa=catalog.webcoursedetail&courseid=2500). Here's the great part: If a student already knows some GIS basics, they can skip parts they know and go to the content which is new to them.
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At the end of "Getting Started with GIS" there is a 10-question exam. Each student will need to pass the exam (8 out of 10 questions correct), and save the customized certificate as a PDF file.
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E-mail the certificate PDF files for each student to east_support@cast.uark.edu before coming to training.
All attending students must complete the above preparation prior to training.