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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: geography

  • Location-aware DSN tools problematic for kids

    I learned last week about Meetro (“the social messenger”), which is a digital social networking service that sort of combines an instant messaging service with MySpace. The main thing that is different and powerful– and also a major source of concern, is how Meetro is location-aware. Here is the Meetro description sent to people you…

  • Google Earth Flight Sim

    How cool! As if zooming around in Google Earth wasn’t cool enough, now with the free Goggles website (a GoogleMaps flight simulator that is entirely web-based) anyone can fly around London, New York, Paris, Tokyo and Washington D.C. using a web browser. Fun! Via cogdog’s del.icio.us links.

  • UN CyberSchoolBus and Infonation

    I am a big advocate of helping students not only develop knowledge, motivations, and capacities related to local and national citizenship– but also global citizenship. Given this fact, it should not be surprising I was thrilled to discover the UN CyberSchoolBus website today. According to the site’s mission statement, the specific aims of the site…

  • Google Earth updates and 3D modeling

    According to Tuesday’s CNN article “Google upgrades mapping tools,” Google: said Monday that four times more land will be covered in the latest version of its free Google Earth software, enabling about one-third of the world’s population to obtain an aerial view of their homes and neighborhood. The software also is being offered in German,…

  • Awesome reflections on Web 2.0

    David Warlick posted his presentation about web 2.0 as a series of 4 podcasts episodes (look for #61) on his Connect Learning podcast recently, and this evening as I’ve been working on other things I listened to the first three segments. Fantastic stuff here, I highly commend it to you. A few things I liked…

  • GPS Advice?

    I have been wanting to get a GPS unit for a long time– mainly to use for camping and hiking, but at other times too. As a geography major in college and someone who LOVES maps, liked compass work in Scouts, completed and served as an instructor of USAF survival training, etc– I think GPS…

  • Trail maps to iPod

    I am a geographer and geography-lover, so I am naturally a big fan of Google Earth and quite envious of those with handheld GPS receivers– especially folks hiking in back-country wilderness areas. Well, it appears I don’t have to keep saving money for a new GPS unit to enjoy the benefits of technology in the…

  • Auto-Bio-Geography

    Platial: The People’s Atlas is a website enabling people to overlay geographic information of personal interest on top of Google Maps. These creations can become “auto-bio-geography creations,” a term I had not heard of before. According to the website: Platial enables anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of Places that matter to them.…

  • Meteorites and Human Development Index

    Two Google Earth discoveries tonight, both from GoogleEarth Hacks via the OgleEarth blog. According to WikiPedia: The UN Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. The index was developed in…

  • Podcast51: Discovering Google Earth

    During the week of the Florida Educational Technology Conference in March 2006, Paul Clark, Bob Goeman, and Mark Carnevalo spent several hours playing with Google Earth software and available KML files on the Internet. KML files contain information that links data and media from Internet websites to earth locations represented in the Google Earth program.…