GeographyAwareness
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GeographyAwareness, space (not spatial)
40th anniversary of the announcement of the space shuttle program
This great image of US President Nixon and NASA Administrator Dr. James Fletcher shared today by NASA marks the 40th anniversary – January 5, 1972 – of the announcement by […]
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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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GIS Lounge conducting a GIS Skills and Employment Survey
Are you currently employed in the field of GIS? Help contribute to GIS Lounge’s study about the state of GIS employment and the skills needed to succeed as a GIS […]
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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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Cartography, 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 […]
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avsp, Cool Stuff, GeographyAwareness
Discounts for your GAW and holiday gifts
Each year as the holidays approach (and yes I include GAW in that list of holidays) we try to reach out to a vendor who carries Geographic or cartographic items […]
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GAW2011 is here
Ladies and gents, we are firmly into Geography Awareness Week 2011 (#gaw2011) and events they are a-happenin’ from your local classrooms to the social media circuses. If you haven’t checked […]
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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 […]
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Less than a week to GIS Day
GIS Day is next Wednesday, November 16. If you are not hosting an event, that doesn’t mean that you can’t help spread the word. Oh contrare, you can use your […]
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Daniel Raven-Ellison on GAW2011 and the adventure in your community
National Geographic Education has done a great job of trying to prepare educators for the 2011 Geography Awareness Week and made a number of their presentations available online on their […]
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