The Why of Where: Geospatialization Workshop

Learn how to make your projects extra-spatial during this training! This is a process-based workshop.  We focus on brainstorming, exploring possibilities, and project planning as well as critical concepts in spatial thinking to help students (and facilitators!) understand the capabilities of geospatial technology and how it can be applied in projects and integrated with other softwares. This is agreat course for beginners; it will also prepare you to attend a Why of Where workshop. Make sure that your facilitator knows that she/he is needed in this workshop as well as students!

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PRE-REQUISITES:  FACILITATORS ARE ASKED TO BE PRESENT IN THIS WORKSHOP!!!!!!

Required preparation for The Geospatialization Workshop: Every student that comes to this workshop 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:

1. Your facilitator needs to have an ArcGIS Online Organization account established. Please contact us if help is needed.

2. Each student will need an ArcGIS Online account in your Organization (see Step 1).

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.