GeoPocket.org

Index
LectureTools: try it yourself
Equipment
Software
Presentations
Contact Info

Image directory at: http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/GeoPocket/photo_and_image_directory.htm.

Presentations

2004 AGU presentation on wireless handheld instruction (PowerPoint)

2005 Provost's Seminar on Teaching presentation (PowerPoint).

2005 GSA presentation on GeoPocket (PowerPoint).

2006 Enriching Scholarship 2006 (PDF).

LectureTools
New tools for exploring spatial information in class. The instructor selects an image from the Internet (or can upload an image) and poses a question to be answered by class, either through wireless technologies in the class or as homework. Student responses are collected by the server allowing the instructor to project the accumulated results for further discussion.

In class this technology is intended to expand the opportunities for student response when coupled with the use of discourse enhancing pedagogies.

Try it yourself:
http://www.lecturetools.org

Equipment

A suite of out-of-the-box equipment is used. No customizations are required beyond the standard set-up configuration process.

Wireless access points
Any access point will work. We use Cisco APs in the lecture hall illustrated above (Angell Hall Auditorium C). We also have a mobile set-up that uses a Linksys AP.

Router
A router is only necessary if you wish to use a private network for the activities and control (or even prevent) access to the Internet. We use a consumer-grade Linksys router to support the private wireless network to which students connect, and to bridge between that network and Internet when desired. (In practice, we always run with the bridge to the Internet enabled.)

In Angell Hall, we connect the "Internet" port on router to internet access in classroom (port on podium) and connect 1 of the 4 LAN ports to the private wireless network (located on wall) remaining ports 2-4 can connect other computers (e.g., additional instructor laptops or the geopocket server site). Internet access through the private wireless network can be restricted by disconnecting "internet" cable; a geopocket server connected to the router's LAN port, however, can still be accessed by the class.

Handhelds PocketPCs


h5550	h6315 series Setup for 6315 units: http://geopocket.org/Angell_Hall_Aud_C/iPAQ6315_setup.htm	rx1950

Software

Remote Control Display, for classroom projection of an individual PocketPC screen. Find a copy of the Microsoft Powertoy program remotedsp.exe. See, http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print/?TYPE=story&AT=2133619-39020442t-20000010c or http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/cuin6398-PDA/ipaq-tutorials/Remote-Display/old-remote-display.html

Field-oriented GeoPocket information can temporarily be found under the GeoPad project at http://geopad.org.

Contact Information

Group email:
geopocket@umich.edu
lecturetools@umich.edu

Individuals:
Peter Knoop: knoop@umich.edu (IT support)
Perry Samson: samson@umich.edu (instructor, software and application developer)
Stephanie Teasley: steasley@umich.edu (evaluation)
Ben van der Pluijm: vdpluijm@umich.edu (instructor, application developer, gopher)