The University of Georgia has a Community Mapping Lab. What's that? This video from late August explains the background as well as summarizing a few current projects.
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education's Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (AACE-SITE) has released tahe special issue on geospatial technologies in teacher education (open access!). My Esri colleague Tom Baker and Marymount University's Elizabeth Langran edited the issue.
John Krygier and Dennis Wood's third edition of Making Maps, Third Edition: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS is out. The new edition contains over 40 pages of new content, more than 35 new maps, and updated and expanded discussions. I confess I've not heard of this book. Via GIS Lounge.