Friday, December 20, 2013

Merry Christmas and a Google Earth New Year

As with the last few years, you can follow Santa's journey on Christmas Eve via the Google SantaTracker tool.
The site is already 'live', with some fun games and other content but don't forget that nothing much will be happening Santa-wise before Christmas Eve....

Monday, December 16, 2013

What does winter mean to you ?

That's a key question posed by the Pole of Cold team who are currently heading for Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited place in the world, to explore how communities cope with extreme cold. I've been thinking about this in the last few days, as we move towards Christmas which (when I was a lad) would guarantee freezing temperatures and plentiful snow....

We will be looking at the team's journey as part of the new materials I'm creating for the Google Earth courses that are definitely going to take place early in the New Year.

What's the coldest you've ever been, and where were you at the time ?

Please tweet me a reply to @GeoBlogs, or add a blog comment below. Thanks to those folks who have already replied in the few minutes since I tweeted the original question...

While we're on the subject of winter, have some free Mission:Explore missions which are all primed and ready should we get a white Christmas, which is looking quite unlikely judging by the shirt-sleeve weather we currently have in Norfolk...

Sunday, December 01, 2013

GA Google Earth Courses

Good news earlier this week that it seems the remaining GA Google Earth courses are likely to be running in 2014. The first is in January in Leicester.
One of my jobs over Christmas will be to refresh those courses, and add in any new findings since the last time they ran.
I also need to refresh my memory of ArcGIS Online and how to use this tool in the classroom...

Look forward to seeing some of you there...



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