Category: geography
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Teaching with Google Earth by Cindy Lane
Teaching with Google Earth by Cindy Lane (MY NOTES FROM THIS SESSION AT METC 2007, 27 FEB 2007. I RECORDED THIS SESSION AND WILL POST LATER AS A PODCAST.) Definitely join the Google Earth community for education-specific resources KML = keyhole markup language When you load KML files into Google Earth, when you quit you…
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Visualizing census data, patterns and trends
Social Explorer is a powerful, web-based tool for displaying geographic U.S. census data that can be used for student research projects and presentations. A wealth of data is available in the free version, but even more is available if you or your institution subscribes. This page displays the census data by year that is available…
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Picturing Population and Global Citizenship
Worldmapper has published a useful and thought-provoking world map scaled to show relative population sizes: Consider the following quotation (included with this map) from Hania Zlotnik in 2005: Out of every 100 persons added to the population in the coming decade, 97 will live in developing countries. Helping students become more globally aware should be…
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Podcast110: Simple Podcasting on a Global Scale
This podcast is a recording Carol Anne McGuire’s presentation at the MacWorld 2007 K-12 Educators Market Symposium on January 10, 2007. Carol Anne is an Apple Distinguished Educator and the coordinator of the Rock Our World project, online at www.rockourworld.org. Rock Our World is an exciting International Project, involving countries on ALL SEVEN continents. Kids…
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3rd grade website about Africa
Several weeks ago when my 3rd grade son, Alexander and I presented at the regional technology conference in Plano, Texas, he won a free copy of WebBlender software from Tech4Learning. He has wanted to make his own website for quite a while, and several years ago he made a little progress using a WYSIWYG webpage…
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Pitcairn Islands ClustrMap Mystery
We have a mystery on our hands, and I’m hoping you can help me solve it. As you probably know if you’ve been reading my blog for long, I am wholly captivated by ClustrMaps and the global nature of web 2.0 conversations which Internet access enables and tools like ClustrMaps reveal. From time to time…
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Following the conversations
I learned this evening from Alan Levine’s “Mindless, Time Wasting, Ego Chasing Vain Pursuit” post about bloginfluence.net. Yes, using this tool is a bit like “Googling” your own name, but I also think in a more positive than vain sense this is a very powerful tool for following the connected conversations in the blogosphere. My…
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Geographic literacy
As a geographer and a geography lover, I was delighted to discover “My Wonderful World” today. Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, one of three organizations of which I am a lifetime member, the site is a fantastic, free resource for helping students of all ages develop better geographic literacy. According to the About page…
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Best free digital curriculum?
I have started a series of 10 workshops around the state of Oklahoma this week that focus on eRate as well as free sources of high quality digital curriculum. When it comes to free digital curriculum I don’t want to overwhelm people with too many choices (because certainly there are a huge number of options)…
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Classroom Blog World Tour
I introduced some students and teachers at Greenville School today in south-central Oklahoma to the classroom blogosphere using a customized Google Earth KML file I named, the “Classroom Blog World Tour.” (This requires Google Earth.) I let students take turns “driving the mouse” on my laptop, connected to a LCD projector, while they literally “flew”…