CTC GIS Presentation

National Geospatial Technology Center of ExcellenceEmpowering colleges to expand the geospatial workforce.
Vince DiNoto
Dean of College and Systemic Initiatives
co-PI GeoTech Center
AACC Geospatial mentor
Vince.dinoto@kctcs.edu
Funded by National Science Foundation DUE 0801893

Spatial Thinking vs Jobs

What are the educational requirements?
Where are the jobs?
What are the tasks?
What is spatial literacy?

What is the GeoTech Center
An NSF funded ATE National Center of Excellence
Single point of contact for two year colleges
A Geospatial curriculum repository
A data warehouse (data, static maps, dynamic maps)
A best practice in Geospatial

GeoTech Center Players

Community College GIS Programs

GIS within KCTCS
There are two certificate programs
One developed by Bluegrass (when part of UK) - 24 credit hours
One developed in IT by KCTCS – 15 credit hours
IT 160 and IT 260 have both been virtualized with extensive video content
IT 268 has not been offered

GIS within KCTCS continued
Basemap (ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server)
GeoSpatial Data
Virtual Software (available to KCTCS students and workshop participants)

Basemap

Compressed data

Workshops
Offered as ½ day on Fridays throughout the academic year
December workshop
June workshops
Virtual
Partnership with National GeoTech Center

GeoTech Center
Access to all work done by the center
Curriculum
Data
DACUM
Online services for students
Work on DoL Codes
Dynamic and Static online maps
http://Geotechcenter.org

GeoTech Center continued

GeoEd`10
One day conference for secondary and post-secondary educators
Pre-conference workshops (June 21 and 22)
June 23, 2010 @ JCTC – SW
Stipends available
Free

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Contacting Us
Vince DiNoto
Vince.dinoto@kctcs.edu
502-213-7280
http://Techcenter.jefferson.kctcs.edu/gis/
http://geotechcenter.org
http://vincedinoto.blogspot.com
http://Education-gis.blogspot.com