Kevin Helmer, who I met this past April during a Storychasers “Celebrate Texas Voices” workshop in Lubbock, Texas, tweeted me the following 3 photos tonight of the dust storm today (Monday, October 17, 2011) in Lubbock.
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Google SketchUp Workshop (Sept 2011)
These are my notes from the Google SketchUp workshop led by Allyson McDuffie at the September 27, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Allyson’s bio on our conference presenter’s page is: Allyson McDuffie manages the SketchUp for Education Program at Google, which has taken her to
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This is a big map! (Giant Traveling Maps from National Geographic)
In Lewiston, Maine, with one of the Giant Traveling Maps from National Geographic! I took this photo with Pro HDR for the iPhone! Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous
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The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester
These are my notes from Toby Lester’s presentation on the Waldseemüller map which gave America its name and his book, “The Fourth Part of the World” at the September 27, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I blogged this session on a Google Chromebook. (Samsung model) Toby’s conference bio is:
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Giant Traveling Maps project from National Geographic
These are my notes from Dan Beaupré’s presentation on the Giant Traveling Maps project from National Geographic at the September 27, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Dan’s conference bio is: Dan Beaupré is Director of Education Partnerships for National Geographic Live, the live events division of the National Geographic
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A Google Geo-Teacher Learning Day Story: In Tweets
Thanks to a suggestion from Brian Wasson, I used Storify this evening to compile a “story” of our shared learning today in Lewiston, Maine, at day 1 of the Google Geo-Teacher Institute. Using our event Twitter hashtag #gti2011, I ordered (more or less) most of the tweets shared by participants throughout the course of the
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Google Earth and Google Maps GTI Workshop (Sep 2011)
These are my notes from John Bailey‘s workshop on Google Earth and Google Maps at the September 26, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. John wasn’t our only presenter, we also learned with/from others… MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. John Bailey’s Google Earth resources (not all recently updated) – http://snap.uaf.edu/earth/ John Bailey is
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Google Fusion Tables: Geo-spatially connecting database data
These are my notes from Sean Maday‘s presentation on Google Fusion Tables at the September 26, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Sean Maday is a geospatial engineer at Google. He served as an Air Force intelligence officer from 2005 to 2010, and formerly worked for a research
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Visualizing Data in Google Earth
These are my notes from Margaret Shaw Chernosky’s presentation, “Visualizing Data in Google Earth” at the September 26, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MotionX-GPS app for iPhone: creates Google Earth KML/KMZ file with your speed/location as you travel Bring live hurricane and tropical storm data into your classroom via KML/KMZ files: www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/ Bring
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Great Reasons Geography ROCKS!
The three minute video, “Geography & Google Earth” includes interviews with “an Ocean Explorer, Global Rower and Adventurer” explaining why they love geography and why GEOGRAPHY MATTERS. Check it out and share it with your students! The Google Earth YouTube channel is one of the suggested resources for the Google Geo Teachers Institute which I’ll
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Visualizing Tornados in Oklahoma City with Google Earth
This afternoon in Missoula, Montana, I’ve enjoyed taking a Google Earth workshop with Jeff Crews. (This is Jeff’s intro Google Preso for our workshop, I’ll post more notes from his session soon.) Jeff showed us all kinds of layers and KML/KMZ files which can be viewed in Google Earth, including this layer of historical tornado
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iPhone Videography from Glacier National Park
The Internet connection at our hotel in Missoula tonight is faster than the ones we’ve had in past nights, so I’m finally about to upload and share some videos from Glacier National Park this weekend. Tomorrow the 14th Annual August Institute, “Technology Runs Through It” starts here at the University of Montana. Follow conference conversations
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More Highlights from Glacier National Park
Yesterday was another spectacular day for my Dad and I as we continued to explore Glacier National Park in Montana. Since our hotel last night in Kalispell had a much faster Internet connection, I was able to upload all our photos from day 1 and day 2 of our GNP explorations to Flickr and organize
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Demonizing Oklahoma Public School Teachers While Praising Them?
It’s National Teacher Appreciation week. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s “Open Letter to America’s Teachers” includes not only praise for our nation’s educators, but the first hint I’ve read to date that he recognizes (and maybe even wants to address) some of the fundamental flaws in NCLB and our overall, dominant paradigm of high
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Tips for adding images to Custom Google Maps #gct
I received an email this evening from a participant in my half-day workshop, “GeoApps for Learning: Google Maps and Google Earth,” which I presented in early March at the Heartland eLearning Conference. He is running into trouble getting his students to add images to their shared, custom Google Map. These are a few tips I
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Descending into the clouds at sunset (video)
On March 9th, I posted some photos of an amazing sunset over a beautiful cloud deck over Memphis, Tennessee, in the post, “Sunset over a sea of clouds.” Today I shared (on Flickr) a 44 second video of our plane descending just below the cloud layer from that same evening. It’s easy, as a regular
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Presentation Links from the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference #heartlandconf11
Today was the second day of the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. These are links to the resources I shared in my two pre-conference workshops, opening plenary session, and breakout session. Geo-Apps: Geographic Curriculum Connections (Google Maps and Google Earth) Creativity in eLearning View more presentations from Wesley
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Photo Geotagging Poses Privacy Risks, But Is NOT a Reason for Panic
The 4 minute video segment, “Smartphone pictures pose privacy risks” by NBC news in November 2010 highlights the risks posed by photo geotagging and social networking sites. Unfortunately, like some other mainstream media press reports on social media, the implications of the segment are irresponsibly portrayed in an extreme, out-of-balance matter. The reporters imply posting
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Civil War Augmented Reality Project Becomes HistoriQuest
I love social studies, history, geography and the intersections of these content areas with technology. I read an email from Jeff Mummert on February 1st with interest, in which he explained how The Civil War Augmented Reality Project has evolved to become an LLC: HistoriQuest. Jeff explained in the email how HistoriQuest aims to specifically
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24-25 February 2011: Google Tools Workshops in Claremore, Oklahoma (Tulsa area)
I’m pleased to announce I’ll be repeating the two-day “Google Tools” BYOL (bring your own laptop) workshops I presented in December in Oklahoma City for educators in the Tulsa area on Thursday, February 24 and Friday, February 25th in Claremore, Oklahoma. You can attend either face-to-face or virtually. The Claremore campus of Northeast Technology Center
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