GIS Ed Weekly: Remembering Michael Jones and Kobe Bryant

On and Off Campus

 

Yahoo News: Web app helps GPs map out best route for vaccination of housebound patients - "VaxiMap, created by two students from Magdalen College, Oxford, comes up with the optimal route and has already been used for more than 61,000 home visit vaccinations in Britain in the last few weeks."

 

Worcester Telegram: Clark to partner with city, local organizations on $10M workforce training grant - Clark University received a U.S. Department of Labor H-1B One Workforce Grant and will collaborate with Quinsigamond Community College, the City of Worcester, the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, and MassHire Central, among others. "Participants will be able to take part in on-the-job training, paid internships, and apprenticeship programs, the university said, and become prepared for jobs like information security analyst, GIS technician, software developer, and computer support specialist."

GIS Education Weekly: Using StoryMaps to Teach about UASs

Resources for Teaching and Learning

Pilot Online: Online map details history of the state’s former Rosenwald schools for African Americans - "...Preservation Virginia recently completed an online, interactive map of the state’s Rosenwald Schools — 382 of the more than 5,300 built in the South from 1917 to 1932." I noted a grant to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to map the schools back in 2017.

The Guardian: Denmark frees 32 inmates over flaws in phone geolocation evidence - "Denmark has released 32 prisoners as part of an ongoing review of 10,700 criminal cases after serious questions arose about the reliability of geolocation data obtained from mobile phone operators, local media have reported." Via Thierry Gregorius.

GIS Education Weekly: Underrated Colleges Have Winning Geographies

Course and Classroom Resources 

Year 5 NAPLAN Scores

Sydney Morning Herald: Where you live is determining your school's NAPLAN score - "In a new analysis, Macquarie University researchers have found that the area in which a student goes to school is one of the clearest predictors of year 5 NAPLAN reading scores, painting a stark picture of Australia's socioeducational divide."

Habitat Seven: The Climate Explorer - Explore graphs and maps of historical and projected climate variables for any county in the contiguous United States. "The Climate Explorer is a web application offering interactive maps and graphs to assist users in decision-making and resilience-building contexts. Built to support the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, the Climate Explorer helps people explore the exposure of human populations and valued assets to climate-related hazards that may put those assets at risk."