Digital Map Storytelling, Our Storymap Prototype Up and Running
We are indeed getting started with Digital Map Storytelling, and we have one of our first prototypes up and running! Weeks ago, I was approached by a student looking to map out food sources to connect to institutions. I outlined our conversation in the blog post, Getting Started With Digital Map Storytelling. This conversation let me...
We’re Hiring!
There are always interesting opportunities for those interested in GIS and Instructional Technology at Skidmore College. Here are a few of them. 1) Full time summer GIS/Instructional Technology Position. https://careers.skidmore.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=166585 2) 5 Hour a week GIS Lab Assistant Position (now until end of semester) https://skidmore.studentemployment.ngwebsolutions.com/JobXJobDetail.aspx?JobId=4512&s=1 3) New York 6 Instructional Technology Apprentice Program (available to...
Getting Started With Digital Map Storytelling
So, today I was sitting with a student working on a sustainability project. Her goal is to connect local farms in upstate NY with institutional distributors in upstate NY. One key for this project was having an online interface that could be adopted statewide.We had met a couple times and had begun to do some...
Welcome back from spring break from the Skidmore College GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research
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How Can GIS Support Sustainability on Campus? [UPDATED]
At Skidmore College, sustainability is a clear theme that seems to be impacting every aspect of the residential academic experience. Here at the GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research we are also seeing more and more GIS requests relating to sustainability and resilience, with a clear focus on energy, foods, and generally, living with a focus...
The Geography of the Creative Thinking [UPDATED]
Maps are becoming more than what people have traditionally referred to as maps. They are becoming personal, creative, unique representations of the seen and unseen world. Here are some examples. Recently it has been brought to my attention that when people think about maps, they think about the old Rand McNally road maps or they...
Location Matters: NPR Story links Plankton to Politics
A recent NPR story was shared with me by a Skidmore College Geologist, Dr. Amy Frappier. The article makes a link between ancient seas and plankton to modern presidential voting patterns, telling the story of how the land’s ancient sea led to fertile soil, to cotton production and plantations, to current voting patterns. What a...
The New and Improved GIS Center in the Library is Hiring
Ch ch ch changes…. So, if you have been in Dana lately you have noticed that the old GIS Center is no longer a student space, but is being used for administrative purposes. So, for anyone used to using the Center on a regular basis, your return to campus this fall will be bittersweet. While...
Getting Started With The Skidmore Community Carpool
Hi Folks, Well, you already know carpooling is a good thing. So how do you find someone to carpool with from the Skidmore Community? A few years ago, a Skidmore GIS student worked to create a map of all the people that work at Skidmore College. You can view it here: With this map, you...
We’re Hiring
The Skidmore College GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research is hiring. Currently we have an opening for a paid full time employee for the summer of 2012. There also are positions working in the *new* GIS Center as a student assistant in fall 2012. Specifically for students, we are also looking at for-credit project internships, especially...
Mystery Map X Revealed
Price Chopper vs. Wegmans Supermarkets Spend a lifetime in your Saratoga Springs Price Chopper supermarket and you might overhear but a murmur—while Price Chopper markets abound in Saratoga (we have three!), upstate New York’s other supermarket titan, Wegman’s, is entirely absent. That murmur thus begs the question: why is Price Chopper Saratoga’s dominant supermarket? Where...
