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GeoDataWorkbook 3.0 Revised and completely updated educational materials from the original Ocean-Teacher Training (1.0) and Marine Data Literacy (2.0) programs. Emphasizes operational delivery of regional or global products from oceanography, meteorology, hydrology, remote sensing, and ecology; AND large-scale atlases and climatologes from the same. Major international sources are identified and linked in the relevant exercises; data formats are introduced as they occur. Step-by-step exercises show how to get and use free software to work with these products. Due to the large number of potential exercises (e.g. 140 in MDL 2.0), this updating will take over a year. You should be able to find most of the basic practices documented by early summer 2022. You can always refer to the MDL 2.0 site, but we already know that about half of them have fatal errors already, due to newer versions of the software and data site changes. Contact the author at m.brown.nsb@gmail.com for urgent help. |
Where These Exercises Have Been Taught in UNESCO Training (1994-2014)
Words of Wisdom (Apply Everywhere and Always)
FILENAMES: Use detail-rich, long filenames (up to 256 characters)
AVOID SEASON NAMES: Never use spring, summer, fall (or autumn) and winter, because they will cause confusion. Use season labels like JFM or JAS etc.
ASCII EDITORS:
Install and use an easy, free editor for all ASCII editing.
Never open any data file in Word, Wordperfect, or WordPad because they sometimes make undesirable change
You may edit CSV and TXT files in Notepad
ZIPPING/UNZIPPING: Use WinZip; if you don't have it, use 7zip (look it up in Google; it's free)
FTP: Use FileZilla (also free)
FILE/FOLDER MANAGEMENT:
View and manage all files and folders in Windows Explorer, never My Computer
Always view textual details for the folder contents, not just visual icons
Always view explicit details for the folder contents, never just icons
Find the control for FILE > VIEW > FILENAME EXTENSIONS and turn it ON (somewhere in every browser); you must SEE those extensions!
FILE SAVING: Whenever you use SAVE AS, or SAVE TARGET AS, check to see exactly what filename and filename extension will be used; watch out for added extensions or strange notes.
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