Derek Wenmoth from Core, just blogged about this.
19.20.21 is a investigation into 19 cities, each with over 20 million people, in the 21st Century, hence the name. The projects purpose is to look at business and urban growth in these cities over a 5 year period and publish this information via a variety of channels [...]
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/index.html
Seeing is believing, well thats how the story goes anyway. However if your are a visual learner then seeing how something works is a key element to your learning. In geography and the geo-sciences this can be hard to do because of the scale and location. However using a computer to visualise or simulate processes [...]
In an earlier post I highlighted the excellent video produced by Media Storm on the Rape of a nation and the plight of the Democratic republic of Congo.
I have watched an number of the videos on this site and another called Bloodline has stunned me with its quality and relevance.
This is not a comfortable video [...]
http://www.terraclues.com
Here is another eternal Beta.
I found this link on WVSKPhillips Domain’s Blog and it links very nicely with another post from today – Place spotting – this is a clue based geography game that also use Google maps in the mash up.
You either use an existing game or create one, set up the clues and [...]
http://www.placespotting.com/solve.php
This is fun but annoying – you are presented with an image (google earth image) and given a few hints then told to find it. This is worthwhile looking at and it makes for an interesting exercise with our students. Get the students to create the puzzles and then send them to their classmates. Great [...]
