by Barbaree | Oct 26, 2011 | Conferences, Past Training, Presentation & Conference Archives
GeoTech 2012: March 1-3 GeoTech allows teachers to explore the most cutting edge technologies available in education today. Industry and classroom leaders will offer hands on workshops on using the latest tools in education to enhance curriculum and stimulate the...
by Barbaree | Oct 26, 2011 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Last month the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado in Boulder showed that the summertime sea...
by Barbaree | Oct 24, 2011 | Apps We Love, Free Resources, Our Blog
75,000+ how-to articles from wikiHow, the wiki how-to manual. Plus an emergency survival kit stored for offline use. Bonus feature: The application includes the ‘wikiHow Survival Kit,’ a collection of articles to get you through life\’s most difficult...
by Barbaree | Oct 19, 2011 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth this month, produced with detailed measurements from NASA\’s Terra spacecraft. The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from...
by Barbaree | Oct 17, 2011 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
The basic version of SkySafari 3 shows you 120,000 stars, plus 220 of the best-known star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the sky. It displays the Solar System\’s major planets and moons using NASA spacecraft imagery, and includes the best-known asteroids and...