Education
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Cartography, Education, general
Last year for the Hallmark Geography Teacher Barbie Ornament
I was told by my local Hallmark Store that this is the last year that Hallmark will be making the Barbie series of ornaments including the Geography Teacher Barbie Ornament. […]
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Cool Stuff, Education, Social Networking
Geospatial Games and Crowd Sourcing a Catalog
It’s never too early to get kids interested in geospatial technologies and geography. I was searching for a fun gift for a young kid and ran across the Daily Grommet, […]
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Geographic Travels Geo-Literacy Outreach Awards
Back in the summer we highlighted the Geographic Travels Geo-Literacy Outreach Awards in the podcast as a Tip of the Week, but now as the October 1st deadline approaches, I […]
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World Water Monitoring Challenge
This is a great education and outreach opportunity to help inform people about water quality issues. It is an extension of the UN’s World Water Day (March 22) which focuses […]
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Education, GeographyAwareness, space (not spatial)
Today’s College Freshman and the Geospatial World
Beloit College has released their 2012 list of things that new college freshman have known their whole lives, besides making some of us feel very old, it gives a good overview […]
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The United Shapes
From the most excellent as always XKCD… and you can even get this one as a poster! Click the image to make it larger so you can see the detail.
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Geospatial Dolls
The Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper has an interesting article asking, “Do these dolls perpetuate Canadian stereotypes?” It raises the question of Maplelea Girls, which are a Canadian version of American […]
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Cool Stuff, Education, Software, VirtualWorlds
Sim City 5 – Virtual cities like you’ve never seen them before
When I saw the E3 trailer for the next installment of Sim City, due in February 2013, my first thought was – this would be great for an Urban Geography […]
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Several Scales of the Universe
You have probably seen this everywhere by now. Cary Huang and his brother Michael Huang have an updated Scales of the Universe 2 which puts the scales of a surprising many […]
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Education, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Political Geography, VirtualWorlds
Spatial role-playing and virtual immersion
It is interesting to find that there are many types of spatial immersion projects going on this summer. They provide a good contrast of how creative people can be with […]
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