Previous issues: December 2010 - January 2011 - February 2011 - March 2011 - April 2011 - May 2011 - June 2011 - July 2011 - August 2011 - Sept-October 2011

News stories

• Former US Secretaries of State Urge Funding for Geography Education http://t.co/aK35vlPn
• Google Earth - One World Many stories - after one billion downloads http://www.OneWorldManyStories.com
  
• Do you understand the Importance of 'where'? http://bit.ly/t6qcZ2
• In 2011 Digital media skills vital: Horizon report analysis by @Ignatia http://t.co/D4HoOdmE
  
• Brussels to announce broadband push - http://t.co/qC88J9zA
  
• CryoSat-2: the satellite launched by the European Space Agency to monitor ice layers http://t.co/blJYTs1O
  
• Earth Observation is an essential part of Worldchanging http://t.co/wtusowWV
  
• Earth Observation: Emerging Markets, Partnerships Set to Fuel Global Growth http://tinyurl.com/5umol2n
  
• EU Council concludes volunteering cannot replace state responsibilities http://bit.ly/nx1Zc2
  
• FuturICT Project to connect GI scientists http://t.co/fUbpSjKc
  
• Geography as a modern subject http://j.mp/prV1cd
  
• GIS in education: The good, the bad, and what's missing http://t.co/Vi71C2Ca
  
• Google Earth has been downloaded more than one billion times. That's a lot of exploring! http://goo.gl/NrXEv
  
• Google Earth used to prove illegal mining in Goa, India: http://t.co/xvfjbRYg
  
• International Rainforest Essay Competition http://t.co/m4Gfi8W0
  
• Location-based service revenues in Europe to reach € 435 million by 2016 http://t.co/QU3cvgDm
  
• RT Productivity, digitally enhanced: what the world will look like by 2020 http://t.co/LnWfONvg
  
• Ten tech trends for 2012 from Gartner http://t.co/2fldzM1f
  
• The Importance of 'where' http://t.co/ULFEq0Qy
  

Maps and mapping

• A Google Map lets you calculate the risk of flooding anywhere in the world: http://t.co/ElYT9Y3T
  
• Earthpulse from National Geographic http://tinyurl.com/bsexpfj
  
• Enhanced Geothermal Systems in Google Earth: http://t.co/sfrd5p1D
  
• FGDC Prototype Geospatial Platform US website has been launched at http://t.co/XTUDvkTg
  
• Holiday Travel Patterns Based on @Foursquare Checkins http://t.co/qMWQDVMo
  
• Interactive site about Yellowstone http://t.co/WRiKbVHK
  
• Maps highlighting current events and disasters http://t.co/xcFzs958
  
• Meaningful map checklist: http://t.co/qPypVOuf
  
• Severe drought in Texas shows up in new NASA satellite data maps of groundwater. http://t.co/7f3HzujG
  
• Spatio-temporal Analysis of Arctic Sea-ice Melting Onset Dates http://t.co/3pYVhfoi
  
• UK Police launch crime map 2.0 http://t.co/KpnDqsW4
  
• Unofficial London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Map http://t.co/XnOdXzng
  
• Vienna – Resilience and Taxi Tracks http://t.co/PmVvHjxS
  
• Visualizing Data: World Obesity Rates, NY Marathon Route Census Analysis http://t.co/jGDpzyHq
  
• Woman Stats Maps: Comments:Great for Gender Issues http://t.co/hyacDmji
  
• World map of List of Nobel laureates by country by Country http://t.co/fGTqT2P7
  
• Global maps showing human impact: http://t.co/Kfl7Ts51
  
• What is special about spatial http://t.co/Hd5pcrsC
• Wikipedia maps: "The world of Wikipedia's languages mapped" - http://gu.com/p/33abm/tf
  
• World geography online maps http://www.wereldkaart.tk
  
• The difficulty of drawing lines around ice http://tinyurl.com/bssc7us

Images and geo-media

7 billion - free App for iPad
National Geographic magazine presents 7 Billion: How your world will change - to coincide with the arrival of the 7 billionth human being to our world. This app explores the challenges of a growing human population in a world of limited resources with informative videos, interactive maps, in-depth articles, and stunning photography. Info at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/7-billion/id473524096?mt=8

