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Google Street View images

In the process of capturing the world under a lens, Google’s cameras have managed to take some of the most incredible,non-edited pictures the world’s ever seen? This amazing library of images from Google Street View are ready for the picking to use in the classroom.

Humour is a good and useful thing in the geography classroom

* Visit the following to view some great cartoons, many with a geography/society and culture relevance (sorry, some of the sites are copyright marked but still good for a geographical laugh)

http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/page/2/

http://education.nationalgeographic.com.au/education/cartoon/?ar_a=1

http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/g/geography.asp

http://www.thecomicstrips.com/subject/The-Geography-Comic-Strips.php

http://www.offthemark.com/cartoons/geography

http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/subject/The-Geography-Comics-and-Cartoons.php

Here is a presentation from AGTA Chair, Grant Kleeman to support the use of cartoons in the geography classroom