Geography Educational Applications and Appliances

From OLPC

[edit] Introduction

Geography learning process usually needs of a great amount of different maps. Maps are specially usefull because can illustrate different human or natural procesess interactions with the geographical space. Maps are not only a kind of graphical system that have to be interpretated but also an important analysis tool. --Gasat 10:07, 1 December 2006 (EST)

[edit] What kind of questions can answer GIS technology?

[edit] Where is my country?

Argentina [link map]

[edit] How GIS Technology can help teachers?

[edit] Introduction to Maps Reading

[edit] Introduction to Map Proyections

[edit] Geographical Coordinates

[edit] Scale

[edit] Map Symbols

[edit] Map Types

[edit] Dinamical Maps and Geographical Analysis, Introduction to Geographical Information Systems

Geographical Information Systems is not only a technology for viewing maps it is also a complete scientific discipline about geographical information spatial information displaying, analysis, modelling and also have special concerns in computer science in the area of geospatial databases systems and in social science in subjects like how people, specialists and societies can interact with this kind of information and systems.--Gasat 15:27, 4 December 2006 (EST)

As you can see the GIS universe is so broad, but in education concerns GIS can help in specific matters.

[edit] Introduction to Remote Sensing Images

[edit] Proposed Cartographic Applications

[edit] Lightweight Systems

[edit] More Specific and Advanced Systems

[edit] On Line Geographic Resources

Globe Project</li>

link Globe Educational Project

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en