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Thanks Shannon for sharing this link…http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=4860 And….if you haven’t seen this week’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory” on CBS then…http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/ http://gisined.blogspot.com http://www.barbareeduke.com Read more

http://geography.about.com/b/2008/02/25/100-things-to-do-with-google-maps-mashups.htm http://gisined.blogspot.com http://www.barbareeduke.com Read more

I’m at GeoTech 2008 this week in Dallas, TX! We had a great day of pre-conference workshops today. I enjoyed hearing Bob Coulter of the Missouri Botanical Garden talk about Historic GIS Data. Bob did a great job talking us through downloading and incorporating the downloaded files into our own GIS projects.http://www.nhgis.org/ I worked with… Read more

Case of the Missing Ship for ArcMap 9Those of you who enjoy some of the nice features of ArcVoyager (circa 1997) will appreciate this revision. I’ve taken the original activity and data and written instructions and student handouts appropriate for the ArcMap 9.x world. Teachers always ask me for these kinds of activities so I’m… Read more

The last day was a busy one for me….since I was presenting. Dr. Shannon White and I talked about Curriculum and Mapping. One key concept is what I’m calling “georeferenced curriculum”. We talk about finding connections in the curriculum for geography and spatial thinking. What I’m really talking about is “georeferencing the curriculum” just like… Read more

What a fun time at the User Conference Plenary sessions and map gallery reception! Along with all the cool stuff going on at ESRI and the continuing software developments, you had to be impressed with a pen that makes maps and a globe that projects the data like my computer screen. WAYYY cool! The afternoon… Read more

A friend sent this article to me…thought you folks might be interested! http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/reports/gis/index.cfm http://gisined.blogspot.com http://www.barbareeduke.com Read more

Greetings again from Alexandria, VA! I’ve changed my website so now that no matter where I live, the web will be active. You can now reach me at http://www.barbareeduke.com in addition to this blog. I’ll be doing my best to keep things updated as I begin new projects.Thanks for your interest! ~Barbaree http://gisined.blogspot.com http://www.barbareeduke.com Read more

Stuck at home on a snowy and icy day…working on my upcoming presentations and lessons… Question of the day is: What is driving GIS in Education? Industry perspective? Curriculum perspective? Teacher perspective? Data or curriculum? Are there other things driving the content that is produced? What does the community need over what’s being done? http://gisined.blogspot.com… Read more

Well, I’ll be on the road again in February. I’m joining the good folks in Dallas, TX at Bishop Dunne Catholic School for GEOTECH 2007. For those of you interested in integrating GIS and geography with literature and language arts in the K-12 classroom, you’ll love this information. Find out more at http://www.bdhs.org/geotech/. http://gisined.blogspot.com http://www.barbareeduke.com Read more