You may not believe this, but I have never actually blogged before in my entire life. But I thought you might enjoy coming to see what I'm thinking about related to technology and research during the class or on your own time. I'll use this blog to show you some technology stuff that I find that I might want you to see like interesting videos, online programs, even GIS stuff that hopefully will blow your mind at least a little. Ya you might say, "Hey that's boring Mr. Howell trying to make us learn." Well that's partially true. If you don't like it, why don't you start your own blog on blogger.com and see what you can come up with. I dare you!
So for this first post, I have some links for you. The first will get you into a presentation that I created to help you on the quiz that I made for you guys about beginning your studies in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The second will actually let you take the quiz (woohoo!), and the third will let you download a file that you can use in Google Earth. It is my first attempt at creating my own Google Earth map, and it should get YOU excited about creating some of your own. Later, some of you will get to go an environmental field expedition to bring back data that the class can put in Google Earth. For right now, enjoy the map file I created!
And here is something ridiculous sutff we did in the lab this week. Can you figure out what it is that we are doing? :-)
And here is one more tidbit of interesting information about a someone using Google Earth to try and find BURIED TREASURE in Texas. Can you discover where it is on Google Earth? Use these news stories to figure it out.
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