Can you guess where we are taking you today? Here’s a clue: This city’s name translates to “where the river narrows.”
Source: video.nationalgeographic.com
There is a delightfully simple premise to National Geographic video’s newest series: after seeing scenes from the cultural and physical landscapes of a place can you guess where in the world it is? You can find more resources about this unnamed country (no cheating) here.
https://www.youtube.com/v/0fSiiAunc2A?fs=1&hl=fr_FR
“Despite global inequalities, most of the world is better off than you think – and better off than it has ever been before. Watch Hans Rosling explain why.”
Tags: media, models, gapminder, development, perspective.
Source: www.youtube.com
Photographer Vincent Laforet spent the early stages of 2015 photographing the likes of New York, Las Vegas, London, Sydney and Barcelona from a helicopter.
Tags: urban, megacities, unit 7 cities, images.
Source: www.cnn.com
“We are Dangerdust. We love chalk. We started this project at the beginning of our senior year in college. It all began because we wanted to share a quote that had inspired us, in the hope that it would inspire others. We sneaked into school that weekend to illustrate the quote on an abandoned chalkboard. After that one time we were hooked, and Dangerdust was created.”
Source: www.behance.net
We are sometimes so obsessively focused on the self in our society, that we discount the communal and the spatial impacts in describing who we are. So much of our ‘selves’ that we prize as so highly individualized and unique are a beautiful product of all the places and people who have influenced and shaped our lives.
The mythical holiday beast is once again on the prowl, but beware, he’s making his way across the Atlantic
Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
Questions to Ponder: So what kind of cultural diffusion is this? Expansion diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion or hierarchical diffusion? Why so?
Is this more as a pop culture phenomenon or a revitalization of a folk cultural tradition? How come?
Tags: religion, Europe, culture, historical.
The mythical holiday beast is once again on the prowl, but beware, he’s making his way across the Atlantic
Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
Questions to Ponder: So what kind of cultural diffusion is this? Expansion diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion or hierarchical diffusion? Why so?
Is this more as a pop culture phenomenon or a revitalization of a folk cultural tradition? How come?
Tags: religion, Europe, culture, historical.
https://www.youtube.com/v/D9Ihs241zeg?fs=1&hl=fr_FR
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Source: www.youtube.com
To gain a global perspective inherently requires understanding multiple perspectives. Africa is frequently portrayed as ‘the other’ but also homogenized within a single narrative that ‘flattens’ truth. How can we teach and learn about other places in a way that develops geographic empathy and shows the many stories of that can belong to any one place?
Tags: Africa, perspective, TED.
GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.
Source: edcommunity.esri.com
ESRI has produced GeoInquires for Earth Science, History and now AP Human Geography. If you try out an APHG GeoInquiry, please take a moment or two to give the folks at ESRI some feedback. They are especially looking for reviewers for the GeoInquiries for 1) Distance, transportation, and scale 2) USA Demographics and 3) Agricultural Patterns. If can get a free ESRI book for your time by assisting them in refining these educational resources.
Tags: physical, mapping, geospatial, ESRI, APHG.
GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.
Source: edcommunity.esri.com
ESRI has produced GeoInquires for Earth Science, History and now AP Human Geography. If you try out an APHG GeoInquiry, please take a moment or two to give the folks at ESRI some feedback.
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