Education

• June 17, 2008Education, general, Programming/Dev

  Ten Commandments of Egoless (insert what you do)

  TheSteve0 tweeted this great article about programming in a team environment, but the ten points that are made transcend programming and can easily fit any team activity from a class […]

• June 6, 2008Cool Stuff, Education, general

  Earth Balloon – Geography ed that’s not just full of hot air

  For all you K-12 teachers out there, and anyone who’s interested in a cool Geography educational tool, check out Earth Balloon. It’s a 20-foot high, hand-painted inflatable globe that can […]

• April 12, 2008Education, general, GeographyBlogs

  Plaid Avenger Plaidcast

  While trying to find folks to follow on Twitter I ran across the Plaid Avenger Plaidcast. The Plaid Avenger Plaidcast is a video series that highlights the thoughts of the […]

• April 11, 2008Education, general, Physical Geography, space (not spatial)

  New NASA Science Website

  NASA has just unveiled a new skin for it’s Science website. The site is serves as the public face for all the nifty scientific stuff done down at NASA central. […]

• March 18, 2008Education, general, General

  KidsGIS – open source GIS tools for kids

  KidsGIS is a cool project from a group of professionals and educators out in Oregon, who have been using MapGuide Open Source tools to create an open source geospatial portal […]

• March 11, 2008Education, general, GIS_Software

  Kardi Teknomo’s Tutorials – great intros to statistical and GIS topics

  Our reader Ed found another gem in Kardi Teknomo’s Tutorials Dr. Teknomo is a research fellow at Human Centered Mobility Technologies at Arsenal Research, Austria. He has an amazing research […]

• February 15, 2008Education, general

  Are Americans Anti-Intellectual?

  The New York Times Books section features an interesting discussion about a book entitled, The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby. The thrust of the book is that current […]

• February 14, 2008Education, general

  Great Backyard Bird Count

  Are you participating in the The Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend? Led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, with sponsorship from Wild Birds Unlimited citizen […]

• January 20, 2008Education, general, General, GeographyAwareness

  Library of Congress and Flickr team up to put photo collections online

  The Library of Congress is going Web 2.0 by making some of its photo collections available online at Flickr. This is a really cool project that not only allows users […]

• January 19, 2008Education, general, VirtualEnvironments

  Want to Make a NASA MMORPG?

  The BBC is reporting that NASA has put out a Request For Information for any groups or agencies who might want o create a NASA MMORPG. The idea is to […]