adapt this site suitability assignment for QGIS and for something in the Allentown PA area.

Simplify this assignment a bit

This (pretty old) take on Open Education is helpful in re-focusing the conversation around aspects of local control of ed-tech software and building parallels between scholarly and teaching autonomy and the ability to build, customize, and utilize open software.

help sheet for bookmarked activity. update for QGIS, etc.

revise this activity to use QGIS
revise this activity for the neighborhoods around Muhlenberg College's campus in Allentown PA

help sheet for bookmarked activity

Adapt this activity to use Google Sheets.

Adapt this activity to concentrate on population change around the Muhlenberg campus in Allentown (instead of Cambridge, MA).

One especially strong element of this assignment is to provide U.S. Census data in various file formats (.txt, dBase file, excel file). Some important learning goals for my GIS course is for students:

• gain understanding of successive data formats,
• an ability to transpose from old data formats,
• some sense of the dangers associated with negligent data management practices.

An uncomplicated XML vocabulary for authors of research articles, textbooks, and monographs.

The best of DocBook, LaTeX, and HTML.

Outputs: print, PDF, web, EPUB, Jupyter Notebooks, …

(Before June 2017, PreTeXt was called “MathBook XML”, so many of those references remain.)