Brisbane Flooding
Roger and Anita Palmer of GISetc were at the Australian Geographic Teacher Association (AGTA) in Adelaide during the Brisbane flooding. We were with many teachers from the Brisbane area, and certainly, most teachers who were at AGTA had friends and relatives who lived...The Perils of Being Anti-Social
This article from Harvey Mackay was shared with us this week and we were so impressed with it we wanted to pass it along to you here. Wishing you a happy and *social* 2011! “Is social media a fad or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?”...We’re Kicking Up Our Heels to Kick off the Holiday Season!
This was just too much fun – we couldn’t resist! Happy “official” holiday season!Our work in Bahia Ballena
As we mentioned in our last blog highlighting the Participatory GIS vimeo, GISetc is working in the small rural community in southwestern Costa Rica of Bahia Ballena. This is a wonderful community of forward thinking, hard working, and dedicated community members who...Feliz GIS Day!
Sounds festive, don’t you think? GIS Day is held each year in the third week of November, on the Wednesday during Geography Awareness Week, a geographic literacy initiative sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Watch the GIS Day video from...Geography Awareness Week
Launched in 1987 by presidential proclamation, Geography Awareness Week is an annual opportunity for families and schools to engage in fun, educational experiences that draw attention to Geo-Literacy and the importance of geographic understanding in ensuring our...NEW Carl Videos!
Last week we released our first holiday video, featuring Carl the navigational elf: “I’m telling you Santa, we really need a better routing solution.” Then we launched our W.W.C.S. (What Will Carl Say) contest – where you can put the words in Carl’s...Localization, Participation & Communication
As GISetc is working in the small community of Bahia Ballena, Osa, Costa Rica, this video is a rich source of information for working with a community to help them plan and to enable them to use mapping tools to solve community issues. This is also a great video...A Mapping Mistake
Google Maps and Google Earth is a wonderful tool that has brought mapping and geography back into the public eye in a big way. I do believe that using the right tool for the right job should be our mantra. In this particular case, in our humble opinion, using a GIS...