AVSP GAW’07 – Day 05
Nov 16th, 2007 | By JesseClosing out our GAW spatial media conversations, we speak with Jeff Thurston of Vector1Media. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
Archive for November 2007
Nokia To Expand Pedestrian Maps
Nov 15th, 2007 | By FrankNokia is taking an interesting twist with their acquisition of Navteq – they want to focus on pedestrians. At a time when people are working hand over fist to get money into in-car navigation systems, Nokia apparently sees a hole in the market. Clearly Nokia has a delivery mechanism at hand for this as well. [...]
Pictures of Earth from Rosetta
Nov 15th, 2007 | By FrankThe European Space Agency’s comet satellite completed it’s second swing around Earth on the 13th of this month. The swing is necessary to gain speed for it’s deep space mission. Along the way, the satellite pointed it’s cameras at the Earth to capture a few snapshots. Most of them center on Antarctica.
Human Systems
Nov 15th, 2007 | By JesseThe fourth day of our discussion on Geography Standards for education brings to the core of what many of us focus on, the Human Systems. Since this element covers 5 standards we zip right through them, but don’t get us wrong, these are truly core to Geography education in the K-12 classroom, especially the Social [...]
Give One Laptop Per Child/Get One
Nov 15th, 2007 | By JesseThere are only a few days left in a great promotion over at the One Laptop Per Child project where for $399 you donate a laptop to a child overseas AND get one for yourself (to keep or give away…your choice). An added bonus is that T-Mobile is offering one year of wireless access on [...]
AVSP GAW’07 – Day 04
Nov 15th, 2007 | By JesseWe continue our spatial media focus with a conversation with Matt Ball of Vector1 Media. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
Happy GIS Day 2007!
Nov 14th, 2007 | By SueWe’re halfway through Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day 2007 is almost over. We hope you enjoy our annual Special Episode with Rick Lawson of ESRI, and that many of you have participated in events of your own. Our own Geography Dept got into the spirit by hosting a local high school group, and the [...]
OQO-less in Chicago….
Nov 14th, 2007 | By JesseSo, Jesse has been shouldering most of the blogging while I put my nose to the grindstone to get a working demo of our research project read for a conference session on Saturday, but I should be back in the game once we get back. While we were sitting in the hotel relaxing after a [...]
AVSP GAW’07 – Day 03
Nov 14th, 2007 | By JesseToday we are joined by Rick Lawson of ESRI for our annual GISDay episode. We cover a array of topics as we look back over the last year. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
AAG and No Child Left Behind
Nov 14th, 2007 | By JesseToday is a travel day so Day 4 of the Geography standards will be Thursday, but I did want to point out the efforts of various organizations such as the AAG who are calling on their membership and others to support recognition of Geography as No Child Left Behind is before congress for reauthorization. To [...]
