Due to some scheduling issues, the Wisconsin DEN held a geocaching day a week before the National DEN Geocaching Day. The day was a success. We were a small group of five, two couples and one leader. We had a challenging start to the day as we were all learning to use the GPS units that [...]
Wow… check out Google Mars! How cool is this! The late-breaking news just released a few hours ago is that Google has landed on Mars! Google now links us to the Red Planet via Google Mars! We now have access to false-color elevation, black and white visual , or infrared imagery of Mars. You and [...]
What luck! This week my winter 2006 issue of Drive magazine for Subaru owners arrived in my mailbox. I drive a Subaru Outback! Tell me this wasn’t serendipitous (check out Visual Thesaurus if you ever need to check word meaning… I love Visual Thesaurus — it is such a cool tool when you are grappling [...]
Three HOT G’s are on my mind…Geocaching, GPS, and Google Earth! Fourteen years ago I became very intrigued by "adventure learning." In fact, it was Will Steger’s Polar Expedition and his engaging World School for Adventure Learning (see Story 10)that changed my entire view of the future of education. Even though my colleague, Mary Baumann [...]
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