"Quick tutorial on using BatchGeo to create a map using your own spreadsheet (Excel) data."
Source: www.youtube.com
BatchGeo is incredibly easy to use mapping platform…think of it as GIS-lite, but only for simple points on a map (no lines or polygons). If you have a spreadsheet full of point data, you can make a map with your own data. You can grab data straight from an online list (like Wikipedia), but you can also use spreadsheets, databases, or any other tab delimited dataset.
This week has seen disasters and destruction on an unprecedented scale, and the HOT Community has activated to respond. Hurricane Irma is the largest Hurricane ever recorded, and has torn death and destruction through the Caribbean. Destruction on some islands is estimated at 95%, affecting the lives of 1.2 million so far, and on track to cause severe destruction across the entire Florida State, where mass evacuation is currently underway. Barbuda’s prime minister, Gaston Browne, described the damage as absolutely heart-wrenching. ‘The island is literally under water and barely habitable,’ Browne said. ‘About 95% of properties are damaged, there is a serious threat of disease. Additionally, those already affected by Irma fear a second brutal battering by Hurricane Jose.'”
Source: www.hotosm.org
Want to see geographic knowledge and geospatial skills in action? Crowd-sourced mapping is increasingly an important resource during an emergency. Poorer places are often not as well mapped out by the commercial cartographic organizations and these are oftentimes the places that are most vulnerable to natural disasters. Relief agencies depend on mapping platforms to handle the logistics of administering aid and assessing the extent of the damage and rely on these crowd-sourced data sets. My students and I join OpenStreetMap (OSM) projects, especially when there is a major humanitarian need…it’s a great way to make service learning and geospatial technologies come together. The projects that are marked urgent by the Red Cross are all in Haiti right now. Here are is a video playlist that explains the project and how you can help if you are new to OpenStreetMap (OSM).
Tags: disasters, mapping, edtech, STEM, weather and climate.
“The Esri Education Outreach team is pleased to announce the release of a sample pack from the forthcoming GeoInquiries™ collection for World History classrooms. The sample pack includes the first four activities supporting high school World History instruction with ArcGIS Online. Eleven additional activities will be released over the coming weeks.”
Source: education.maps.arcgis.com
ESRI has produced GeoInquires for Earth Science, US History, Environmental Science, AP Human Geography, 4th grade, and has recently released a now has a set for World History.
Tags: mapping, geospatial, empire, historical, ESRI, K12, edtech.
“The app built by expert teachers for savvy students. Practice hundreds of real AP-style questions. Level-Up from easy to expert; learn while you play.”
Source: www.iscore5.com
With all the great functionality and content of their prior version, iScore5 APHG is now updated (with no more lockouts and practice FRQs with rubrics for users to work through). Available on Apple and Google Play platforms and at a reduced price for bulk purchases. Also available is our AP Psych app, our AP US Government app and very soon for AP World History.
Tags: APHG, teacher training, edtech.
“Wed, Mar 15, 2017 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT, the NCGE will be offering a free webinar for educators on the OpenStreetMap project and how you can incorporate it into your class.”
Source: attendee.gotowebinar.com
My students and I join OpenStreetMap (OSM) projects, especially when there is a major humanitarian need…it’s a great way to make service learning and geospatial technologies come together. If you are interested learning more about OSM projects for the classroom, sign up for this NCGE webinar seminar as soon as possible, since this event is right around the corner (the webinar program is one of the many great reasons to become a member of NCGE).
Tags: NCGE, mapping, edtech, cartography, geospatial, disasters, STEM.
“GPS Essentials is the most complete GPS tool on Android Market: Navigate, manage waypoints, tracks, routes, build your own dashboard from 45 widgets.”
Source: www.youtube.com
GPS Essentials is a great, free app for a smart phone to create some simple, geospatial data. Need to create a GPX file with various waypoints (that imports nicely into ArcGIS)? Try GPS essentials (or if you only need linear data about where you’ve been, Map My Run works if you don’t mind needing a desktop to download the GPX file).
A step-by-step tutorial on how to create an interactive map with Visme, a free online infographic and presentation tool.
Source: blog.visme.co
If you have students use Piktochart to create infographics, then this is a new tool that you should consider. In addition to creating infographics, this allows users to create and embed interactive maps in those infographics. This is a both a baby-step into the world of GIS as well as a way to create student projects that are richly informative.
Tags: APHG, infographic, visualization, mapping, GIS, edtech.
“Spatial analysis has always been a hallmark of GIS, the ‘numerical recipes’ which set GIS apart from other forms of computerized visualization and information management. With GIS we pose questions and derive results using a wide array of analytical tools to help us understand and compare places, determine how places are related, find the best locations and paths, detect and quantify patterns, and even to make spatial predictions.”
Source: blogs.esri.com
GIS is a key tool in spatial analysis, but it can also be a driving force in using math, science, technology and (yes) geography as interdisciplinary ways of teaching the curriculum. StoryMaps can be rich with images and videos, but also filled with data at a variety of scales. ESRI has share a “Maps we love” page with excellent examples of Story Maps and carefully explains WHY these maps work and HOW they were made. Are you new to using the Analysis tool in ArcGIS Online? Try this exercise on analyzing flood risk to guide you through some of the steps to learn what is possible for a project of your own. What stories can you tell in this rich, visual format? What visual template shown might lend itself best for that sort of project?
Tags: mapping, GIS, ESRI, geography education, geospatial, edtech.
Miriam Nielsen will be teaching Human Geography on Crash Course. We’ll talk about what Human Geography isn’t, and what it is. Let’s talk about humans in the context of our world.
Source: www.youtube.com
Yesterday the popular video channel Crash Course announced that they would be producing a new series dedicated to human geography, much to the delight of APHG teachers everywhere (some wished it were John Green hosting the series, but I say we should give Miriam Nielsen a chance to win us over). I’m sure that as more videos are produced, I will tag them and include them here on Geography Education.
Tags: APHG, teacher training, edtech, video.
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