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Images: Spatial technology everywhere when flying. Thank goodness!!
Related sites to the Spatialworlds project
Spatialworlds website
21st Century Geography Google Group
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
Email contact
manning@chariot.net.au
Where am I??
Adelaide, Australia: S: 34º 55' E: 138º 36'
No theme to this post, just some sites to play with!
1. The Geographers Craft website
Some excellent teaching materials on GIS and the Geographers Craft from the University of Colorado. Some good information and notes for students on GIS applications and general modern day geographical skills.
The site is called the Geographer Craft and is at:
The section of the site relevant to GIS is:
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/notes.html
2. The Mappery site is an inter-active map contribution site of real life maps. This site allows you to explore thousands of real life maps from around the world.
• tourism maps
• ski trail maps
• park maps
• college maps
• subway maps
• world maps
Also maps by country are avalialable and you can sign up for your own "map room" featuring maps and comments you add to the site.Great for a classroom activity and collecting map resources.
3. The future in spatial technologies in phones - GIS in action. Just imagine if students could develop maps from phones for various field trips etc.
4. Some amusing little Geography things from Youtube. Why not make it entertaining?
5. Have you registered on ‘My Wonderful World’ website yet to access great information and activities to promote spatial awareness?
6. Is this healthy? A young geography genius on Youtube!
7. Amazing collection of Google Earth images can be found at http://www.oddee.com/item_96849.aspx and http://weburbanist.com/2008/10/24/elemental-natural-phenomena-formations-disasters-photos-images-videos/
8. Not spatial but lets be a little green!
9. Some great GIS materials done by the Eastern Cape Dept of Land Affairs in South Africa. A ready made GIS course.
10. A website for geography teachers called GeoTube
11. A great site for video resources etc on geography from David Rayner in the UK.
Go to David’s sites at have a look:
http://www.georesources.co.uk/indexks3.htm
http://www.geointeractive.co.uk/
http://ks3geography.ning.com/profile/GeoDave
http://geographyjazz.blogspot.com/2009/04/david-rayner-has-been-busy-again-and.html
12. This is a great geography relevant site that does a “mash up” of google earth maps and flickr images.
13. Satellite tracking site It apparently updates every 30 seconds and shows the path of each satellite etc. The site provides an enormous amount of real time data on the satellite and its path.
14.The use of spatial technology in newsroom communications Reuters AlertNet site: Alerting humanitarians to emergencies. It includes an interactive mapping tool (fed from MS Virtual Earth) and viewable by conflicts, storms, food security, health etc.
15. It is worth looking at the exciting materials and buzz on the ‘Geography Teaching Today’ website in the UK. The sections on resources for Early years and Primary, Middle and Senior are particularly useful.
16. The TED Talks website is a great source for little snippets on ideas and technology. Really worth a look to see what is posted. In particular the talks on mapping New York pre-settlement, Al Gore on climate change, the 1918 Flu The orb, data visualisation , tools for a better world and global issues ....plus much more.
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