If you’re looking for software that supports student mapping and data collection, take a look at the blog from Professor Meg Stewart at Vassar College...

Meg is the PI for a 2004 HP Technology for Teaching grant received by Vassar. The project, Mobile Mapping Using Tablet PCs and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Field-based College Courses, is a great example of field data collection using GPS, GIS, and Tablet PCs. You can read more about their project(s) at http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=71791110627159.

Her blog posting about the software they’ve been using is located at http://gisatvassar.blogspot.com/2008/02/software-for-mobile-mapping-lab-tablets.html .

If you happen to be attending the Northeast Regional Computing Program Annual Conference next week, feel free to drop by her presentation: https://www.educause.edu/NC08/Program/13921?PRODUCT_CODE=NC08/SESS10

Thanks for sending me the weblinks, Meg!