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Rising seas imperil the delicate web of cables and power stations that control the internet.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
The dangers of sea level rise and fibreoptic cable networks.
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Microsoft has launched an app which can help map the world for blind and visually impaired people, giving directions, describing the local area and guiding them from place to place.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Mapping for those without visual ability, is importance and part of future technology.
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If you like board games and you like maps, you've almost certainly played and have likely also played such classics as and before. While these are all great games, they don't even begin to scratch the surface of what's out there. There's a whole world of map based strategy board game
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what to get to bright, bright kid? I loved "Terra Mystica" !
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Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa claims to have tackled a centuries-old problem - how to draw an oblate spheroid Earth on a flat plane. He claims the above map, called the AuthaGraph World Map, achieves this task. The projection, first created in 1999, frames the world's physical components in a 2D rectangle, attempting to represent their relative sizes as accurately as possible. It does so by dividing the world into 96 triangles, making it a tetrahedron, then unfolding it to become a rectangle.
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Use spatial resources and technology in the classroom.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
GTAV Technology and cartography in Geography Find out what spatial technologies are and how they can be used by students in the classroom. From the GTAQ
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Free site dedicated to help teachers educate and engage students using Google Earth
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
GTAV Technology and cartography in Geography GE Teach is a phenomenal site, designed to bring geospatial technologies into the classroom in a way that is incredibly user-friendly. This site allows you to use Google Earth with clickable layers. With multiple data layers of physical and human geography variables, this interactive globe puts spatial information in powerful, yet fun, student-inspired platform.
Kristen McDaniel's curator insight,
March 29, 2013 9:54 AM
Use Google Earth in the classroom with clickable layering of maps. Great for bringing Geography into your classroom!
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Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from The Pennsylvania State University.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Learn how advances in geospatial technology and analytical methods have changed how we do everything, and discover how to make maps and analyse geographic patterns using the latest tools. Next free, online course starts March 25th - and it's great!
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Use our interactive In Charted Waters tool which shows information & visuals on how our knowledge of the world map has evolved.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
This interactive map/timeline takes users around the world through the major events representing the expansion of human knowledge. Representation of knowledge from a Eurocentric perspective.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
This atlas resource contains numerous interesting online maps and different ways to look at our world. Voter AtlasEnergy AtlasDemographics and Statistics AtlasSave the Children AtlasGlobal Development AtlasHousing AtlasHealth in America AtlasAtlas of Geographic Variation within the Medicare Program
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A new tool on the MapMaker Interactive lets you create your own set of links that you can save and share with the world. Check out these example sets of links and then get started on creating your own.
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Ever wonder what it would look like to plot every single geotagged tweet since 2009 on a map? Twitter has done just that.
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A new website lets people delve into data on the world's cities.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Getting behind world cities.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Gapminder - probably the most useful tool for understanding association through statistics - excellent graphics and videos to explain all manner of co-relations
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4000+ educational games, videos and teaching resources for schools and students. Free Primary and Secondary resources covering history, science, English, maths and more
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What are solar cells and how are they utilised to allow sunlight to be converted into electricity? Find out all about it in this infographic. Acknowledgements Infographic text © Dr Niraj Lal
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Explore ten 'big ideas' that encapsulate the technological and social trends that have pushed geographic information systems (GIS) onto the Internet in a significant way. See how to apply these ideas to your own world. Open your eyes to what is now possible with Web GIS, and put the technology and deep data resources in your hands via the Quickstarts and Learn ArcGIS lessons that are included in each chapter.
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Windows on Earth - Stunning photos by astronauts
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
GTAV Technology and cartography in Geography Stunning images - all free to use! Could be used in many ways - browse through the collections.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
great to use as a class quiz
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
This book provides an accessible and readable way for educators to understand what spatial thinking is and why it matters. "It helps us think across the geographies of our life spaces, physical and social spaces, and intellectual space.”
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
The Storytelling Map Tour template is one of the free templates Esri provides for creating story maps. This tip shows you how to create a map tour story map by downloading the template Esri provides, creating a web map using ArcGIS Online for your tour, and then configuring the template to display your web map. It's easier than you think!
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GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Have some fun!
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