Cool Stuff

• September 11, 2015Cool Stuff

  Inspiring

  This video was linked from a video I posted for class…my little schtick about ‘chapter 3’ seemed very underwhelming compared to the energy these teachers show.

• January 4, 2015Cool Stuff

  Other podcasts…

  A couple of podcasts that I just came across on SoundCloud… A new podcast series is just around the corner entitled Placing Culture by Shaun Huston of Western Oregon University, […]

• October 25, 2014Cool Stuff

  Power Portfolio 2015 ads

  This is not a post about Hexagon Geospatial’s Power Portfolio 2015 (we hope to have an interview about this year’s update in the coming weeks). Instead it is a post […]

• January 31, 2014Cool Stuff

  A local view of the National Geography Bee

• September 12, 2013Cool Stuff, LBS

  Weather App That Will Navigate Around Weather

  Here’s a great use of LBS and I’m kinda surprised more navigation apps don’t have this built in – TurnCast will route you around weather events while you’re driving.  This can […]

• July 17, 2013Cool Stuff

  Awesome student projects

  Students do some great projects. This one uses Windows Phone to do a little Geospatial Augmented Reality for a 4th year project. Awesome! With a little nod to Sue’s Windows […]

• June 9, 2013Cool Stuff, Human Geography, Travel

  Scaling Up for Tourism

  It isn’t often in geography that you are able to get a 1:1 ratio on anything but a post this week by Luke Y. Thompson about the classic table top game […]

• May 5, 2013Cool Stuff, Education, Physical Geography, WebMapping

  Build Your Own Cicada Sensor

  NPR had a  March story on “The Cicadas are Coming! Crowdsourcing An Underground Movement”  about the public’s involvement in predicting cicada emergence, and the time is now. If you live on […]

• March 15, 2013Cool Stuff

  Rendered maps can still be awesome

  In a time when we have become jaded by something as awe inspiring as the time, technology, and $$$ behind creating 3D city models, it is nice to see something […]

• March 11, 2013Cool Stuff

  Check out MinuteEarth

  The folks who brought us the awesome web video series MinutePhysics have released the first episode of MinuteEarth. I am super excited about the potential for the series based on […]