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iGuess GIS course
An iGuess course will be held at Geel, Belgium from Monday 20 Sept to Friday 24 Sept 2010
Course
The iGuess partners created a course to enable you to develop your own GIS exercises
and use them in your classroom. The expertise gathered in the project covers a broad,
unique, range of fields.
If you complete our course, you will be issued an educational GIS Certificate, to which licenses
for GIS software will be linked. Besides your newly acquired GIS skills, you will
take home the necessary software.
Course programme:
Day 1: Introduction and basics of spatial thinking and GIS learning
Day 2: GIS exercises, in several subjects and applied to several European countries, such as researching
and mapping black stork nests, industrial zones, genetically modified crops, earthquakes and seismic
activity, and exploring the world with Maths
Day 3: Fieldwork with GPS to collect and process geo-data
Day 4: Didactical guidelines for preparation and development of own exercise
Day 5: Presentation at European Parliament in Brussels, with official presentation of an educational GIS
Certificate to the course participants, introduction to the Lifelong Learning Programme and evaluation.
Course language: English
Costs (you can apply for a complete refund at your own national agency):
1200 euro (800 euro for subsistence, and 400 euro for the course)
Contact: Els van Turnhout, Administrative coordinator
els.vanturnhout@telenet.be
for more information and help with your application.
Place of course:
Geel/Brussels, Belgium
Google map location
Date of course:
Monday 20 Sept to Friday 24 Sept 2010, Sunday and Saturday are travel days!
Download the folder on the iGuess course .pdf