I will be at the GA Conference at the University of Derby on the 13th and 14th of April 2007
I will be leading a session on the use of GIS for Beginners on the Saturday morning, with a great deal of help from fellow members of the GA Secondary Phase Committee.
I will be mentioning a few Google Earth style links.
Hope to see some of my readers there - come and say hello!
I'll have a limited stock of GeographyPages pens for you to claim!
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Utah...
Was contacted this week by Lucas Shaw.He works for the Utah Geological Survey and wanted to pass on some news about a new KMZ file to download from the WEBSITE of the UGS.
This offers the chance to fly around some of the geological wonders of the state.
Click on PLACES TO SEE and then GEOSIGHTS, such as the Devil's Playground which is pictured above...
Site also has some TEACHER RESOURCES, such as a presentation on the Ice Age to download.
Check it out ! It's "Something Good" (can you work out the musical link here...)
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Geograph Layer
Thanks to Noel J (again) for a tip off of a new layer on Geograph which has updated the existing layers and allows you to see images which have been uploaded. Called the SUPERLAYER. Head over to GEOGRAPH and download the KML file.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
His Dark Materials
Noel Jenkins has consistently produced interesting resources for use with Google Earth, and he has now launched another excellent resource idea using text from Philip Pullman's award winning "Northern Lights". This is a book I read over 10 years ago and had a big impact ! The front cover of the edition I have shows the alethiometer: a very geographical looking device. In fact in the USA the book is published as 'The Golden Compass'. The needle seeks out 'truth' rather than true North...
The action in the first book ends with a whirl of events taking place in Svalbard, but not the Svalbard that we know - one that is subtly different i.e: it has armies of polar bears and witches in a parallel world, which has Norroway and Brytain.
Noel's idea is to use Google Earth to find the locations in the book.
This, as Noel says, is difficult on Svalbard except for the small areas where there are high definition images.
Check out NOEL's PAGE for more.
Why not buy Northern Lights from the GeographyPages bookshop. Click the image below to go there then follow the link and spend spend spend !
Noel uses the text to explore the landscape of Svalbard, which is shown in all its glory in the wonderful images of Laurel McFadden at her COLD PHOTO blog.
Also looking forward to the film, which is apparently due out in December 2007.
The action in the first book ends with a whirl of events taking place in Svalbard, but not the Svalbard that we know - one that is subtly different i.e: it has armies of polar bears and witches in a parallel world, which has Norroway and Brytain.
Noel's idea is to use Google Earth to find the locations in the book.
This, as Noel says, is difficult on Svalbard except for the small areas where there are high definition images.
Check out NOEL's PAGE for more.
Why not buy Northern Lights from the GeographyPages bookshop. Click the image below to go there then follow the link and spend spend spend !Noel uses the text to explore the landscape of Svalbard, which is shown in all its glory in the wonderful images of Laurel McFadden at her COLD PHOTO blog.Also looking forward to the film, which is apparently due out in December 2007.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)