Thursday, July 25, 2013

DigitalPlanet.org

DigitalPlanet.org is a website dedicated to using Google Earth in Geoscience education - cool! There is also a matching book Google Earth and Virtual Visualizations in Geoscience Education and Research published by the Geological Society of America.

Sigh...yet another source of good and useful course materials...not that that is bad, but how do we possibly keep track of all that is available? At the end this 'excess of non-organized resources' forces you back to your starting point: create your own materials! (which, in the end, is probably the best approach anyways...) There is really no difference between these crowd-sourced activities and the standard, one-size-fits-all approach of traditional textbooks and lab manuals.

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