aclJohn's Geography Finds

MapMaker Page Maps - National Geographic Education

September 8, 2011

"Customize one-page maps and download, email, print, or share!"

This resource, from National Geographic, must have been designed with the IWB (Interactive White Board) in mind. It has an easy "touch" navigation system and it has tabs that allow users to annotate and place various icons on the map.

The map elements options also allows users to add various map details including titles, latitude and longitude lines, landmarks, and key labels. Best of all, this resource includes a full-page option to help teachers display the map as large as possible with a single touch on their IWB. There is also an option to download the final map to an image file or a PDF file.

"Note: this resource is still in beta and I found that not all the features function perfectly. e.g. I wasn't able to download the map I created. However, I captured it using snippy, (on an XP Laptop) and the Snipping Tool that comes with Windows OS 7."

Visit http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/outline-map/ to find out more.

Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Maps

Virtual globe and world atlas software

June 3, 2011

I'm sure many of you have used Google Earth well Marble is an open source virtual globe and world atlas software that also lets users pan and zoom around and look up places, streets, airports and geographical features like mountains and lakes, and rivers.

Marble...

starts up fairly quickly;

downloads with a minimal but useful off-line dataset; it lets users use the software without internet access; Note: higher resolution imagery and maps become unavailable if there is no...

Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Maps

Better World Flux

April 2, 2011

How many learners have a real understanding of the real level of...

undernourishment;
child mortality; and/or
HIV prevalence

(to name but three key indicators)?

Better World Flux provides ready access to such information.

On Better World Flux, anybody can...

choose from a large series of indicators and

compare as many countries in the world as they wants at any one time.

Visitors, to Better World Flux, can...

compare the country where they live with others they a...

Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Compare

If it were my home...

January 23, 2011

"The lottery of birth is responsible for much of who we are."

"If you were not born in the country you were...

What would your life be like?

Would you be the same person?"

If It Were My Home provides a tool to aid understanding life in other countries by comparing them; use the country comparison tool to compare living conditions in our own country to those of another.

Visit http://...

Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Compare

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John Dalziel

Liverpool, Uk

I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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