Esri Partners with Waze Connected Citizens Program to Deliver Unprecedented Open Data-Sharing Option Global smart-mapping leader Esri today announced a new partnership with Waze, the free, crowdsourced traffic and navigation app that makes it easier for governments of every size, anywhere in the world, to begin building intelligent transportation systems in their communities. Governments already using the Esri ArcGIS platform can quickly and easily exchange data through the Waze Connected Citizens Program, a free, two-way data share of publicly available traffic information. Waze has set the gold standard on how to share and harness the power of anonymous, aggregated data to promote greater transportation efficiency, deeper insight into travel conditions, and safer roads. Esri is the industry leader in geospatial analytics, empowering more than 350,000 organizations in making location-based decisions. In 2014, Waze pioneered data standards for road closure and incident reporting, which are embedded within customized data feeds provided to each partner.
OASIS Bing Maps V8 | Taking Maps in a New Direction Apps bridge people to the things they want and the places they want to find via their phone, tablet, or PC quickly and effortlessly. Consumers specifically, use apps for their most basic needs and desires; checking the weather, listening to music, scoping out deals, finding new venues, and of course communicating with friends. With this information readily available, consumers have a more intimate, connected and relevant experience with your business. Bing Maps allows your application to: Quickly visualize data on a map—such as geographic coordinates, employee distribution and retail locations. Case Studies: Sky News ArabiaSky News Arabia Uses Cloud Mapping Technology to Power News Website
Home - Open Educational Resources (OER) for Faculty - LibGuides at Wiley College The purpose of this guide is to aide in understanding, finding, and creating OER. The guide will be updated periodically based on newly found resources and faculty feedback. The guide is broken into the following sections: 1. This section covers the definitions, best practices & policy, creating, and using OER. 2. The subsections under Finding OER provides links to OER textbooks, books, journal Articles, theses & pre-publication research, courseware & classroom materials, multimedia, & general repositories. 3. This section contains subscription-based resources the library provides. 4. This section provides you with links to other OER projects conducted at other institutions. 5. This section provides you with links to OER organizations not otherwise listed in the other sections.
Esri Launches National Green Infrastructure Initiative for Planning Esri, the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, has launched a suite of public mapping tools and data to help communities protect the places and natural resources that help people, wildlife, and the economy thrive. Leading the Green Infrastructure for the U.S. initiative, Esri has partnered with National Geographic Society to transform how U.S. communities plan development. By equipping local, regional, and urban municipalities with data and GIS tools, Esri president Jack Dangermond envisions communities working together to build a green infrastructure—a strategically managed network of open spaces, watersheds, wildlife habitats, parks and other areas that deliver vital services and enrich quality of life. With Esri’s green infrastructure planning tools, communities can identify, protect, and connect local places of natural and cultural significance before development occurs. For more information, visit esri.com/greeninfrastructure.
Resources - LearningSpace - The Open University OpenLearn’s LabSpace makes many different open educational resources (OER) available to you from a wider OER community associated with The Open University. You are encouraged to take away, re-use and remix these open educational resources to suit your needs as an educator. Broadly speaking, LabSpace resources fall into the categories of ‘content’ or ‘tools’. Content, depending on its origin and the intended audience can be published in the Resources section or in one of three places depending on who you are: IndieSpace, ProjectSpace and SectorSpace. This section provides a brief introduction to the type and format of LabSpace content and tools. Type of content Content within LabSpace can be an entire study unit or course (i.e. a set of structured educational resources ready to use), or individual ‘assets’ which can be used to make up a study unit. Study Units LabSpace is a developing and expanding resource, so the variety of the study units available can and does change over time. Tools
The digital journalist’s toolbox: mapping Engaging and interactive journalism is still possible even without an extensive knowledge of coding. But how? We’ve taken the guesswork out, scouring the internet to find the most accessible tools to create multimedia content. Below, you’ll find a collection of completely free applications that will do all the work for you — no coding required: Google My Maps: This tool is probably the most familiar, simply because it mimics maps seen on a phone’s GPS. With My Maps, you can create your own customizable Google map with pins, layers, text and photos. Story Maps: This platform allows users to incorporate audio into their maps in addition to normal features such as images and video. Story Map Cascade: Unlike similar tools, this tool creates a sliding vertical story map instead of a horizontal one. Open Heat Map: Heat maps assign colors to numbers, coloring different parts of a map based on data. Google Crisis Map: This tool works well when covering an ongoing crisis.
HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework Can I take a course at HippoCampus for credit? How do I enroll in a course at HippoCampus? Are there any fees to take your courses? How do I make a comment or ask a question? How do I get individual help with my homework assignment? What are the preferred texts? How can I use HippoCampus in my classroom? How can I use HippoCampus in my home school? Can I use the resources you have available for my homeschoolers? Do you know of any wet lab resources to accompany HippoCampus content? Is there a script, app, or something that can be used to track student use of HippoCampus? Can I share my HippoCampus content with my fellow teachers? Can I download the video? Can I change the size of the video window? Why won't the Environmental Science animations play? What if my page scroll bars or "submit" button are not showing? I can't find closed captioning. Where does the content from your site come from? There is an error in the multimedia presentation. How do I report a course errata item? No. AP Course Ledger
Using GIS to Form Resilient Public Health Plans As Negative Health Effects from Climate Change Grow, Sophisticated Technology Will Guide Preparation By Alex Philp, PhD, Upstream Research, Inc. The earth's climate is changing, and this will have a tremendous impact on human health. But the relationship between climate change and health is complex. Ongoing climate change observations and associated prediction models show clear evidence that significant portions of the American population are experiencing various health-related repercussions. Gaining a better understanding of the interconnections between climate change and human health requires substantial investment in scientific monitoring, risk mitigation, and devising resiliency strategies. How Climate Change Affects Health General scientific consensus clusters most of the effects from climate change into four major categories: For each of these major climate change categories, a number of specific health effects are already being observed across large tracts of the United States.
Pressbooks | Create Books. Print & Ebooks. Technology: Use or lose our navigation skills Paul Grogan/PhotoPlus Magazine via Getty Images The paths of vehicles along Regent Street in London, revealed by long-exposure photography. In 1984, I was part of a team that was developing a receiver for a satellite-navigation system. After weeks of debugging, the blur of random digits settled on a location. Navigation has invaded our dreams of the future. The days of being lost should be over. More satellites are being launched to improve coverage. Successful navigation indoors will need other solutions, such as a combination of wall-mounted antennas and WiFi. But navigation is about more than knowing your position. “When it comes to choosing routes, humans outwit machines.” Mobility will not become intelligent unless we break two bad habits. Second, we should make better use of our innate capabilities. Use or lose Human spatial memory is outstanding. But navigation is a 'use-it-or-lose-it' skill. The human brain has everything that a hill walker might put in a rucksack. Six nines
MyEducationKey :: About Us : Learn Through Free Online Educational Videos and Lecture from Qualified Teachers. At MyEducationKey, we believe in Educational Excellence for All, and striving to extend the Frontiers of Knowledge and Learning across all sections of the society. To accomplish this goal, we have created this educational portal - delivering world-class, online, multi-media educational content for anyone anywhere. MyEducationKey is a virtual open access educational video lectures and content web portal for students, self-learners, and teachers. As increasingly high-quality educational content is becoming available online, we are committed to the use of technology in bringing it all together and create a user-friendly learning environment that is accessible to everyone around the globe. This site will advance useful human knowledge, creativity, lifelong learning, and social welfare of educators, students, and self-learners. MyEducationKey is based in Canton, MI. Sohail Khan Founder, MyEducationKey
Beyond the sea | Andy Woodruff By Andy Woodruff on 24 March 2016 In the northern reaches of Newfoundland, near the town of St. Anthony, is the Fox Point Lighthouse. What’s really across the ocean from you when you look straight out? I’m inspired by a map done a couple of years ago by Eric Odenheimer and some follow-ups by Weiyi Cai and Laris Karklis of the Washington Post. The latitude maps got me interested in answering the question more strictly: standing on a given point and facing perpendicular to the coast, if you went straight ahead, never turning, where would you end up? 1. With that in mind, here are some maps showing the points from which you can “see” each of the continents. Coastline angle Coastlines face all different directions, bending and turning constantly. Taking “across the ocean” to mean directly across, perpendicular to the coast, then what’s across the ocean depends on where you’re standing! The much-maligned Mercator projection comes in handy here. Straight lines on a round object Conclusion
Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories Open Educational Content For this exemplary collection the focus is on best practice examples: IIEP-UNESCO Wiki of OER repositories UNESCO/IIEP hosts a Wiki that offers a list of several portals, gateways and repositories. MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) Free and open resources designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. OER Commons OER Commons is a teaching and learning network offering a broad selection of high-quality Open Educational Resources, OER, that are freely available online to use and, in most cases, to adapt to support individualized teaching and learning practices. Open Courseware Directory (OCD) You will find 7 groups of subject-specific open courseware but also specialized resources for each subject, that is why it is acting as a gateway to specific repositories. OpenCourseWare Finder Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Iconex Learning Objects Repository ide@s MIT OpenCourseWare NLN (National Learning Network) Materials)