Bob Lang's 30 Days of Mapping

During November, Bob Lang shared a map a day and there were some very useful resources. He has now produced a map which shares details of all the resources that he created.

Thanks very much Bob! These are great.

  

ICT Toolkit books

Preparing some resources for the course on Geomedia in Salzburg that I am leading next week.

You still have chance to get funding to join me for a repeat of the course in February 2013, and the course is likely to run several times during 2013 - I'd love to see lots of you there... you can get your fees, accommodation and travel paid for.

I'm going to be using several activities from two books which I edited, and were published in April this year.

You really need to have a copy of these books in your departmental library.
They have been selling well, and getting good feedback from users.
You can order them from the GA shop - click to follow the link, and remember that GA members get a discount on purchases, and free P&P

Multimedia made Easy by Paul Cornish

GIS made Easy by Bob Lang

Plenty of Google Earth ideas in both books !!

Historical Shoreline Surveys

Coastal erosion is a theme which many teachers use Google Earth to explore, thanks perhaps to work by Bob Lang looking at the Holderness coast.
For more on that, you can check out the book 'GIS made Easy' that I edited. It contains all the details of an activity using Google Earth to measure coastal erosion and plan for the consequences in the future.

Now, NOAA has released thousands of old coastal surveys of the USA, which can be viewed overlain on Google Earth, and the historical time slider allows changes in the coastline to be viewed.