by Barbaree | Feb 16, 2011 | Conferences, Current Training, GIS Happenings, Our Blog, Past Training, Presentation & Conference Archives
Now in our 95th year, NCGE continues to both promote and celebrate geographic teaching and learning. Their activities include conducting and gathering research, producing journals and other geography publications, developing curricular resources at the K-12 and...
by Barbaree | Feb 9, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
We recently ran across this fascinating study on how our eyes read maps on the blog for EYE Magazine. It compares regular octolinearity to new all-curves map models and how our eyes read and decipher information along the lines of a map. An all-curves map smoothes...
by Barbaree | Feb 7, 2011 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Area governments are doing their best to help their regions dig out of this snow storm. Call it Snowmageddon, call it the Blizzard of 2011. Whatever you call it, it\’s a mess outside. SnomgeddonCleanUp.com (running in NYC and Boston) built websites as a simple...
by Barbaree | Feb 4, 2011 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
A big thanks to our friends at ESRI for putting this fascinating map together. Use this as a resource to discuss current events in Egypt with your students and give them a geographic context. This map pulls in social media related to the protests that have occurred in...
by Barbaree | Feb 3, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Cast your vote for who you want to win the Super Bowl on this fun, interactive map from ESRI!
by Barbaree | Jan 25, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Roger and Anita Palmer of GISetc were at the Australian Geographic Teacher Association (AGTA) in Adelaide during the Brisbane flooding. We were with many teachers from the Brisbane area, and certainly, most teachers who were at AGTA had friends and relatives who lived...
