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The schemes of work described in Section 2.2.1 and case stud-
ies in Section 2.2.2 also encourage the use o "the equipment so
that geomatics fieldwork may be carried out in addition to the
basic lessons, e.g. for coastal erosion studies (Figures 5 and 6),
pupils can make their own observations. River sectioning and
GIS development (Figures 7 and 8) are further areas of geo-
graphic inquiry that have made use of the equipment available.
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2.2.4 Training courses
Whist equipment has been chosen on the basis of robustness
and ease of use, in many cases teachers require training in the
use of the equipment if they are to get the best results out of
fieldwork (and not embarrass themselves in front of the school
pupils!). In order to solve this problem, geomatics.org.uk has
run IN Serviee Training (INSET) courses for teachers across
the country. In excess of 250 teachers have been trained to use
the equipment. For school pupils, an annual summer school is
attended by approximately 30 school pupils. Other extra-
curricular school activities run by geomatics.org:uk include
Saturday morning sessions for *Gifted and Talented" pupils..
2.3 Promotional activities
2.3.4 School, colleges and the general public
In order to promote the campaign to school teachers and pu-
pils, articles have been published in journals and websites
such as Science Next Wave (Mills and Waddicor, 2003) and
Ordnance Survey Mapping News (Mills et al., 2002; Waddicor
et al., 2003), see Figure 9. Press releases have-attracted the at-
tention of the local press, e.g. The Dorset Echo and The Jour-
nal (Spencer, 2003), and other media such as the National Grid
for Learning (NGfL, 2002), EPSRC NOISE! (Noise, 2003) and
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In addition to articles in journals, geomatics.org.uk has made
numerous visits into schools across the UK, and actively pro-
moted the discipline at educational exhibitions and teacher's
conferences throughout the country. During the summer of
2002 this included a four week UK Roadshow for the BBC's
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Figure 10. geomatics.org.uk has attended exhibitions and
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