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- Budhathoki, Nama (Fall 07). GIS Course.
- Budhathoki, N.R., Bruce, B. (Chip), Nedovic-Budic, Z. (2008): Reconceptualizing the role of the user of spatial data infrastructure. Special Issue on Volunteered Geographic Information, GeoJournal. Vol (72), Number 3-4. pp. 149-160.
- Cisler, Steve (2007). Open geography: New tools and new initiatives.
- Elwood, Sarah (2007 July). Grassroots groups as stakeholders in spatial data infrastructures: challenges and opportunities for local data development and sharing. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1 – 20. Investigates grassroots users’ geospatial information needs and activities in Chicago. Based on several years of ethnographic study, it reveals why supplier-driven information fails to meet information needs of grassroots community
- González, N., Moll, L., & Amanti, C. (2005). Funds of knowledge: Theorizing practices in households, communities, and classrooms. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Goodchild, Michael F. (2007). Citizens as the voluntary sensors: Spatial data infrastrcuture in the world of Web 2.0 . International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 2, 24-32.
- Konieczny, Piotr (2007). Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning. Vol 4, Number 1.
- McKnight, J. L., & Kretzmann, J. (1992). Mapping community capacity. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University: Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research.
- Moll, L., Amanti, C., Neff, D., & Gonzalez, N. (2001). Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms. Theory Into Practice, 31(2), 132-141.
- Moore, M. (1994). Community capacity assessment: A guide for developing an inventory of community-level assets and resources. Santa Fe, NM: New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department.
- Reardon, Kenneth M. (1998). Enhancing the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations in East St. Louis. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 17, pp. 323-333.
- Ridgley and Dillon (1921). Home Geography: A First Year in Geography. McKNIGHT & McKNIGHT, Normal, Illinois.
- Robinson, Jacquelyn P. (2003, September). Asset mapping: A tool for building capacity in communities. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences 95(3), 52-53.
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- The Community Toolbox: Identifying Community Assets and Resources
- An Asset-Based Approach to Community Building and Community Technology
- US Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Illuminate Regional Asset Mapping Roadmap
- Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) (2006, January). Teaching by doing: PPGIS and classroom-based service learning. Author.
- Example maps:
- Example forms:
- Douglass Area Community Organization. Individual capacity inventory.
- Worksheet
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