HERODOT-Working Conference: "Geography for Society: Putting Bologna into Action"

Stockholm, Sweden, 25-27 September 2007

Main conference page - presentations - HERODOT-ESRI session

HERODOT held its main 2007 conference in Stockholm, Sweden. This conference was a working conference where participants developed the themes of the network through the four working groups or thematic pillars.

The conference topic "Geography for Society:  Putting Bologna into Action", was closely linked to research that has been undertaken by the network during its first phase. This activity included the publication of TUNING Geography research and publication of the State of Geography report.

Conference presentations

Conference Welcome Karl Donert

Keynotes

State of Geography Karl Donert

TUNING Educational Structures Julia Gonzalez Ferreras (Deusto)

Geography, Dialogue and Social Integration in Europe (large file) Anne Buttimer (Dublin)

Welcome to ESRI User Conference 2007 (large file) - Jack Dangermond (ESRI)

During the conference, the thematic pillars undertook their own work programme to develop products and outputs. These included:

* the European dimension

* promoting Geography and the GEOcube

* innovative teaching

* employability

Other documentation

Updated TP1 papers (zip)

Updated TP2 Papers (zip)

Updated TP3 papers (zip)

Updated TP4 papers (zip)

Promoting Geography: tell us your views - Online Web questionnaire - Country report form (doc)

LATEST Student movie competition

LATEST TUNING Geography report v1

LATEST State of Geography report

Joint HERODOT-ESRI session

GIS in Education - presentations and papers

Svein Andersland and Arne Knudsen - GIS and Structural Changes in Upper Secondary School

Angela Baker - EUC 2008

Anders Brandt - Harmonised GIS curriculum - paper

Gerhard Bax - Interactive E-learning in Geoinformatics - experiences from the EU eduGI.net project

Mohamed Bualhamam - GIS for the job market - paper

Michaela Lindner - Pegdagogy for Virtual Globes - paper

Mary Fargher - classroom lessons from GIS pedagogy - paper

Josef Gspurning - Selected aspects of the development and implementation of a GIS curriculum for prospective high school teachers in Austria

Bob Koolvord - Connecting Project-based GIS curricula with secondary schools - paper

Alexander Siegmund, Daniel Volz and Kathrin Viehrig - GIS@school - new didactical aspects of using GIS in geography education - paper

Wolfgang Sulzer - “Geo-Spatial-Technologies”, a trans-university new integrative master degree

María Luisa de Lázaro y Torres - Learning about Spain through WebGIS - paper

Anders Welving - Stimulating GIS in Swedish schools - paper

ESRI Europe User conference home - all EUC 2007 presentations