Education
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Education, Environmental, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography
Climate Models Ignored by Media
Ars Technica is reporting an interesting article for science, I think. Researchers at George Mason University have looked at climate reporting in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The […]
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A little recognition for the GeoBee
If you have watched the GeoBee then you probably feel as though you need to spend more time with your globe and atlas. It was great to see President Obama […]
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Cartography, Contest, Education
Dude, Where’s Your Map? Map Contests
ESRI recently sent out reminders about submitting static paper or interactive maps for the 2012 ESRI UC Map competition. This year they have added a User Software Applications contest for […]
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Cartography, Education, ESRIUC, Human Geography, VirtualWorlds
Zombies and Geospatial Analysis
If you have met me, you know that I would love to teach a geography class using the book World War Z by Max Brooks, a journalist who uses a zombie […]
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GIS Summer Camps for Students
Summer time is a great time for students of all ages to learn about GIS and geospatial technologies because it is a very hands-on technology. There are often GIS summer […]
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King’s College [geography] quiz
In December, the Guardian UK website posted the questions for the notoriously difficult King William’s College quiz or General Knowledge Paper (GKP) given to students (and parents) at King William’s […]
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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: […]
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Data, 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 […]
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Education, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Political Geography
US World Regional Geography class gets a chance to Skype with Burmese activist Suu Kyi
Professor John Boyer’s World Regions class at Virginia Tech got an amazing opportunity yesterday evening to interview Nobel laureate Aung Sang Suu Kyi, who is known the world over for […]
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