Toward Widespread Geographic Information Literacy: An Undergraduate Computer Laboratory for Geographic InformationScience

该项目的主要目标是通过为本科生提供更多使用当前技术的机会和指导来提高地理课程，这些技术包括统计学、地理信息系统（GIS）、制图学、遥感和研究方法等课程中的计算机应用。这将通过将现有的混合模式讲座/实验室教室改造成最先进的教学实验室来实现。该实验室将由18台配备高分辨率显示器的奔腾II型计算机、一台大幅面数字化平板电脑、两台激光打印机、一台彩色扫描仪和一台xga级投影仪和屏幕组成。一些外围设备已经到位（平板电脑、扫描仪和一台激光打印机），可以从所有计算机访问。实验室将使每个学生都能使用一台工作站。它有一个投影系统，为学生提供易于遵循的教学演示，它是完全联网的，这样学生就可以访问中央服务器上的数据以及完全访问互联网。本实验室采用适当的软件，教授本科生地理信息科学原理，包括传统与空间统计学、地图学、地理信息系统和遥感。学生将在技术课程中学习这些工具，然后能够将它们应用到其他更系统的课程中，包括地理研究方法、天气与气候、城市规划和地理形态学。该实验室将大大增加接受计算机概念和技术指导的学生人数，从每年大约40人增加到200多人。此外，教学质量有望提高，因为我们的学生不再需要在课堂教学时间共享工作站。此外，我们的学生现在将能够做更多的应用程序比可能与计算机在目前的实验室。

The primary objective of this project is to enhance the geography curriculum by providing undergraduate students greater access to and instruction in the use of current technology -- computer applications in courses in Statistics, Geographic information Systems (GIS), Cartography, Remote Sensing, and Research Methods. This would be achieved by converting an existing mixed-mode lecture/lab classroom into a state-of-the-art instructional lab. The lab will consist of eighteen Pentium II computers with high-resolution monitors, one large-format digitizing tablet, two laser printers, a color scanner, and an XGA-class projector and screen. Some of the peripheral devices are already in place, (he tablet, scanner, and one laser printer), and would be accessible from all computers. The lab will enable each student to have access to a workstation. It has a projection system to provide students with easily-followed instructional demonstrations, and it is fully networked so that students have access to data on a central server as well as full access to the internet. The lab employs appropriate software for teaching undergraduates the principles of geographic information science, including traditional and spatial statistics, cartography, geographic information systems, and remote sensing. Students will learn these tools in the techniques courses, and then be able to apply them in other more systematic courses, including Geographic Research Methods, Weather & Climate, Urban Planning, and Geo-morphology. The lab will dramatically increase the number of students who would receive some instruction in computer-based concepts and techniques, from approximately 40 per year to over 200. Also, the quality of instruction is expected to improve as the our students no longer need to share workstations during class instruction time. Furthermore, our students will now be able to do a much greater variety of applications than possible with the computers in the current lab.