VFIC Workshop for Faculty in the Sciences, August 2-4

...The workshop will explore effective uses of multimedia applications in teaching, and web-based teaching strategies and techniques...
I'm responsible for two parts of this: a Tuesday morning session on "Information: reliability, validity, responsibility, and copyright" (which actually turned out to be mostly about problems of access) , and another session, on GIS, for which I've prepared a suite of maps of US agriculture.

Here's a sketch of what I attempted in the GIS session.