NHSTE Grant provides Google Nexus tablets for
K-12 GIS education in New Hampshire
June 2014 - Congratulations to Bob Woolner and other members of the NHEdGIS team for their successful application for the NHSTE Chris Nelson Memorial Grant.
The Cloud Connected Mapping grant will provide 10 GPS enabled tablets and a mobile hot spot to be used for field data collection in conjunction with ArcGIS Online editable feature services. The tablets will be used during our teacher workshops this summer, and in the fall at the pilot school districts (Hopkinton, Bow, Epping, and Plymouth). If all goes well, we hope to be able to loan these out to other interested NH school districts starting this spring through the New Hampshire Geographic Alliance loaner program which previously had GPS units available.
The grant also provides funds for professional development, and it looks like we are going to be able to bring Kathryn Keranen, geospatial educator extraordinaire up from Virginia to work with us on best practices for field data collection and the creation of editable feature services for use in ArcGIS Online.
The Cloud Connected Mapping grant will provide 10 GPS enabled tablets and a mobile hot spot to be used for field data collection in conjunction with ArcGIS Online editable feature services. The tablets will be used during our teacher workshops this summer, and in the fall at the pilot school districts (Hopkinton, Bow, Epping, and Plymouth). If all goes well, we hope to be able to loan these out to other interested NH school districts starting this spring through the New Hampshire Geographic Alliance loaner program which previously had GPS units available.
The grant also provides funds for professional development, and it looks like we are going to be able to bring Kathryn Keranen, geospatial educator extraordinaire up from Virginia to work with us on best practices for field data collection and the creation of editable feature services for use in ArcGIS Online.
The Chris Nelson Memorial grant is designed to fund projects which "have a foundation in the use of emerging instructional technologies to assist and enhance content delivery." Chris Nelson worked as a classroom teacher and then later as a director of information technology. She was recognized throughout the state as a leader in field of educational technology.