Category: geography
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A growing global audience
This evening I took some time to review the ClustrMaps for my blog over the course of the past month (April 2008.) ClustrMaps is a wonderful website which provides code people can insert onto their blog or other website to track (by IP address) the general locations of people who are accessing and viewing content…
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Strong storms in the midwest tonight
As I’ve stayed up this evening writing a new blog post and working to coordinate the defense of my seven Travian villages (our alliance is currently at war with a stronger alliance) I’ve been watching a very strong line of storms make its way across our state: Since the lightning was getting pretty intense, I…
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Learners and teachers as tour guides
I am reading Rob Bell’s book “Velvet Elvis” along with about 50 other men in our church’s Friday morning men’s group, and came across the following passage recently which resonated with me as a teacher. Rob wrote: Tour guides are people who see depth and texture and connections where others don’t. That is why the…
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Ustream broadcast in an Oklahoma Thunderstorm
Well, this was some impromptu evening fun. I shared a live broadcast from our front porch this evening over Ustream.tv as a thunderstorm came in and provided a fairly dramatic light show. This 12 minute video is available as an archive on Ustream. Don’t expect great cinematography here– I did ratchet DOWN the video quality…
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Google Maps: Collaboration welcome!
Ever since I heard and watched David Jakes present on Google Maps as well as Google Earth at TechForum Southwest in Austin this past November, I’ve been itching for an excuse/reason to play more with Google Maps. Last week’s visit to Seattle for NCCE 2008 provided me with just the opportunity I was looking for!…
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Oklahoma Science PDI
These are my notes from a presentation on “Oklahoma Science PDI: Schools Responding to Challenges of the Future” at the 2008 OU K-20 Center’s 2008 MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma. My thoughts and comments are in all caps. I am recording this session and may post as a podcast, pending permission and time to post…
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Encourage hands-on science inquiry!
The National Geographic Hands-On Explorer Challenge 2008 offers a great way to encourage U.S. students to develop their love of science and learning, as well as their natural curiosity to discover new things about our world. To enter students must submit a 300 word essay telling “us what you discovered as a hands-on explorer in…
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International and domestic US travel / contact maps
I reviewed my Flickr profile page this evening and noticed I hadn’t updated my “Visited Countries” map since making the trek to Shanghai in September. I went ahead and added Japan as well, but (like Australia) I don’t really think a mere visit to the airport should qualify as a “visit.” create your own visited…
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Podcast202: 21st Century Cartography by David Jakes
This podcast features a recording of David Jakes’ excellent presentation about Google Maps and Google Earth at TechForum Southwest in Austin, Texas, on November 2, 2007. Every subject can be studied within a geographical context. Two freely available tools, Google Earth and Google Maps can be used by teachers and students to create rich learning…
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Creating geographic information connections with Google Maps
This afternoon and evening I spent about three hours with my 9 year old son, and about 4 hours on my own, exploring and creating with the new features of Google Maps. I was inspired to do so by David Jakes, who gave a WONDERFUL presentation on Friday at TechForum in Austin about both Google…