• TerraSAR Satellite captures NZ Oil Spill http://bit.ly/vJuWAB
  
• Where to locate open source video clips http://blog.euscreen.eu/
  
• Edmediashare: Sharing educational video http://www.edmediashare.org
• Directions Mag: Visualizing Crime - A “Data Rose” Blooms http://t.co/6H07qA9Y
  
• Canaries’ new hot spot http://t.co/rf8Vsyz9
• A stunning time-lapse of Iceland's nightless summer http://t.co/p7rk4bql
  
• Animated flooding of London: Google Earth http://t.co/NNDVEySb
  
• Earth from Space: Australian basin http://t.co/6Mys8DTk
  
• Earth from Space: Reclaimed lands http://t.co/Gofy7pUQ
  
• Earth from Space: Spitsbergen, Norway’s largest island: http://t.co/w4DNd7av
  
• Earth from Space: Thailand floods http://t.co/Xt68KV3x
  
• Free videos about digital-earth themes http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/
  
• GPS-GIS video: http://t.co/PuvbXqz6
  
• Massive impact of water diversion on inland seas: Lake Orumiyeh http://t.co/HEbxUjKg
  
• Previewing the 2012 London Olympics in Google Earth http://t.co/nh9Lkckf
  
• Satellite eye on Earth: October 2011 – in pictures http://t.co/Hi8LxU7z
  
• Saving tomorrow today? That was yesterday… | Views of the World http://t.co/8ZWLn2ZP
  
• Sea Ice and Icebergs off East Antarctica http://t.co/Z1FkUC1r
  
• Why Hollywood is a lousy geography teacher http://t.co/pRApCKxa

Technology, tools, apps and portals

• Useful Free Maps site http://t.co/v33a1Ao
• 100 best web tools http://edudemic.com/2011/11/best-web-tools/
  
• Free GIS How to Make Your Own Social Media Map in Minutes http://t.co/V96zb84E
  
• Avenza Systems free PDF Maps viewer (Video): http://t.co/xqKTAxLs
  
• Creating radial flow maps is easier than ever in ArcGIS: http://t.co/eKL9R52y
  
• Directions Mag: Classrooms Explore Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health Using CHANGE Viewer http://t.co/DSrJKQZI
  
• MapSocial Beta (for facebook) coming in December http://t.co/BMtfVgTV
  
• Quakefeed: Explore and map earthquakes through this app http://t.co/mjf85mrH
• OpenStreetMap: The LearnOSM site offers free tutorials http://t.co/ka4KXhm7
  

Data sets and related information

• New ways to see OpenStreetMap data http://t.co/dwQPLGHg
• Nationmaster for country demography / population using real data: http://t.co/808lNlAD
  
• Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualization http://t.co/mQ1CapYb
  
• Beijing to make #airquality data publicly available. http://t.co/kZ85FMOp
  
• Best-ever topographic map of Earth released: http://t.co/lovTCZ5B
  
• Carbon Visuals (http://t.co/8Hyf0mW3) showcase large dataset project on Google Earth: http://t.co/vzer8cAc
  
• Citizens Help Validate Authoritative Environmental Monitoring http://t.co/fVwUfwyO
  
• Explore Landsat data "Our Ever Changing Earth" http://t.co/34L1c0Av
  
• Faster GMES satellite data soon available http://t.co/49zG72Ua
  
• FGDC Prototype Geospatial Platform US website has been launched at http://t.co/XTUDvkTg
  
• Gapminder, a great tool for visualizing data: http://t.co/R3n4woSw
  
• GIS Data: A Look at Accuracy, Precision, and Types of Errors http://t.co/uzAas0kx
  
• Is Geodemographic Analysis The same as Racial Profiling? http://t.co/5StBoZrY
  
• Archived Landsat data http://t.co/Gofy7pUQ
  
• Long list of free datasets http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/
  
• Making a smarter planet. How to Make Sensor Networks Work Like the Internet http://t.co/H1eeB8zK
  
• Making sense of our 'sensored' planet with geography and remote sensing: http://t.co/R8fy3WjR
  
• Mapping atmospheric pollutant releases in Europe http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/DiffuseSourcesAir.aspx
  
• New US Historical #GIS web site http://t.co/sWmsilX2
  
• Nigeria’s new satellite demonstrates high resolution capability: http://t.co/jnlvHMhp
  
• Northwest Passage Was Open in 2011: NASA satellite data revealed this http://t.co/mi5mirhr
  
