Spacehopper - Challenge Students With Geography Puzzles Based on Street View

Spacehoppe r is a new geography game that I recently tried on the recommendations of Keir Clarke and Larry Ferlazzo . Spacehopper features ...

Google Maps Engine Lite - Create Advanced Custom Google Maps

For years Google Maps had the option for creating custom placemarks and basic shapes in the "my maps" option in your account. But ...

Extreme Environments - A Geography iBook

Extreme Environments is a free iBook that I found earlier this week on the Digital Geography blog. The book has four chapters about challe...

7 Solid Resources for Geography Awareness Week

This week is Geography Awareness Week. On Saturday I shared a great resource for a geography lesson on interdependence. That lesson is calle...

The Global Closet Calculator - A Lesson in Interdependence

Geography Awareness Week starts on Sunday. One of the National Geographic resources for this year's Geography Awareness Week that I thi...

A Tour Guide for Exploring the World On Your Desktop

Back in June Google added a 3D Tour Guide feature to Google Earth for Android. This week Google added that feature to Google Earth 7 for you...

A Simple Google Earth Learning Activity

The picture that you see to the left is the one that I included in yesterday's month in review post. The picture was taken in Rugby, Nor...

21 Map Creation Tools for Students and Teachers

Yesterday, I published a review of MapFab which is a fabulous, free, and simple tool for creating maps  online. Writing that post got me th...

Visualizing the World's 50 Most Prominent Peaks

The Guardian recently published an excellent interactive data visualization of the world's 50 most prominent peaks . The visualization o...

Virtually Cycle the Alps

Last week while exploring the Google Chrome Web Store I came across a great site called Cycling the Alps . Cycling the Alps offers dozens o...

Create Mapped Data Visualizations on GeoCommons

GeoCommons provides excellent tools for creating and sharing map-based data visualizations. Users can select a from twelve base maps to bui...

Have You Been Where the Queen's Been?

In case you haven't heard, this year is Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. The BBC has a huge collection of resources about the ...

Alpha Maps - Wolfram Alpha Entries on a Map

One of the aspects of Wolfram Alpha that I like is the "fact sheets" that are available for most topics. For example, if I search...

Video - What Can You Do With Geography?

Last week the Google Lat Long Blog posted a short promotional video about some of the professions that utilize geography. Of course, the vi...

Vintage Travel Films and Posters

On Monday, Brain Pickings had an article featuring this collection of vintage travel posters available through the Boston Public Library...

World Map - Visualize, Explore, and Publish Geographic Information

World Map is a free program developed by the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. World Map is designed to enable creatio...

GE Teach - Teaching With Google Earth

Recently, a high school geography teacher, Josh Williams , contacted me to share his website GE Teach . GE Teach is built around the Google ...

Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle

Where in the World? is a geography puzzle constructed by The Atlantic. The puzzle is based on Google Earth satellite imagery. There are two...

Videos, Animations, and Explanations of Continents and Drift

Here are two quick resources for teaching about continents and continental drift. First, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center we have t...

Helicopter Views in Google Maps

For a long time you have been able to fly over places in Google Earth. Now you can do a similar thing in Google Maps . On Friday Google anno...