Archive for June 14th, 2007





Mapping farms and teaching students

Jun 14th, 2007 | By Sue

Dover High School in Delaware Pennsylvania has a really cool program going that not only introduces students to GIS, but also provides a real mapping service to the local community. Agriculture teacher Ron Weaner and tech education teacher Charles Benton have put together a pilot project in conjunction with Adventures in Technology where students in [...]



BBC collaborating on new Photosynth collections

Jun 14th, 2007 | By Sue

In conjunction with their new series “How We Built Britain”, the BBC is collaborating with Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth team on a new set of collections called Your Britain in Pictures (Jesse tells me that this was mentioned briefly during the virtual globes session at ISDE5 last Friday) that will feature some of Britain’s most [...]



Measuring Fine Scale Behavior

Jun 14th, 2007 | By Sue

University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has done a lot of great work in understanding spatial behavior, and one of their current projects, CAPABLE (Children’s Activities, Perception and Behaviour in the Local Environment) focuses on children’s activities patterns across space and time, looking at things like patterns of travel between home and school [...]