National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence

Empowering colleges to expand the geospatial workforce.

Vince DiNotoDean of College and Systemic Initiatives co-PI GeoTech CenterAACC Geospatial mentorVince.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

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•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

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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