June 13, 2025 - GIS Meeting and More Advanced GIS Progress

Today, I had a 45 minute meeting with Weihong, Matt and Steve Johnson who has agreed to teach GEOG 3600 as an adjunct faculty member in fall 2025. I was there since my course will be used as a shell to help him get started with teaching the class. We advised him about all of the nuances and idiosyncrasies of running the intro class with various student computing experiences, providing students with ArcGIS Online accounts, managing the lab, student attendance and dealing with the proliferation of cheating on journal assignments (basically, journals have been made obsolete because students cannot help themselves from cheating, so instead they should be given pop quizzes and in class assignments only for their graded portions of the class). My introduction to Geology students are going to have a rude awakening to this when I return from sabbatical. The classroom has to be flipped such that graded assignments are done in person and low stakes learning has to be done at home, otherwise 1/2 the students' grades become a farce due to AI use. It's not good for the experience of non traditional students or the fun of in class experiences, but they can thank the AI overlords for this change. 

For my work on the Advanced GIS textbook I have decided to do as little linking to website links as possible. I will instead do heavy referencing and reconstruct whatever figures I need to make on my own. Where necessary, I will consult with the library about copyright issues. 

3 hours of work today.