Teaching with This Book

Instructor's Guide PreviewTeaching with the Third Edition of IGIS with ArcGISThis Preview is primarily to encourage you, the instructor, to register on the publisher's website, which is www.wiley.com/go/kennedygis.The Instructors Guide on the web site can be a valuable resource for those teaching with this text. There you will find advice on how to use the book to its fullest potential. Included there are answers to the questions posed to students in the text, sample assignments with blanks for the students to complete, test data for some assignments (to save you time should you wish to run some exercises), and suggestions of how to use the text. Also, the text has an in-class student-data-collection project, in Chapter 5, which, without some advice by someone who has been through it, can seem like an exercise in herding cats. What follows below is the barest minimum required to get a class started.

Quick Start Guide

All the datasets for the Exercises are on the DVD that accompanies the book.

The contents of the following folders on the DVD must be available to the students. There are these folders:

IGIS-Arc the primary source of data sets for the exercises

IGIS-Arc_AUX a source for datasets occasionally needed for exercises

Color_Figures images of all figures in the text. Color in many of these images enhances information that suffers from the gray scale reproduction of the book. CellTool has a script that is used for Spatial Analyst exercises in Chapter 8

Samples_Toolbox contains a toolbox that students add and use In Chapter 4The course is designed so that the data for exercises can go either in the root (or other) folder of a stand-alone PC, or in the file structure of a network. It would be best to put all of the folders in the same location on disk. The folder IGIS-Arc requires about 816 MB and IGIS-Arc_AUX takes up about 24 MB. The total disk storage requirement, when you add the Color_Figures folder and the other folders (which require minimal disk space), is about a gigabyte. Of course, each student with a book has access to the data on the DVD, so presumably a course could be run with little impact on any computers disk storage except for the data the student creates in running the exercises.The Student Companion website www.wiley.com/go/kennedygis is available at the Wiley Higher Education Site. There the student will find learning resources, including text versions of FastFactsFile_Checklists (the last exercise in each chapter, verbatim, which helps students complete their Fast Facts Files). Please encourage your students to (a) always open their Fast Facts File when starting an exercise, (b) make use of the Color Figures and (c) find and visit the Student Companion website.Again, please register on the publisher's website www.wiley.com/go/kennedygis and enjoy teaching with Introduction to Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS.