Esri UC 2018 Day 4 Updates: Meet-Ups, Final Expo Minutes, and the Thursday Night Party
We wrapped up Day 3 with a few evening activities. Check out the Esri UC 2018 Day 3 Daily Updates.
And in case you missed any of our other updates, enjoy.
As we quickly approach the final few activities of the User Conference, we spent a few hours at the GeoNet Expo booth meeting with so many attendees and GeoNet members.
Michelle and Chris are helping Chris Di Dio. |
Candace Loya answering questions about GeoNet. |
Final GeoNet Meet-Up for UC 2018
We said farewell to our GeoNet members and non-members at the last GeoNet Meet-Up of the week.
Chris Catania is leading a chat with GeoNet members at the Thursday GeoNet meet-up. |
GeoNet members are finally putting a face to the names they see in the Community. |
Chatting with GeoNet Champion Adrian Welsh |
Chris Catania talks GeoNet with Andrew |
MOOC Meet-Up
Written by Adena Schutzberg, MOOC Program Manager
The MOOC team hosted its first MOOC Meet-Up at the Esri User Conference. We so enjoyed meeting our online students face to face!
In our MOOCs, we encourage students to help one another out and to learn together. We brought that spirit to the MeetUp and urged attendees to team up to build structures with our multicolored MOOC business cards. Among the entrees were a replica of Padres Stadium, a model of the recent Hawaii earthquakes, a woven tapestry and a campground. We awarded each member of the team behind our favorite creation, which used the cards in multiple ways, a copy of Ken Field’s new Cartography. Book.
The winning team rolled, bent and flexed MOOC business cards into this 3D structure.
I shared a few facts and figures about our MOOC students in the past four years:
- Our instructor taught 133, 000 students
- Students earned 27,000 Certificates of Completion
- We’ve offered 22 MOOCs
The highlight for attendees, I think, was meeting their instructors, and some of the “behind the scenes” MOOC team members. The five Cartography. Instructors, decked out in their “wizard” T-shirts said hello, as did Brendan O’Neill, instructor of Do-it-Yourself Geo Apps and Kevin Butler, instructor of Earth Imagery at Work. Linda Beale, who set the bar high with the Esri’s first MOOC, Going Places with Spatial Analysis, literally ran in from another meeting to greet students, and confirm her commitment to developing “season two” of that course. Every instructor gave the nod to longtime MOOC instructional designer Nancy Matheny, who shared that her favorite part of the role was interacting with the very motivated MOOC students in the course forums.
The five instructors of Cartography. came dressed in their cartography wizards T-shirts. Wesley Jones, far right, drew the cartoons which now grace buttons and stickers.
Our attendees provided some great ideas for future MOOCs that we’ll take into consideration. The MOOC team appreciates students coming out to spend time with us and their passion for learning and helping one another learn. With that good energy, we are ready to get back to work and update existing MOOCs and make new ones!
Esri MOOCs are free multi-week courses open to anyone. Esri provides all the needed software and licenses, and students can work at their own pace whenever they choose to complete the course content.
Register today to join us for one of our upcoming MOOCs! Starting September 5 (registration ends September 20)Starting October 31 (registration ends November 15)
Thursday Night Party
Attendees and Esri staff had some well-earned fun at the Thursday Night party. Many attendees, many families, cute ducklings, so much food, music, museums, and fun.
Hundreds of attendees were waiting in line for the party bus outside the convention center. The excitement was in the air. |
O' Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art' thou Romeo? |
Ducklings at the Esri UC Party |
Dragon Dancers in the China Town area |
Where is Lara Croft? |
The beautiful architecture was everywhere to behold. |
So many attendees. Recognize anyone? |
Live music and beach balls. |
Even the kids were dancing. |
Did you find Waldo at the Train Museum? We know where the Shark was hiding. |
And tomorrow we will have the closing session - https://community.esri.com/community/events/user-conference/blog/2018/07/13/esri-uc-2018-the-final-a.... Stay tuned for the final day.