GeographyAwareness

November 12, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, Podcast, Show Notes

AVSP GAW’07 – Day 01

We begin our Geography Awareness Week topic of spatial media with a discussion with Myrna Yoo of Imaging Notes. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
November 11, 2007Columns, GeographyAwareness

World in Spatial Terms

While it is important to take a bit of time out each year to focus on Geography Awareness, there are 51 other weeks in the year where teachers must attempt […]
November 5, 2007general, GeographyAwareness

NBC goes Green

An interesting (and amusing) note that the NBC television network is promoting their Green Week where they are offering tips to go green in shows and in between. It is […]
October 30, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, GIS_Software

Book – “Geospatial Analysis”

I am not sure how I missed something like this, but Drs de Smith, Goodchild, and Longley, released a book entitled Geospatial Analysis – a comprehensive guide. Now in its […]
October 26, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, Navigation

The National Map Corps

This one definitely gets filed under the “I did not know that” category (a fairly substantial category as you might imagine). Apparently for a few years now the USGS has […]
October 12, 2007general, General, GeographyAwareness

Nobel Peace Prize for Climate Change

Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I think this is one of the first Nobel Peace Prizes awarded for an […]
September 29, 2007Education, general, GeographyAwareness

Guerrilla Geography

Over in the UK a new movement has popped up…Guerrilla Geography. So far there has only been one activity so far where they have taken Geography education to the streets […]
September 17, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography

Hispanic Heritage Month

Apparently the hispanic community doesn’t even warrant an actual month for Hispanic Heritage Month since it runs from Sept 15 to Oct 15. In recognition of our friends who hablan […]
September 12, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, GeographyBlogs

Vector1 Media: Sustainability and geospatial

As those of you who have listened to AVSP Episode 112 have already heard, Matt Ball and Jeff Thurston have started Vector1 Media a new magazine that will look at […]
September 9, 2007Events, general, GeographyAwareness

GIScience Podcast

I completely missed this…there is a podcast feed from the 2006 GIScience Conference that was held in Munster last October. There are nine presentations that cover an array of GISci […]