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Meet
the Project Team Members
Incentive
mini-grants awarded
The
project staff is pleased to announce the following mini-grants awarded
to faculty selected to incorporate geographical (spatial) components
in their courses using GIS mapping technologies. The modules they
create will be available fall 2004.
- Jonathan
Lee will integrate Inner Eurasian steppe lands as a unit
of analysis in the IDST 2372 (world history 1) course. The project
will develop interactive maps of the cultures of Inner Eurasia
in order to place them in historical and geographic context.
- Tom
Manzo will help Spanish 1411 students connect geography
with cultural and political development as a means for comprehending
geography's role in the history of Roman and Muslim culture in
Spain and the relationship of Spain's multi-lingual nature and
its regional politics to geography.These maps will facilitate
the linkages between modern and historic patterns.
- Nora
E. McMillan will create maps of the Aztec world that illustrate
factors involved in its success and influence in trade and its
vast political and socio-economic control throughout a vast region
that lasted until the Spanish conquest.
- Carla
L. Mendiola will examine the U.S. Southwest, from
the broader context of native and European settlement patterns
in Mexico and the U.S., to a closer examination of Texas and the
route of Cabeza de Vaca. HIST 1301 students will do mapping activities
that will show students how cultures from these different directions
moved over time and eventually converged.
The
project will make use of Arc Internet Map Server (ArcIMS) software
developed by Environmental Systems
Research Institute (ESRI), Inc. SAC is a site-licensed, designated
ESRI educational institution.
Please
send any questions, or comments to Carol A. Keller, Project Director,
email, ckeller@accd.edu
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