Friday, October 30, 2009
Spaceship Earth ... All We Have
This image is in the public domain, from NASA, image #AS17-148-22727. Taken by US Navy Captain Ronald E. Evans, aboard Apollo 17 mission, on 7 December 1972. He used a 70mm Hasselblad camera. This view of Earth was taken 21 750 nautical miles from Earth and shows the west coast of Africa.
People without a "shared sense of place in space" could NOT care less about it; and, their careless behaviors reflect this attitude ...
i4CQuest-Keywords: NASA Place-Based “consequential learning” experiences
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24:4
... it assumes that experience is based on a temporal sequence of static representations, ......
animals from their ordinary environment and place them in artificially created settings. ......
(consequential) learning. Noting that a subset of objects ...... NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035. ...journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid... - Similar -by JR Movellan - 2002 - Cited by 10
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Know Your Watershed Impact Zones
Web Services and the National Hydrography Dataset Plus
A variety of Web services that leverage the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus) and information linked to the underlying NHD are now available or planned for the near future. The NHDPlus surface water drainage network enables Web-based up/downstream query of water quality information, including water quality assessments, water quality impairments, and permitted dischargers. This presentation will describe a collection of such Web services that are being delivered by the USGS and the USEPA.
Alan Rea, USGS, and Thomas Dewald, U.S. EPA
Ridges of Leavenworth County
125th Anniversary of the USGS Topographic Mapping Program
In a bold, visionary statement to Congress on December 5, 1884, USGS Director, John Wesley Powell announced, “A Government cannot do any scientific work of more value to the people at large than by causing the construction of proper topographic maps of the country.”
Friday, October 23, 2009
Fifth Freedom Eagle with Attitude :: Thinking Indian
Over the years the environment and human interaction significantly affected the inherited traits of individuals. I believe thinking Indian is not just a philosophical approach, it is a cognitive process. If American Indian people ever stop “thinking Indian,” we will become cognitively extinct.
There has been significant research related to Indian students and learning modalities, styles and specialized pedagogy, but it is often juxtaposed with Western theories of learning and cognitive processing. The tribal colleges have intrinsically become centers of “Indian thinking” and need to continue their practices and research to improve American Indian
student outcomes.
Richard B. Williams is the president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest provider of private scholarships for American Indian students seeking to better their lives and communities through a college education at the nation’s 33 accredited tribal colleges and universities.
Labels: distributed learning, eco-history, national heritage trail, outdoor recreation, Planet U, social responsibility, watershed
Friday, September 18, 2009
Google Earth KMZ/KML to GPS converter (Demo)
Labels: distributed learning, geotourism, national heritage trail, outdoor recreation, watershed
Capture Google Earth Routes with a Garmin GPS
You will need:
1-Google Earth
2-KML To GPX Converter 2
3-MapSource (Or EasyGPS)
Labels: distributed learning, geotourism, national heritage trail
Using Google Maps with Garmin GPS Devices
Follow along with Jake from the Garmin Blog Team as he shows users how to send Google Map information directly to your Garmin GPS device.
Visit http://garmin.blogs.com for more information
Labels: agritourism, geotourism, OCTA-Trails Marker, outdoor recreation, Planet U, watershed