• Open Data Berlin makes data available online http://daten.berlin.de/
  
• South Korean Prosecutors Go After Google Street View Developer on Privacy Loss http://t.co/lWt9xnVx
  
• Street View comes to Belgium! Take a visit and check out the Grand Place, European Parliament, and Waterloo Memorial: http://t.co/5UYyKOly
  
• The National Ice Center is responsible for providing data on “the frozen north" http://t.co/fpEqKTpe
  
• UK Ordnance Survey OpenData now in ArcGIS Online GB Maps - http://t.co/5wegnH2l
  
• UNESCO launches open access education site http://t.co/DiU2ru3o
  
• Visualising climate change with the World Bank's new online tool http://t.co/xeZtuqqZ
  
• What does the data say? gapminder in the news http://t.co/pQdRixOv
  
• When does more geospatial data beat accurate data? http://t.co/LuzdHbMb

Education, Learning and Teaching

• Levels of Citizen Science as Participatory Science http://t.co/aXyEtg2k
• OpenStreetMap: The LearnOSM site offers free tutorials http://t.co/ka4KXhm7
  
• TeachSpatial relaunched, lots of spatial thinking goodies here http://www.teachspatial.org
  
• Four approaches to designing mapping projects http://bit.ly/sQ096o
• Apple Education just released a special collection of iPad resources for educators: http://t.co/nnfazqLR
  
• Collection of ArcGIS Online videos http://t.co/UdlOhs6r
  
• Digital storytelling: A tutorial in 10 easy steps http://t.co/j3rOwkJD
  
• Earth Science Week materials! Using GIS http://t.co/Rpd2WOfa
  
• Education Eye: a way of mapping innovation http://tinyurl.com/czlx4fq
  
• European report on the future of learning http://t.co/0GG9Tuy1
  
• Geography Education Game Mission:Explore Launches Online http://t.co/2PAfBD3P
  
• Going geospatial in science – a framework for teachers http://t.co/S3b9Hmb4
  
• Learning With iPads http://t.co/qNyMC5Ts
  
  

Curriculum matters

• Wind-Based Curriculum Uses Several Scales and GIS - A series of five new curricular activities http://t.co/RxyOzgfl
• Building neighbourhoods http://t.co/Km97KoiW
  
• Cool 3D projections in the streets: from public art to activism! http://t.co/WzSpMUrR
  
• Directions Mag: Classrooms Explore Impacts of Climate Change on
• Human Health Using CHANGE Viewer http://t.co/DSrJKQZI
  
• Fusing Fine Art with Cartography http://t.co/meJ9MOZS
  
• Geography Education by @APHumanGeog http://t.co/S5FZywgV
  
• Geospatial careers development: http://t.co/bVSLVKjc
  
• GIS Careers video http://t.co/DCueEubc
  
• Going geospatial in science – a framework for teachers http://t.co/S3b9Hmb4
  
• New USGS publication tracks change over a 40-year time span by comparing Landsat imagery http://t.co/roYFr987
  
• Quakefeed: Explore and map earthquakes through this app http://t.co/mjf85mrH
  
• Resources for spatial teaching http://t.co/kcmpOYA2
  
• United States and China responsible for 41% of CO2 emissions in 2009 http://t.co/QlzpGY0Q
  

Publications (free to download)

• Training kit on Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication http://pgis-tk-en.cta.int/
  
• GIS-education in a changing academic environment: proceedings available - Leuven meeting http://ees.kuleuven.be/legio/
  
• ESRI Europe User conference - education presentation downloads available http://evento.esri.es/es/euc/agenda/education--educacion/
  
• Book on Earth Observation and Climatic Change: http://books.icimod.org/index.php/search/subject/3
  
• Application of GIS for Determination of Groundwater Quality Suitable in Crops Influenced by Irrigation Water http://t.co/iCDzmFxd
  
• Distance learning best EDEN conference papers http://t.co/QXmtXOHR
  
• Free Futures Thinking Teaching Pack http://tinyurl.com/cdgzslk
  
• GIS-based Multidate Flood Forecasting using Hydraulic Model http://t.co/BQUxqLgq
  
• International Perspectives on GIS in secondary Education: http://t.co/t5CsCu7Y
  
• Subscribe to Topicscape and get an e-book about free visual thinking tools http://www.topicscape.com/blog/newsletter-subscription
  
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity released http://t.co/jjJeWH7Z