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  • Using ARIS to Create Interactive, Multimedia Enhanced Field Trips by Wes Molyneaux

    These are my notes from Wes Molyneaux‘s breakout session, “Using ARIS to Create Interactive, Multimedia Enhanced Field Trips” at the 2012 Mobile Learning Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 11, 2012. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference session description was: ARIS is a powerful tool for making location based games;…

  • Dust Bowl Nightmare in Lubbock

    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.

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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:…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…