[GIS5945]: Virtual GIS Day!
Today I sponsored a Virtual GIS Day to explore ways to promote GIS in the future, using these sites: 101 Ways to Participate Creating and Conducting GuestPresentations for Students Promoting Your Event - particularly the section with templates for a flyer and a PowerPoint presentation During the event, attendees noted how one of the key take-aways from “Creating and Conducting Guest Presentations for Students” was the recommendation to help students consider what sets their local neighborhood apart. We discussed using a landmark familiar to students in a presentation explaining what GIS is and why it is important. For Pensacola, Graffiti Bridge was suggested. Another recommendation in the “Creating and Conducting Guest Presentations for Students” presentation was to choose a particular local or global issue and contrast maps over time to open up a discussion on the “whys of where.” In line with this and continuing with the suggested landmark theme above, we discussed how a present