Category: geography
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21st Century Cartographers by David Jakes
These are my notes from Dave’s afternoon presentation at TechForum07 on Google Maps and Google Earth. David is THE MAN. I first heard him in November 2005 at Techforum when he presented on digital storytelling. David’s main site: www.jakesonline.org David’s resource website for this session specifically: http://newtools.pbwiki.com/cartography – does the technology tool support a fundamental…
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Shanghai Cricket Market VoiceThread
I created and published a short VoiceThread this evening I titled “Shanghai Cricket Market.” Apparently crickets have both a lucky/superstitious value for many Chinese people living in Shanghai, as well as a “sporting” value for gambling. We learned a lot more about crickets and saw all different sizes in this Shanghai Cricket Market when my…
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Update on Typhoon Wipha
It’s 5 am local time in Shanghai, the city is overcast but not rainy yet. Yesterday we had intermittent rain all day, with periods of VERY heavy downpours which seemed to suggest “we were in for it” as far as tropical storms go. Our flight for Tokyo and then Detroit, Northwest 26, is scheduled to…
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A sobering experience
Today as I drove home from Goodland, Kansas, back to Edmond, Oklahoma, I took a different route. Rather than take I-70 across Kansas to I-135 and I-35, at Hays I cut south on highway 183 so I could go through Greensburg, Kansas. As you may recall, on May 4th, a devastating category 5 tornado struck…
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The iPhone cometh and inspires inquiry
It has been interesting to track the delivery path of my iPhone the last few days, which is set for delivery on Tuesday of this coming week. When I told my 9 year old it was shipping from Shenzhen, China, his first question was, “Why is the iPhone made in China?” Rather than tell him…
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Humanizing discussions about immigration and borders
I have been thinking about issues relating to immigration, the politics of borders and walls, the importance of international relationships and friendships, and the responsibility we all have to tangibly promote the causes of understanding and cooperation in our own contexts and spheres of influence. Several events have influenced my thinking lately and precipitated new…
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Greensburg (Kansas) Tornado
It is sobering to see aerial photographs of the damage a EF-5 tornado did along with 205 mph winds in about 20 minutes last week. The full path of this tornado (which was on the ground far longer than 20 minutes) was reportedly almost 2 miles wide and 22 miles long. Tragically, as of this…
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Podcast 149V: Reflections on Global Collaboration from Lake Michigan
This video podcast was recorded from the eastern shore of Lake Michigan on April 20, 2007, following the Connecting and Collaborating Conference sponsored by Ottawa Intermediate Schools in Holland, Michigan. In this podcast I reflect on the nature of global collaboration, metaphors of waterways to digital highways, and the importance of leadership in identifying needs…
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Countries I’ve visited map
I learned how to make the following “countries I’ve visited” map thanks to Damian Currier’s Flickr profile. create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands Very cool! This is free, and the website gives you HTML code to embed in any website. Tools like this can offer lots of possible geographic connection uses…