The books include:
Practicing Geography (available early April)
Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and the Environment is a comprehensive new resource from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and Pearson, designed to prepare students for STEM careers in business, government, and non-profit organizations. Funded by the National Science Foundation, this project brings together members of the geography community to discuss workforce needs, expectations, and core competencies in professional geography, profiling the professional applications of and opportunities in geography today. Practicing Geographypresents dozens of geographers applying their knowledge, skills, and perspectives in communities, businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations, both domestically and internationally.
Aspiring Academics
Aspiring Academics is a set of essays designed to help graduate students and early career faculty get started in their careers in geography and related social and environmental sciences. Rather than viewing faculty work as a collection of unrelated tasks, Aspiring Academics stresses the interdependence of teaching, research, and service and the importance of achieving a healthy balance in professional and personal life. Drawing on several years of research, the chapters provide accessible, forward-looking advice on topics that often cause the most stress in the first years of a college or university appointment...
Teaching College Geography
Whether you are a graduate teaching assistant or the full instructor of a course, Teaching College Geography provides a starting point for becoming an effective geography teacher from the very first day of class.
- listing on AAG website EDGE program via AAG SmartBrief
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/22 at 09:18 AM |
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An e-mail from Point of Beginning (survyeing magazine) explains:
"NCEES is transitioning the FS and FE exams to computer-based testing (CBT)."
In English, and for non-survyeors it says:
The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying is moving from offering paper-based Fundamentals of Surveying (
FS, first exam heading toward LS) and
FE (fundamental knowlege of engineering, first step if getting a PE) to computer based ones.
Like other tests we use in GIS, these will be taken at Pearson Vue centers. Keep an eye of that Pearson name; the company is working in every corner of education.
- POB webinar on the change on May 8
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/22 at 08:41 AM |
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Salisbury University Geographic Information Systems students were recently dubbed “rock stars” by some Maryland legislators.
They created large, full-color maps of land use in each of Maryland’s new legislative districts for all 188 state senators and delegates.
The school last made such maps six years ago. They are available for downloading and printing. The locator map is from ArcGIS.com but the indivdual ones are PDFs.
- DelMarva Now
C|net rewrote a tutorial from LifeHacker that details how to make a "crowdsourced food review map" for just you and your friends. It uses Google's MyMap. I thought i might be valuable to some educators.
- C|net
The Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions (EIGS) partnered with Digital Quest, a geospatial education and certification organization. The result:
The State of Florida recently adopted the “S.P.A.C.E.” (Spatial Projects and Community Exchange) certification series created by Digital Quest and sponsored by EIGS. Florida included these new Geospatial certifications as part of its 2012-13 approved condensed “Comprehensive Industry Certification List” for the state’s Career and Professional Education (CAPE) Act.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/21 at 03:00 AM |
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Remembe that resolution that the fomer secreteraries of state and other geographic bigwigs signed last summer (press release)? Google has signed on, too.
- AAG via @theAAG
Santa Barbara based Maps.com, a leading provider of mapping products and services; donated over fifty maps to schools in Tanzania, Africa as part of an effort to improve the country’s education system.
This is a joint effort with the student-initiated non-profit organization One Heart Source (OHS), whose mission is to provide high quality education, specifically with regard to health issues such as HIV/AIDS, to rural areas in Tanzania.
- press release
WTS International, the association for women in transportation, has received a signed memorandum of understanding from the US Department of Transportation allowing their federal employees to participate in a mentorship program WTS has created for chapters across the country called "Transportation YOU." The MOU validates the call from all corners of the White House to get our nation's kids involved in STEM-related fields to serve them and the US as infrastructure needs continue to evolve.
- e-mail from WTS International sent with press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/19 at 03:00 AM |
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There a parking crisis on campus at Bowling Green State University in Ohio [corrected per comment]. There's limited parking at lots assigned for specific students. Parking services is trying to help by providing a map that shows how long it takes to walk to campus building from various lots.
- BGSU News
The UN Secretary-General has published a report on 'Open access, virtual science libraries, geospatial analysis and other complementary information and communications technology and science, technology, engineering and mathematics assets to address development issues, with particular attention to education.' Executive Summary:
This report provides an overview of how open access, virtual science libraries, and geographic information systems (GIS) could be harnessed to address development challenges, especially in the area of education. It contains recommendations for consideration by national governments and the international community, with a view to encouraging and expanding further development and adoption of these ICT assets.
- document (pdf) via +ScottMcQuaid
Justin Holman ranked (but did not map) what he considers the top graudate geography programs in the U.S. Go State.
- Geographical Perspectives Blog via @gletham
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/15 at 04:22 AM |
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