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National Visiting Committee Meeting 2006
March 30, 2006, San Diego
High School Outreach
Ming-Hsiang (Ming) Tsou, Ph.D. Department of
Geography, SDSU E-mail mtsou_at_mail.sdsu.edu Tony
Howser Department of Geography
San Diego State University
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Three Major High Schools in San Diego

• Helix Charter High School Teachers
• Paula Ann Trevino (social studies), M.Ed, Social
  Studies Department Chair, (patrevi_at_helixcharter.ne
  t)
• Garry Wilcox (social studies) gwilcox_at_helixcharter
  .net
• High Tech High Teachers
• Dr. Jay Vavra (bio) ltjvavra_at_hightechhigh.orggt
• Rod Buenviaje (math) rbuenviaje_at_hightechhigh.org
• Tom Fehrenbacher (humanities) lttfehrenbacher_at_hight
  echhigh.orggt
• Hoover High Teacher
• Ellen Towers, Academy Coordinator/Teacher
  (etowers_at_sandi.net)

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Helix High School Outreach

• 2005 GIS Day Visit (120 students).
• 2006 March Visit (120 students).
• 2005 - 2006 Develop Web-based Learning modules
  for Human Geography Course -- Evaluate how
  effective the Web-based learning modules for
  aiding Geography Education.
• 2006 Fall Semester, the First GIS course (GIS
  1c/2c) at Helix High. (need more training and
  resource for this new course.

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Master Thesis (Chen)
Title Implementation and Effectiveness of
Web-based Geographical Information System (GIS)
in High School EducationThis research seeks to
investigate the feasibility of Web-based
geographic information system (GIS) adoption in
high school education. Educators encounter many
challenges while applying the standard desktop
GIS. Web-based GIS is viewed as an alternative to
overcome the barriers to the diffusion of GIS in
education, including difficulties in maintaining
hardware equipment, time limitations in learning
software and developing teaching materials. The
goal of this research is to address how
effectively Web-based GIS could be used to assist
high school education.
Testing 120 students and compare the Web-GIS
learning outcome (scores) to previous year
(non-WebGIS) In the same human geography course.
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GIS 1c/2c (High School)

• Helix High (Charter School in California) will
  start the first high school-level GIS course in
  Fall 2006 Semester -- GIS 1C/2C
• Term 1 (Fall)
• Unit 1 Introduction to GIS
• Unit 2 Web Based GIS
• Unit 3 Basics GIS using ArcExplorer Java
  Edition
• Mapping Our World lessons
• Term 2 (Spring)
• Unit 4 Teacher Directed GIS unit
• Unit 5 Data collection and analysis
• Unit 6 Student Created/Driven GIS Capstone
  Course Project

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High Tech High School Outreach

• 2005 GIS Day Talks in HTH (four classes, at HTH,
  over 100 students).
• Web-based Mapping Tools for Biology course
• Web-based Mapping Tools for Scientific project
  (Soil Map).
• GIS books and flyers.
• San Diego Bay Field Guide Project Book Title
  Perspectives of San Diego Bay A Field Guide
• (Tony Howser help them to create GIS maps and
  technology introduction

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http//www.sdbayguide.com
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Hoover High School Outreach

• 2005 Visit (on-site).
• GIS books and flyers.
• 2006 Visit (on-site).
• Web-based Mapping Tools Obesity and Fast Food
  (Overweight Students)
• Google Earth Learning Module Development
  (underdevelopment now).

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Hoover High Obesity and Fast Food (Overweight
Students)
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2006 Visit (Video)
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High School Teacher Training Workshop ? (Summer
2006 ?).Or High School Principles/Department
Chair workshop?
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Multimedia Web GIS(Google Earth Movies)
Movie created by video editing software
adding titles, effects, sounds, and music.