CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS and SAVE THE DATE for the 4th Annual GIS Educators Day Conference

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Saratoga Hilton Hotel, Saratoga Springs, NY

ABOUT GIS EDUCATORS DAY http://www.northeastarc.org/2011/html/giseducators.shtml

GIS Educators Day, sponsored by NEARC, esri, and the New England Geography Education Network, is a full-day conference devoted exclusively to topics and issues pertaining to the use of GIS and other geospatial technologies in K-12, college, and informal education. This unique event is a one day pre-conference to NEARC’s annual professional user conference

PRESENTATION FORMATS: Oral Presentation, Panel Presentation, Hands-on workshop, Poster Session

PRESENTATION TOPIC AREAS:

*Community Projects & Partnerships

*Teaching with GIS in Higher Education (projects, integrating GIS into courses, etc.) *Teaching with GIS in K-12 Schools (class and student projects, lessons, programs, etc.) *Teaching GIS: Strategies and Methods (GIS curricula, student projects, etc.) *Strategies for GIS Training for Educators (institutes, online courses, training events, etc.) *GIS in Informal Education *Integrating GIS with GPS/Remote Sensing *GIS in the Cloud *Open Source GIS *Emerging Topics: Mobile Devices and Crowdsourcing *Grab Bag

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

*The presentation cannot market specific products and services *Abstracts should be 150-200 words.

*Presenters must register and pay to attend the preconference at the regular preconference fee. (There will be a special Sunday/Monday rate for those who would like to stay for the first day of the main users conference) *Abstracts must be submitted by June 30, 2011

QUESTIONS:

Contact Lyn Malone or Alex Chaucer, GIS Educators Day Co-Chairs at lmalone@worldviewsgis.com achaucer@skidmore.edu

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT ONLINE AT http://is.gd/GISED