Mobile Technology for Teaching Grant Workshops

• Kentucky 2004 GIS Conference Workshop - Hydrology and ArcHydro - September 30, 2004; Lexington, KY.
  This workshop emphasized the use of ArcGIS in water resource projects. Using the grant's Tablet PCs, it was possible to take the workshop to the conference. The Tablets' ink capabilities allowed our team member to make her presentation completely wireless! Participants used both the Tablet PC technology in conjunction with ArcGIS software on the Tablets to gain hands-on experience in terrain analysis using digital elevation models; development of watershed networks; and flood hydrology modeling with geospatial data.
  
  
  


• Lexington Community College In-Service Workshop - Mapping the UK Arboreteum - October 1, 2004; Lexington, KY.
  This faculty-staff mini-course focused on the development of data dictionaries and Trimble GPS applications by taking the students into the field. The use of the HP Tablet PCs enabled the students to develop their data dictionary using Pathfinder Office software in the field and subsequently upload their data dictionary to the Trimble GPS. Upon collection of raw, uncorrected GPS data, the data was downloaded back to the Tablet PC, from which students wre able to perform differential correction of their data in the field.
  


• Mobile Technology for Teaching Grant BAE Department Seminar - November, 2004.
  This faculty/student seminar was designed to expose BAE faculty and students not currently participating in the Mobile Technology Grant to the Tablet PCs, methodologies developed and lessons learned. Participants had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the equipment and team members were able to discern topics and questions that would need to be addressed in the College and Campus-wide workshops planned as part of the grant.
  
  
  


• Mobile Technology for Teaching Grant BAE Department Seminar - February 11, 2005.
  This faculty/student seminar was designed to expose BAE faculty and students not previously reached to the Tablet PCs, methodologies developed, and future plans for mobile technology in the department. Participants gained hands-on experience with the equipment and team members shared their technical and classroom experiences, good and bad, and fielded questions regarding hardware, software, and network issues.
  


• Mobile Technology for Teaching Grant Workshop - College of Agriculture - scheduled for May 2005.
  
  


• Mobile Technology for Distance Learning Workshop - College of Agriculture Extension - date to be announced.
  
  


• Mobile Technology for Teaching Grant Workshop - Campus-wide Offering - scheduled for June 2005.