I saw this story develop this morning via twitter. Andy Pag is 13,500km into the inspiring Biotruck Expedition attempting to travel around the world emitting less than 2 tonnes of CO2, and discovering how other people are cutting their footprint. I enjoy seeing his updates on twitter, then this morning his arrest in the Indian city of Ajmer unravelled live on the internet.
A recent report on the impact of Digital Explorer’s two year programme to improve the use of technology in the geography classroom has resulted in 80% of teachers involved noting an improvement in pupil engagement and understanding.
This is fantastic news and shows the positive impact that technology can have. A full copy of the report can be downloaded.
This fourth entry in Digital Explorer’s Google Earth gallery is where it all started with a study of urban land use in Marrakech with pupils from Eastbury Comprehensive in 2006 on the Toubkal ’06 expedition.
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The use of Google Earth and remote blogging received an Innovative Geography Teaching Grant from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). |
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This work is also held up as a national case study by BECTA’s Next Generation Learning project. |
Download the Google Earth tour – Marrakech Land Use
You will need Google Earth to view the tour. If you don’t have Google Earth, you can download it for free:
Contact Digital Explorer, if you would like to make a Google Earth tour for your expedition or fieldwork.
The third entry in Digital Explorer’s Google Earth gallery features educational videos made during the E-Base Goes Live Expedition. More educational resources about Antarctica can be found at 2041′s Education Site.
Download the Google Earth tour – Antarctic Education Videos
You will need Google Earth to view the tour. If you don’t have Google Earth, you can download it for free:
Contact Digital Explorer, if you would like to make a Google Earth tour for your expedition or fieldwork.
This is the second entry in a series of expedition based Google Earth tours from Digital Explorer. We will be publishing a new tour everyday for the next couple of weeks. The E-Base video story Google Earth tour allows you to follow the E-Base Goes Live Expedition day-by-day with geo-located videos, as the team work to put up wind turbines in Antarctica.
Download the Google Earth tour – E-Base Video Story
You will need Google Earth to view the tour. If you don’t have Google Earth, you can download it for free:
Contact Digital Explorer, if you would like to make a Google Earth tour for your expedition or fieldwork.
This is the first tour in the Google Earth Expedition Gallery from Digital Explorer. Follow the team from Digital Explorer, npower and 2041, as they find about life in Antarctica during their time on King George Island on the E-Base Goes Live Expedition in March 2009.
Download the Google Earth tour – Living in Antarctica
You will need Google Earth to view the tour. If you don’t have Google Earth, you can download it for free:
Contact Digital Explorer, if you would like to make a Google Earth tour for your expedition or fieldwork.
The rise and rise of Twitter (a micro-blogging tool) has brought into sharp focus a division or shift in the social networking or web 2.0 landscape.
If web 2.0 can be categorised as online conversation, whether that be through the written word, images, video or a mix of the three, do we join these conversations based on who they’re with or what they’re about?
Contacts or content?
The difference is most notable when comparing a service such as Facebook and something like Twitter. Facebook replicates real world friendship and contact groups, whether professional or personal. Although some people gather ‘friends’ as those they’re life depended on it, the convention seems to be that I need to know you before I allow you to be my ‘friend’.
Conversely with Twitter, the friendship aspect is taken away. I can become a ‘follower’ of someone’s Twitter feed (the list of short comments or ‘tweets’ that are made and posted online). Becoming a follower of their feed does not make me their friend. It means that what they are saying is interesting and I would like to know what they have to say. It may be that I know this person in the real world and know that they are interesting, but there is much more opportunity to take the ‘contact’ aspect out of Twitter and keep your relations based on your interest in the conversation.
If you are looking for interesting Google Earth files, try the Google Earth gallery. There is an education section for teachers looking for classroom resources. As part of the launch of the new version of Google Earth, Digital Explorer’s Antarctic Food Web has been featured.
Just a quick post before I head off to do some more expedition blogging via satellite…
Applied Satellite Technologies have supported Digital Explorer over the past few years with satellite communications equipment, advice and support. They are absolutely fantastic. No query is too complex and no project too strange. I cannot recommend them strongly enough if you ever need any satellite communications for your project or expedition.
Thanks in particular to Simon Thompson as well as the technical team who deal with all my problems without making me feel like an absolute muppet.
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