February 2012
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The GeoTech Conference
As this blog posts, I’m en route to GeoTech, a conference for educators from around the country situated in Dallas at the renowned Bishop Dunne Catholic School. Themed “Where Earth, Technology, and Innovation Meet”, the conference runs March 1-3.
GeoTech is now in its 24th year serving educators with pre-conference workshops, sessions, exhibits, and internationally...
GeoTech Workshops at NSTA
The National Conference on Science Education (NSTA) is fast approaching in Indianapolis, IN. If you’re one of the roughly 15000 science teachers attending, plan to attend a short workshop to learn how to use GIS and geotechnology to extend your students’ science learning.
Thursday, March 29 9:30–11:00 AM OR Friday, March 30 8:00–9:30 AM
Title: Mapping and Analyzing...
“There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its...”
– Josephine Hart
“If geography is prose, maps are iconography.”
– Lennart Meri
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GIS, STEM, and CTE
Last week I presented in Wichita, KS at the Kansas Winter Career and Technical Education (CTE) Conference. My task was to present GIS and how it linked to the Kansas STEM Career Cluster. Kansas is unique in that current CTE standards explicitly call for the extended use of GIS in the Cluster Map for Geospatial Technology (basically a scope and sequence for studying STEM through a Kansas CTE...