by Barbaree | Nov 30, 2012 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
First of all, a big thanks to our friend & colleague, Barbaree Duke for bringing Remind101 to our attention! It\’s a great tool for teachers to communicate with their students! Remind101 provides a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in...
by Barbaree | Nov 29, 2012 | Cougar's Corner, Our Blog
In preparation for flu season this year, the CC challenged web and app developers to come up with a clever app or online game to help raise awareness for flu prevention. You can view all the FLU app finalists here. Their first place winner was an addictive game called...
by Barbaree | Nov 28, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
A design company, Accurat, created this great interactive map to visually compare geo-referenced Twitter and Instagram hashtagged contributions related to Thanksgiving and Black Friday over the 2 days of November 22 (Thanksgiving) and 23 (Black Friday) 2012 over the...
by Barbaree | Nov 21, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
As you prepare for turkey day tomorrow – whether you\’re travelling to family, shopping, cooking or frantically cleaning for company (or several of the above), take a breather and explore where your Thanksgiving meal came from with a delectable,...
by Barbaree | Nov 14, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Day, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
To celebrate GIS Day, we want to highlight three things that make us happy: 1. We have launched a new section on our website – MAP PORTALS! Through these portals discover rich free resources of map data in earth sciences, agriculture, English and language arts...
by Barbaree | Nov 13, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog, Super Tuesdays 2012
Explore one of the cooler interactive graphics we\’ve shared in a while! Follow 60 years of voting history. This graph provides an amazing historical perspective on how states have shifted over past elections. Each wavy stripe represents a state. Scroll over...
by Barbaree | Nov 12, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Our thoughts and prayers are still with the East Coast as they face monumental reconstruction from devastating hurricane Sandy. These images compiled by ABC news show the scope of the destruction and can be used to illustrate the theme of change-over-time-and-space to...
by Barbaree | Nov 9, 2012 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
After a week of watching news and politics we looked for a \”patriotic app\” to share. What we found exceeded our expectations – patriotism for EVERYONE! We found an app with a comprehensive collection of 205 national anthems, maps, flags, facts and...
by Barbaree | Nov 8, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
With the holidays quickly approaching, we wanted to share a Thanksgiving lesson idea early enough for you to implement it in your classroom. The link to the lesson we\’re highlighting is for an elementary classroom – but use your imagination and think...
by Barbaree | Nov 7, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
We are friends with and big fans of Charlie Fitzpatrick from Esri. Today, we are sharing one of his great tips on how to create maps that can help students recognize and understand data through maps. Be sure to follow the link at the end of this excerpt to read his...
by Barbaree | Nov 6, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog, Super Tuesdays 2012
Election day is finally here. We exercised our right to vote (and we never exercise…it was exhausting! LOL) and we hope you voted too! Our resource today is POLITICO. Have your students visit that website tonight to follow real time maps with election results...
by Barbaree | Nov 5, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
So thankful for that extra hour of sleep this past weekend as daylight savings turned back our clocks. In honor of falling back we wanted to share an excerpt from an excellent article about the history of, as well as the pros and cons of daylight savings time. How...
by Barbaree | Nov 2, 2012 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
AroundMe quickly identifies your position and allows you to choose the nearest bank, gas station, hospital, hotel, movie theater, restaurant, supermarket, and taxi. It shows you a complete list of all the businesses in the category you have tapped on along with the...
by Barbaree | Nov 1, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
We are so lucky to have GIS education powerhouse Barbaree Duke on our team! If you aren\’t reading her already, you should! Her blog is GIS In Education, start following her today (seriously, right now). She wrote this article last month and we were charmed by...
by Barbaree | Oct 31, 2012 | Cougar's Corner, Our Blog
Happy Halloween! Today we wanted to share a lighter side of mapping with this excellent map exploring national spending on costumes from Esri. Be sure to visit the full article for more information – and be safe and have fun tonight, whether you\’re trick...
by Barbaree | Oct 30, 2012 | Apps We Love, Our Blog, Super Tuesdays 2012
As the election draws near, we want to share a trio of apps that can help you sort out the facts from the fiction. Politifact This mobile \”Truth-O-Meter\” fact-checks politicians and pundits. The app also groups trending issues and sorts its rulings by...
by Barbaree | Oct 29, 2012 | Cougar's Corner, Our Blog
Earlier this month we featured EarthPulse as a resource for your classroom. We liked their quiz so much, we decided to share the link specifically in our fun & games section, Cougar\’s Corner. So take the EarthPulse Quiz, test your knowledge and challenge...
by Barbaree | Oct 26, 2012 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
With Geo Photo Explorer, you can spend hours exploring the world through geo located photos. This application provides an easy way to explore, organize, manage photo galleries and share photos from Google Panoramio and Flickr. Recommended for all virtual tourists....
by Barbaree | Oct 25, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
This month marks NOAA\’s 30th anniversary of using GIS technology to save lives. We applaud their efforts and their vision. To commemorate their anniversary this month, we are sharing a segment of an article about their mission from Science Daily: \”Thirty...
by Barbaree | Oct 24, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
In science we have to keep an open mind and a sense of humor. When we ran across this article (and picture) we laughed out loud! Please visit Cosmic Log to read the article in full, watch videos and get your chuckle for the day!!! \”NASA\’s Curiosity rover...
