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Mary,
If you do ever create a CA1 assignment I would love to see it as long as I didn't need paper to complete the work.
Your idea gave me a great idea! Most of the High Schoo CTE courses end with a unit on careers and I could use GIS and GPS to have students learn about the areas where their job interest could be. So if a student finds a job opening in Augusta, GA fo…
In the Business and Management Applications course GPS would be great for teaching and demonstrating logistics with merchandise. To study the process the UPS and FedEx uses to best support their customers. In Business Law GPS could be use to locate…
The information is neat. With Business and History integrated at so many levels GPS and Google maps will teach and entertain students.
As a Business Educator geography has a basic roll in where did our laws originate from, where do our jobs go when we discuss outsourcing and off shoring, as well as where most items our manufacture. Now after reading this article I agree that GIS so…
GIS technology allows the user to analyze and manipulate different data “layers”. By manipulating the layers, a student could examine the relationship between population density and public road availability in a given area. Students compare the laye…
1. Discussion question: Read this short article (Beyond State Capitals) and share your thoughts on the state and relevance of geography in the curriculum today. After you read through the rest of it, have your thoughts changed at all?
As a Business…
Kim,
You are absolutely correct that eportfolios with capture the students' attention. They will be more upto any assingment when they can brag, show-off, or out do another student's work. E-portfolio will bring students closer to 21st century skil…
E-portfolios
What do you see as potential benefits of using e-portfolios for students?
E-portfolios will allow a person to express their knowledge effectively by linking to an actual website to communicate web development skills than simply listin…
I wanted to do my presentation on something I didn't know; in other words, what could I teach myself. I read over many articles and blogs regarding the pros and cons of using Wikipedia in the classroom and I realized the ones who are opposed are the…
I was shocked that I missed eight questions. I thought more men than women used the internet (at least in my home). The World is Flat was a great source but I don’t remember Netherlands, Demark, or Iceland being mention. Overall, to teach students t…
Streaming videos can save teachers and students from downloading and using memory by automatically linking through the internet video clips. Streaming video is best valued as a “narrative visualization”, “dynamic modeling”, and simulation of real li…
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