Category Archives: GIS
SchulGis
2 weeks ago we tried out our first “real” GIS. We chose SchulGIS, a software that’s free to download. The only thing you need is an office package to work with data. The main thing SchulGIS offers is a tutorial … Continue reading
Map Mashups
Map Mashups simply use an existing map and add information of any kind on a second layer. Thus this is comparable to a GIS. Mashups can be produced by everyone, although Google Mashups has been taken offline. Our task was … Continue reading
Filed under GIS, out of the ordinary, School examples
Gapminder
<Gapminder is a very useful tool for presenting statistics of any kind – even for the English classroom! As they say themselves, they are “unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact-based world view”. Well, this sounds a bit like … Continue reading
Filed under GIS, School examples
Geographical Information Systems
Geographical Information Systems are used to visualize any kind of geographical data. They can be very complex, but their main advantage (in my eyes) is that the information can be arranged (and rearranged) in a very personal way by each … Continue reading
