TEACHING

Teaching GIS in the classroom and the community by Dr. Tsou and his graduate students

Teaching Innovations

• The GIS iBook development: the "Introduction to GIScience" Collaborative Textbook Project for iPad devices. Editors: Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Cynthia Paloma (graduate student), and Yi-ting Chuang (graduate student): http://mappingideas.sdsu.edu/ibook/

• GIS Career and Education Awareness website and online learning modules: http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech/
• Geospatial Technology Summer Workshops for community college teachers and high school teachers (2009 – 2013): http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech/GISWorkshop2012.htm
• GIS Class Web Sites (San Diego State University): (including lecture notes, on-line forum, and web-based exercises).
  1. GEOG 104 (Geographic Information Science and Spatial Reasoning):
     http://map.sdsu.edu/geog104
  2. GEOG 381 (Computerized Map Design):
     http://map.sdsu.edu/geog381
  3. GEOG 484 (Introduction to Geographic Information Systems):
     http://map.sdsu.edu/geog484
  4. GEOG 583 (Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices):
     http://map.sdsu.edu/geog583/
  5. GEOG 581 (Cartographic Design): http://map.sdsu.edu/geog581/
  6. Wireless Mobile GIS: GEOG 789 Seminar (Spring 2010 Seminar):
     http://map.sdsu.edu/GEOG780-mobileGIS-syllabus2010-final.pdf
  7. Web Mapping and Social Media: GEOG 780 Seminar:
     http://map.sdsu.edu/GEOG780-2015-Web-Mapping-and-Social-Media.pdf
• Social Networking Media (Facebook) for Teaching Aids: a Facebook Page for the introduction of Geospatial Technology. (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Geospatial-Technology-at-SDSU-GEOG104-GEOG381-GEOG583/129010146571?ref=mf).
• YouTube Channel for Geospatial Technology: http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech/GISVideos.htm

Movies

• Demonstration of Location-based Services ( LBS) (Google Earth, Google Map) on iPod Touch.

• Demo of the 3D Touch Table at the 2005 ESRI Conference

• Mobile GIS

• Mission Trails Regional Park Testing Scenario Movie by SDSU, Geography Department