On Friday, The ITSRG office was a stop on the Supporting Young Women In Geography Scavenger Hunt on Temple's campus organized by GUS graduate students Melody Grewell and Laurie Pickard.
Fourteen seventh and eight grade girls from Hunter School did a full day's worth of activities in collaboration with Penn State's chapter of SWIG (Supporting Women in Geography), including activities related to human and physical geography, geography basics, and a scavenger hunt emphasizing basic map reading. Originally posted 4/29/08.
Caroline Guigar
Temple University
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Last Thursday the ITSRG staff had the pleasure of attending a reception with Sen. Tartaglione at Sheppard Elementary School. Senator Tartaglione will join the students, families and staff at Sheppard Elementary School to celebrate a new grant that will enable families to gain computer and Internet access. ITSRG hosts a panel session at the AAG meeting in Boston on the intersection of informal science education and geography - Lessons learned from the BITS Program Wednesday, from 10:10 AM - 11:50 AM Mel Grewell, an M. A. Candidate in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies and Graduate Research Fellow of ITSRG is interested in youth perceptions of community. Her paper examines inner-city adolescents' perceptions of community and other geographic concepts, such as maps and place. Her study was conducted in North Philadelphia drawing on perspectives of students involved in the BITS Program. She has noticed that there are many interesting connections between what participants drew on their sketch maps of their communities and how they chose to photograph their communities. For example, most participants portrayed their homes on the community maps the created and also through photography. But, some of the participants' drawings tended to focus on the area immediately around their homes, whereas their photographs had a broader geographic range showing where the participants spend their time. Lorena Munoz examines the way in which visual methodologies, such as photo-documentation and photo-elicitation, are used to analyze and interpret the cultural landscapes in which Latino street vendors exercise their daily informal economic practices in Los Angeles. Photo-elicitation is a method that serves as a way of flexing power relations between the researcher who is photo-documenting the landscape and the subject that is being photo-documented. In analyzing the documented landscape, the vendors were shown the photographs and asked to describe emotive feelings attached to the landscape and what their perceptions and descriptions (such as space and place) are of the photo-documented site. Graduate Fellow Langston Clement will present Access to Admissions, a short film that visualizes enabled spaces from the perspectives of high school students in North Philadelphia. ITSRG Graduate Fellow Jeff Caroll will present on the policy and place implications of cyber safety in the conduction of a youth centered information technology program today at the AAG meeting in Boston. ITSRG's Executive Director Dr. Masucci will present the lessons learned from running a summer intensive and after-school program for Philadelphia area high school students called BITS, funded by the National Science Foundation. ITSRG Staff and fellows will be presenting at a paper session today at the AAG annual meeting in Boston. You can catch their paper session entitled "Methods for visualizing intersecting perspectives in urban spaces and places." The session is scheduled at 4:20 PM - 6:00 PM. |
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