Mapping the World by Heart
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WELCOME
to MAPPING.com
Mapping.com provides extensive resources for
educators, students, and anyone interested in expanding their geographic
horizons.
Talk and Book Signing In London
"Ending World Waste, A Conversation With Three
Environmental Activists" will be presented at Stanfords Map and Book Store
in Long Acre, adjacent to Covent Garden, the evening of Monday, September
1. Presenters include David Smith, who will sign copies of If The
World Were A Village, plus Shirley Lewis and Lionel Smith. Details and
tickets are available at the shop or at
Stanfords
Web Site
If The World Were A Village DVD Available
Now
In answer to many requests, the animation of If The World Were
A Village is now available as a DVD or as a VHS tape, in English or
in French, at reasonable prices. It is available from two
sources:
The video is also available as an
Amazon Unbox Video
After clicking through, check the system requirements carefully. (Note:
popup window may say "currently unavailable"; ignore it and click
through).
Gain a new perspective on our world population through the
beautifully illustrated book "If The World
Were A Village" and its companion global activities.
Learn about the
author's consulting services, including workshops,
school programs and author visits, in-service training for teachers,
curriculum audits, website evaluation, and credit-bearing summer
institutes. David Smith travels the globe sharing his enthusiastic and
innovative approach to teaching and learning about our world
community.
MAPPING.com WEEKLY HOTLINKS
24 to 31 August, 2008
GeoBC: BC's Geographic
Gateway The Province of BC has made available online what
they call "a window to data and information sources provided by various
ministries and agencies". There are interactive maps, including a
tutorial, as well as all kinds of geographic information. A variety of
search structures have been provided -- finding data, seeing how data is
distributed, and more. Categories for browsing include archaeology and
culture, fish, wildlife, and plants, forest, grasslands, and wetlands,
fresh water and marine, land ownership and land use plans, and more.
17 to 24 August, 2008
The Manahatta Project From the site: "The aim of the Mannahatta Project
is to reconstruct the ecology of Manhattan when Henry Hudson first sailed
by in 1609 and compare it to what we know of the island today. The
Mannahatta Project will help us to understand, down to the level of one
city block, where in Manhattan streams once flowed or where American
Chestnuts may have grown, where black bears once marked territories, and
where the Lenape fished and hunted. Most history books dispense of the
pre-European history of New York in only a few pages. However, with new
methods in geographic analysis and the help of a remarkable 18th-century
map, we will discover a new aspect of New York culture, the environmental
foundation of the city."
10 to 17 August, 2008
The History of Cartography In A Nutshell About five years ago Professor Valdimiro Valerio
was asked to prepare a short article on the history of cartography for a
multimedia presentation by the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza of
Florence. He was astounded to learn that his article could only be
thirteen lines long, but he nonetheless complied. This *is* a very short
history of cartography, but still very comprehensive, and with footnotes
and links to illustrations, it's very informative.
3 to 10 August, 2008
Malaria Atlas Project The Malaria Atlas Project website has two goals:
to enable speedy communication between and among people working on the
control of malaria, and to enable viewers to browse the malaria data that
has been collected. The Data page includes links to all kinds of maps
showing the ranges of malarial risk, and the Links page helps visitors get
to other sources of all kinds of disease information. A site worth a
visit.
Visit our dedicated Amazon
Store for all your geography, teaching, and other needs.
Three supplements to "Mapping the World By Heart"
are now available -- U.S., Canada, and Mexico; click here to read about them.
A page of links to information for travelers is
available here.
OTHER SITES WORTH A VISIT
The Baglady, and
Baglady Productions Shirley Lewis, known as Baglady, lives in
Ballymena, Northern Ireland, and is passionately dedicated to removing
plastic bags from retail shops and from landfills, worldwide. Her
horizons have recently been expanding, and she is focusing as well on
sustainability, encouraging people to live "ASAP" -- "as sustainably as
possible". Her work is important and imaginative.
24 Hours On Planet
Earth A London-based site focused on a unique and quite
interesting way to help eliminate plastic, and plastic bags in particular,
from the landscape. The aim is to collect nominations for the most moving
music on Earth, and assemble a CD, the proceeds from which would be used
to create a charitable trust to pay localities for the plastic rubbish
they collect and turn over to the folks at "24 Hours", who will undertake
to remove, reuse, or recycle.
Lufthansa Virtual Pilot Game Land the jet in the specified city in Europe.
The first round is fun; the other two require
speed, good mousing skills, and excellent geographic knowledge.
The Short Sisters The Short Sisters have been singing and
performing
together since 1979. Though they are not really sisters, and not
particularly short, they do sound like sisters and share a delight in
harmony. The songs chosen by the trio tell stories and paint pictures,
conveying strong visual images through music. They favor a capella
arrangements but also accompany themselves with guitar, autoharp and
banjo. The site has information and sound bites.
Sheppard Software Geography GamesA vast array of free geography games; games
on
the whole world, on specific regions, on individual countries. Extensive,
well-developed, and fascinating.
