Education

The president praised the value of geography and then asked a question during the finals of the 2012 National Geographic Bee, Courtesy of National Geographic Channel.

National Geographic Education staff ask why geo-literacy is important.

National Geographic Education staffers discuss the meaning of the term.

Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. The sandbox lets virtual water flow over the surface using a GPU-based simulation of the Saint-Venant set of shallow water equations. We (the UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences, http://www.keckcaves.org) built this for an NSF-funded project on informal science education. These AR sandboxes will be set up as hands-on exhibits in science museums, such as the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) or Lawrence Hall of Science. Project home page: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox

Matt Zook, Ate Poorthuis, and Monica Stephens explain the exciting event they hosted in Manhattan, Iron Sheep. Loosely based off the popular television show, Iron Chef, Iron Sheep was a map hacking event where instead of editable ingredients, teams are given geo-coded data and asked to create

Google put together this video.

How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.

An introduction to what The Open Geospatial Consorium (OGC) is and what it is trying to do through its consensus standards development process. (There are no big words, nor diagrams.)

When collecting data that will be used in a geographic information system (GIS), it is important that you record it properly. In order to do this, you need to understand the difference between accuracy, precision and resolution. This short video provides a brief and easy to understand introduction to these concepts using target-shooting as an analogy. Created by Dr. Colin D. MacLeod, GIS In Ecology

When you walk into the new History Colorado Center - which will open this spring - one of the the first things you will see is a terrezzo-tile floor. It's part art, part geography and part history.