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Palm
Beach County Plugs Its Wastewater System
A question
on mapping accuracy of the Palm Treo setup.
"...I am curious what level of accuracy are you getting from your Palm
Treo setups? More importantly what level of accuracy is the regulating
body expecting. ..."
- Jared Yost, GeoData Technologies
Podcast:
Making Geography Relevant in Our Schools
The podcast, which addresses geography education and how it could be
spiced up, was recorded in response to the Ofsted report. The report
highlights the finding that teachers don't take students on field
trips
because of health and safety concerns. Two comments
were posted on the All Points Blog about the Ofsted report.
"... The report from Ofsted claiming schoolchildren see geography
teaching as boring and irrelevant fails to highlight the impact of new
technologies in the classroom. ..."
- Angela Baker, community programmes manager, ESRI (UK)
"... what's important in the lesson-plan is to incorporate both
aspects
of study and research -- part paper/book, part digital. I feel this is
critical to learning. ..."
- Daniel
