Author: Barb

• December 31, 2011Education

  New Year Trivia and Tweets

  There are many sources for New Year’s interactive maps for 2012. The Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Education site has an interactive map and social studies quiz on “Celebrating New Year’s Around the World: […]

• December 28, 2011Hardware, VirtualWorlds

  Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

  It’s always fun to compare the modern marvels of yesterday to their technological equivalent today. I spent about an hour on Charles Shopsin’s blog  “Modern Mechanix: Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today” reading all of […]

• December 21, 2011Data, Education, Environmental, general

  Project Bird Feeder Watch

  It’s that time of year again in North America, Project Bird Feeder Watch for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Bird Studies Canada.  It is a great opportunity for an easy to […]

• December 12, 2011Gadgets

  Reasonably Priced “Vintage” Geography Gifts

  If you are looking for some nice looking gifts for the geographer in your life that are wonderfully unique, look no further than the Steam Punk Emporium.  What they call […]

• December 9, 2011Software

  Grapheur

  Grapheur is a new business intelligence and visualization tool that includes an easy to use geovisualization function. It has a free trial, but the software itself isn’t free. I was […]

• December 1, 2011Contest, Data, Education

  Kaggle

  Kaggle is a website company that holds predictive modeling competitions for prize money. It’s premise is that there is a lot of data out there that needs to be analyzed […]

• November 27, 2011Cartography, Education

  Is Geography realism on greeting cards important?

  A recent article in The Guardian, “Your Moons are Rubbish, Astronomer tells Christmas Card Artists“, by science Ian Sample was entertaining but also raised several serious scientific questions. Peter Barthel from […]

• November 18, 2011Cartography, GeographyAwareness

  The News and Geography Awareness

  Matthew Erickson, deputy graphics director at The New York Times, has a great post about  “When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps” or how location can be represented by a broad range of […]

• November 11, 2011Education, Environmental

  Zebra Stripe App

  A  short article in this month’s National Geographic magazine gives me a chance to tell a funny kid’s joke about zebras.  “There were two chickens standing at crosswalk. One says to […]

• October 28, 2011Environmental

  Tweets of a Different Kind

  I have subscribed to the wonderfully informative eNature website and email list for years because of the kid in me loves that it is a grown up Ranger Rick. They […]