ESRI and Manifold at the Skidmore College GIS Conference

The institution

On January 9, 2009 the Skidmore College Educator Conference will be held. This is an institution located in New York, To get an idea of this center, these are its numbers:

1903 Year of foundation
Students 2,400
44 represented States
32 Countries represented
9: 1 Ratio Student to Faculty
59% Women
41% Men
241 Full-time Teachers
16 Average Class Size
100 Student Clubs
19 Athletic Teams
43 Academic Departments
24,000 Alumni

The conference

This is the fourth time this conference is held, its objective is to promote knowledge and exchange of experiences through the involvement of technological institutions, educators and providers of geographic information services.

In past events, the exhibitors showed topics such as urban planning, operation of GPS systems, use of Google Earth in different disciplines and the use of GIS to visualize local history.

While Skidmore GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research use ArcGIS 9.2 as primary software for student use, this year it is being included in the theme of the Manifold GIS conference.

A good sign that this software is having a good reception in the teaching community, much better if within the theme we will be talking about the sustainability of the use of applications in universities.

The theme of this year.

In this year, the topics of interest focus on: