GIS Live 2005
"Open Spaces - Wild Places"

Sessions Previews

GIS and Afterschool Programs
Catherine Bukowy, NC Center for Afterschool Programs

Description:

Participate with NCCAP in mapping afterschool programs in your community to help build advocacy for equitable, high-quality afterschool programming for all. Learn how GIS provides a common analytical framework in which we can understand problems and formulate a response, improving afterschool programming for everyone in North Carolina.

Preparing for the Session: Activities for Parents and Educators to engage in:

(K) What do you KNOW about this already?

What are ways in which mapping the community in afterschool programs can help us better understand the place in which we live?

(W) What have you LEARNED?

How is GIS being used in afterschool programs?

(L) What else would you LIKE TO KNOW?

How can you become more invovled in these efforts?
How can you help?