Summary and Final Tasks
This week was fairly easy but we did some important things. You are now familiar with:
- ANGEL: A New Global Environment for Learning
- Your instructor and your classmates
- Adult Learning Models
- Critical Thinking
- Writing Resources
The key things for this week were to master the ANGEL environment, get to know your instructor and classmates, and understand what I mean when I ask you to demonstrate critical thinking skills. This lesson is the foundation on which you can build your future success in the course.
Your deliverable this week was to post your introduction in the Lesson 00 discussion area. There are no points assigned this week, but we will all be very disappointed in anyone who does not post—we all want to know you.
Next week we are going to explore the basics of geography and how and why it applies to geospatial intelligence. In our next lesson we are going to consider:
- Kant's three ways of ordering knowledge.
- The definition of "Geography" and taxonomy of the word.
- Definitions of Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T) with examples of each, and we will discuss the relationship between the three.
- The relevance of Human Geography to the field of Geospatial Intelligence.
- How the definition of Geospatial Intelligence is socially contested and constructed.
- The spectrum of applications of Geospatial Intelligence.
You will also learn about online discussions as you participate in Online Discussion Forum 1.
Do not forget to post your introduction before going on to Lesson 1. Enjoy the rest of your week and I look forward to reading the introductory posts of my new partners in education.
Deliverable - Student Introductions
If you have not already done so, please return to the ANGEL window and select the Communicate tab
and then in the Discussion Forums section click on the discussion
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