How to Use GeoPads

The following topics are essential considerations for teaching with GeoPads. This page can be used as a guide to designing and developing GeoPad-enabled activities and for preparing students and GeoPads for those activities, including information on what students should know and be able to do with a GeoPad based on an activity's desired learning goals and outcomes.

• Instructor Pre-Requisites and Preparation
• Student Pre-Requisites and Preparation
• Selecting Hardware and Software
• GPS Hardware
• Form Factor
• GeoPad Software
• Data
• Data Resources
• Topographic Data Resources
• Remote Sensing Data
• Thematic Data Resources
• Data Preparation
• Georeferencing
• Logistics (Guidelines for how to run a class day-to-day with GeoPads, Safety)

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