GRAIL Training Room Schedule 11_24_08

Upcoming FREE workshops at the Geospatial Research and Information Lab

GRAIL Workshop Series


Integrating Data into Google Earth - Tuesday Nov. 25, 10:00-12:00

Basic GPS - Tuesday Dec. 2. 10:00-12:00


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Hear what people are saying about GRAIL workshops............

The presentation and hands on demonstration we were given was very instructive and an eye opener.

It touched on things that are useful in the modern day GIS industry. I particularly liked the presentation on the merging of technologies, Google Earth and ArcGIS, and how they can be used to generate customized GIS maps.

Thank you for the great learning experience.

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Just a quick thank you for having our class over at GRAIL yesterday. The Instructor did a great job giving us a tour of Google Earth and ArcMap capabilities. I can't wait to try out Arc GIS 9.3-thank you so much for the student edition.

GRAIL is a fantastic lab - I wish the Geography department used this facility more often-what a great resource for GIS folks.

GRAIL Traning Room Re-imaged

All of the computers in the training room have been re-imaged and are ready to go!

Training Room Schedule 11/17 - 11/21

ESRI International User Conference

Just a heads up. Abstracts are due on Friday, Nov. 14 for ESRI UC in San Diego. This year the conference is a month earlier, July 13-17. We will be hosting an entire session on Field Based Mapping Teaching Techniques in Higher Ed. at the conference this year!

Ghost Image for Lab Machines

The new lab machine image is almost finished. If you have any last minute programs you would like to have loaded let me know. Also, ALL LOCAL DATA STORED ON THE MACHINES WILL BE WIPED OUT!!!!! Make sure you have a backup of anything that is stored locally on the machines!

The lab computers will also be running ArcGIS 9.3 and ENVI 4.5.

GRAIL workshop series

We have developed 5 basic level workshops that will be offered each week throughout November and December. They are posted on the eLearning training website.

http://www.nau.edu/~d-elearn/training/index.php

The workshops are:

Basic GIS 11/12
15 Minute Map 11/18
Integrating Data into Google Earth 11/25
Basic GPS 12/2
Using the GRAIL GIS Data Server 12/9

I would like to offer these each at least once next semester as well.

Also, Crystal has mentioned that she and Tabitha Graves in Forestry are putting together some very cool sounding workshops as well. Will keep you updated

Phone jacks installed

The phone jacks in the computer lab have been installed. As mentioned there is one for analog phones (polycom conference) and for digital (standard speaker phone). They have been activated for long distance as well. The jacks are labeled with the phone number for each.

Phone Jacks in Lab

I have put in a request to have two phone lines activated in the GRAIL training room.

Hopefully this will alleviate any further issues involving calling into webinars in the lab

One jack will be analog to accommodate a polycom conference phone, the other will be digital if you want to use a typical speakerphone.

The two jacks will be located in the floor panel at the center/far back side of the room.

I will let you know when this becomes active.

There will be electrical work in the computer lab sometime Monday or Tuesday (Oct 27-Oct28). If you to work in there, it would probably be best to pick a computer in the front two rows. They will be installing outlets for the ceiling projectors!

Re-imaging the computers in the lab

We will be re-imaging the computer lab next week. That means that all “local” data will be wiped out. If you have meaningful data sitting on the machines in the lab, please wipe it out early next week.This also means that we need your input as to what software should be loaded on the machines. If you have any special requests or pet software, please let me or Paul know. For those of you that have the lab scheduled for next week, please rest easy and know that the imaging will take place well before or after you are scheduled to use it.

Welcome to the GRAIL blog

This is a first installment of an attempt to keep folks that work at the GRAIL facility informed as to the happenings in the GRAIL computer room.

I am going to make a significant attempt to try and pump out at least one post per week

Eventually, I would like to make this a venue to introduce new ideas, software, data, etc. .....lets just see how it goes