Image above: Incredibly mesmerizing animated GIF is what
the Internet looks like.
You are looking at, more or less,
a portrait of the Internet over an average 24 hours in 2012. Higher usage is in
yellows and reds; lower in greens and blues - as day and night passes across.Related links
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Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Humsteach blog
GeogSplace blog
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You think you have seen something 'speccie', what about ... ?
The sharing culture is alive and well in the world of geographers interested in the spatial and beyond. I continue to be amazed by the number of ‘things’ spatial which continue to turn up on the Internet on a daily basis. Every time I think I must have exhausted the treasure chest of maps, visualisations and geographically interesting ‘bits and pieces’, someone says, "have you seen ...". Sure enough it is a treasure that I have not seen and am rather excited to see. This sense of sharing (I will show you mine if ...) takes me back to the days of stamp collecting when we were young, when we swapped something treasured for something even better! It seems to be repeatedly happening to me as I pass on some great sites only to have other fantastic sites passed back in reciprocation. Like a chain letter, the people who harvest the site from me via my blogs and the GTASA website newsletter 'spam' (which I have harvested via colleagues, Google Groups, Twitter, Scoop.It and blogs), then pass them on to others and it continues until the community of geographers around the world have shared. Then it starts all over again tomorrow as another site is sent out into cyberspace to share. I thought in this posting I would put up some of the beaut sites that I have come across lately, that I know have had a life with others who have then used them in their teaching and passed them on to others. So here are some of my recent favourites.
Great visualisations
You are looking at, more or less,
a portrait of the Internet over an average 24 hours in 2012—higher usage in
yellows and reds; lower in greens and blues—created by an anonymous researcher for the
"Internet Census 2012" project.
Interactive
Visualization of the Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2050.
Prezi in an online alternative to
powerpoint for displaying notes and lecture materials (noted for it's ability
to see the whole picture, zoom in and it's rotating animations). Prezi is
free for educators and the presentations you made can be kept private or made public.
This Prezi outlines the 4 stages of the Demographic Transition Model, with
historical and spatial context
... and from the master of visualisations, Hans Rosling
Interesting
maps of ... for ... ?
Amazing tracking
site using spatial technologies.
analyze the
spatial and temporal patterns of the expansion of women's political
rights. This interactive map is excellent for seeing these few metrics,
but a more expanded dataset with maps concerning gender (in)equality in the
world and the status of women is WomanStats. http://womanstats.org/
The
WomanStats Project is the most comprehensive compilation of information on the
status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage
between the situation of women and the security of nation-states. We comb the
extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and
quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174
countries. Our Database expands daily, and access to it is free of charge
Most students
have Facebook accounts...what is geographic distribution of their networks?
What explains these patterns? Looking at personal life histories and
geographies would be an easy way to make spatial analysis intensely personal
and relevant. They are on social media; they just need to be prodded to
start using it for intellectual pursuits as well
* A surprising map of the countries that are most and least welcoming to foreigners Can we see any patterns? Is there a correlation between unfriendliness to foreigners and nationalism.
A map that show
Mother's Day celebration dates around the world. The Mother's Day is celebrated
on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in May, though also
celebrated in March in some countries, as a day to honour mothers and
motherhood.
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