Thursday, October 20, 2016

New Paper: How to make an Excellent Google Earth tour

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We (myself and Artemis Skarlatidou ) have just submitted a paper to a cartographic journal about a successful experiment we did on users...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Embedding Google Expeditions in teaching

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tl;dr summary   Interface and technology:  Excellent Content: Very good Educational design: Could do better. Worth investigating: Yes ...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Students creating Atlas Tours (aka Story Map, Google Earth Tour)

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Screenshots from student produced ATs I've found on the web What is an Atlas Tour? So I’ve been writing some papers over the su...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Thoughts on Expeditions following CAGTI16

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Expeditions as Purple Cow: Expeditions is Google’s project where you use a viewer (such as cardboard ) with your smart phone.  The system...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Thoughts after CAGTI16 (Geo Teachers Institute) part 1

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So this time last week I was helping lead the Californian Geo Teachers Institute .  John Bailey had filled his hall to capacity with some am...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

EarthQuiz quick review

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I came across EarthQuiz done by some colleagues running the Geode.net project . Its a really nice idea, find some streetview (or other...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Virtual Reality: iPhone or Microwave?

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It's fair to say that the iPhone, and all the smart phones that followed, have revolutionized our lives.  Microwaves haven't.  I rem...