[Alabama]Gov. Robert Bentley has appointed Terry Winemiller, an associate professor of anthropology and geography at Auburn University at Montgomery, to the Alabama Geographic Information Advisory Committee. Winemiller is the only higher education representative on the board.
- Montgomery Advertiser
Google will host two Google Geo Teachers Institutes in Europe this summer: one in Dublin, Ireland, and another in London, England. The two-day events will be taking place in June at Google offices.
- LatLong Blog
Here's a free to read and use (via CC-BY-SA) World Regional Geography e-textbook: World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization by Royal Berglee. Extra materials (quizzes, PowerPoints, etc.) have a fee.
- Flatworld Knowledge via World History Teachers Blog
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/23 at 03:00 AM |
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Among the findings of a Heathrow study (the airport commissioned the study, it did not take place at the airport) of 1,000 children between the ages of six and 10
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75% have been abroad
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41% did not know that the UK is in Europe
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24% don't know what an atlas is
Don't worry; Heathrow will fix it. The airport has placed globes in the terminals and will give out maps to young travellers just in time for the spring holidays.
Here are the details of the study from the press release:
(1) Heathrow used the independent online research company ResearchBods who surveyed 1,000 British children aged between six and ten from a nationally representative sample under parental supervision, between 02 and 07 February 2012. Children were asked to identify the location of countries by selecting a grid overlaid onto a world map. Its researches are members of the MRS, PRCA, BPC and Esomar, and abide by their guidelines. Further information is available at
http://www.researchbods.com.
- Press Association
- Airport World
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/02 at 04:35 AM |
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Harrisburg University student Steve Cline is using a balloon to capture imagery of a local island. The big issue in using these kits: helium shortage. Maybe it's time for kites!
- Penn Live
A new Kindle book (the authors refer to it as a manual) titled Gaining Competency With GIS: How-to Manual for ArcGIS Desktop Version 10 [Kindle Edition] offers help in gaining competency with ArcGIS. It references the ArcGIS 10 docs and I gather provides step by step instructions for tools and extensions. It claims to be based on the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) but refers to the that document as "Geotechnical Competency Model" throughout. I wonder if that editing error is in part related to an English class cited in the acknowledgements.
via URISA Digest
Students with the Paragould High School EAST Lab Program [AR] are using their computer knowledge to help Paragould Police monitor sex offenders living in the city limits.
"They are updating our sex offender zoning map," said Captain Greg Trout with PPD.
- KAIT
The University of Redlands has received a $75,000 grant from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to develop a Spatial Decision Support (SDS) system that calculates and maps the potential impacts of energy projects on wildlife.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/30 at 04:55 AM |
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Jack Dangermond will speak at one of his alma maters, the University of Minnesota on April 10.
- UMN News
Red Orbit seems to starting a series of lessons on weather. The first in on how mountains impact weather. The first lesson covers the mountains of the U.S. and their impact on climate and weather. Sadly, those two terms are not defined.
- Red Orbit
Focused on the best of America, Rand McNally has launched a short essay contest to discover what places across the country inspire young people. Students who enter the contest have the opportunity to win a $10,000 college scholarship and earn a trip to Washington, D.C.
The contest is open to 7th-12th grade students; there are prizes for teachers, too.
- press release
The University of Alabama in Huntsville is starting a master's degree program in the Earth System Science Department in the College of Science, the school has announced.
The first enrollments will be in August. The program will train master's level students in research applications at the decision-making level. The goal is understanding both Earth system processes but the tools to explore them including GIS, data analysis and remote sensing.
- Al.com
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/28 at 03:53 AM |
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This makes perfect sense to me. Say you want to capture images (or I guess any sort of sensed data about a place) but for whatever reason, poeple just don't go there. What if you could "guide them there" with the lure of more points or prizes or the like? It's my understanding that Waze already does that as it tries to complete its maps of road networks in the United States. And, a new mobile phone based running game tries to entice you to run faster (from the Zombies!).
A paper from Northwestern Univeristy suggests that the mechanics work just as well for having individuals on foot take and share phots at places of interest. If they need to shoot the ghost, and it happens to at the location where data is needed, the player will oblige. The researchers make it clear that players are told exactly how the data they capture will be used and how/if their personal information will be attached. Thus, this is not really "coerced geographic information."
- VentureBeat
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/26 at 03:00 AM |
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