 A little while ago I actually caught a fish with an artificial grasshopper, so much for matching wits with the wily trout, but you can't blame him, he was probably just hungry. If anybody needs their head examined, it's probably me for standing in a stream in December, but at least the sun's out. Hello, my name's Jim Sloan. I've been teaching in Penn State's online geospatial education program since 2003. Back in my graduate school days I spent a lot of time paleo reconstructing world maps. I wrote code for and did things by hand that people who use GIS software now take for granted. I finally started using GIS software in the early 90s when we wanted to make shaded relief backgrounds for thematic maps. It was a long after that that I started teaching people about geographic information science and how to get things done with GIS software, and I've been fortunate enough to have been able to do it ever since then. So welcome to the program, and I hope to have you in one of my classes.