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Thursday, November 19, 2020

GIS Ed Weekly: New center focuses on community geography

On and Off Campus 

The Daily (University of Washington): People’s History map details the UW’s racist history, emphasizes student movement - The People’s History group, in collaboration with the Geography Graduate Student Association, presented its newly published interactive map, “A People’s Landscape: Racism and Resistance at UW, ...The map is a historical guide to the university’s legacy of racism and colonialism, featuring 32 locations across the UW Seattle campus, each marked with a representative photo." It's a StoryMapJS application.

Ohio State: Pandemic has surprising impacts on public transit demand - "While demand for public transit dropped about 73% across the country after the pandemic hit, the reduction didn’t impact all cities equally, according to the study, which analyzed activity data from a widely used public transit navigation app. Large, coastal cities – like Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, D.C – saw demand fall further than cities in the Midwest and South."

Thursday, June 25, 2020

GIS Ed Weekly: An Ethics Teachable Moment

Resources for Teaching and Learning

Visual Capitalist: Visualizing the True Size of Land Masses from Largest to Smallest - The sizes are nice but honestly, seeing the detailed shapes is pretty amazing, too! Check out Mali! Here's the graphic for download.

Education Dive: There's more to geography than just 50 states and their capitals - NatGeo, NCGE and a California teacher of the year address the value of and hope for geography's future in K-12.