Teaching Resources for Instructors – Welcome to the MapCalc Educational Materials for Instructors… software and resource materials for teaching grid-based map analysis. The MapCalc Instructor CD contains a multi-user license for the MapCalc Educational software for a single computer lab, all of the educational support material on the MapCalc Student CD and an additional CD containing over 500MB of teaching materials.

The MapCalc Academic supplemental CD includes… (click on the links to view example materials)

GM_seminars – instructional materials for a general seminar and half-day workshops on GIS Modeling including lecture presentations and hands-on exercises.

GM_workshop – instructional materials for a one-day workshop in GIS Modeling with lecture presentations and workbook materials.

PF_workshop – instructional materials for a two-day workshop in Precision Agriculture with lecture presentations and exercises.

GM_course – instructional materials for an upper-division course in GIS Modeling including lecture presentations, exams, readings, exercises and other support materials using MapCalc Learner software.

General_ppt – over thirty other PowerPoint presentations on GIS Modeling, Precision Ag and other spatial technology topics presented at a variety of forums.

The materials reflect the circumstances of their original presentation and are not designed for direct use. You are encouraged to reorganize, edit and integrate the materials with our own resources as appropriate for your class offering. Much of the material was developed and originally presented at the University of Denver and the author greatly appreciates the opportunity to serve as the W. M Keck Scholar in the Department of Geography. Without this intellectually stimulating atmosphere these materials would not have been compiled.

The MapCalc Educational Materials include several sets of resources developed by Joseph K. Berry (© Joseph K. Berry, 1990-2002). You are free to use the materials for educational purposes. If you use copies of the materials for professional presentations and papers, please reference as “(After Berry)” within any graphics and cite in the references section as “Berry, J.K., 2001. MapCalc Educational Materials, with MapCalc Academic software by Red Hen Systems, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, www.redhensystems.com.”

As appropriate, cite the MapCalc Learner-Academic software as “MapCalc^TM Learner-Academic software, www.redhensystems.com, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA” and the Surfer Tutorial software as “Surfer^TM Tutorial software, www.goldensoftware.com, Golden, Colorado, USA.”

The educational materials supporting MapCalc and Surfer are constantly being revised and you are encouraged to periodically visit www.innovativegis.com/basis and www.redhensystems.com for more information and current status. Questions and comments on contents concerning the educational materials should be directed to jberry@innovativegis.com. If you encounter a software difficulty please email a description of the problem to surfersupport@goldensoftware.com or support@redhensystems.com as appropriate.