Discovered a new, online resource for teaching spatial thinking today while
attending the UCGIS Summer Assembly <http://www.ucgis.org/summer2009/> here
in Santa Fe. Take a look at teachspatial.org <http://www.teachspatial.org/>:


*About TeachSpatial*

*TeachSpatial.org implements suggestions from a multi-disciplinary Symposium
on a Curriculum for Spatial
Thinking<http://www.teachspatial.org/sites/teachspatial.org/files/Symposium%20on\
%20a%20Curriculum%20for%20Spatial%20Thinking-final.pdf>.
The symposium, organized by Diana Sinton, Mike Goodchild, and Don Janelle,
was hosted by the University of Redlands in June 2008. Its purpose was to
discuss the merits and content of a general curriculum course on spatial
thinking. One of its recommendations was to establish a wiki site to promote
the discussion and sharing of resources among instructors.*

*Participants in the Redlands meeting were Kate Beard-Tisdale (Spatial
Information Science Engineering, Maine), Marcia Castro (Global Health and
Population, Harvard), Jeremy Crampton (Geosciences, Georgia State), Phil
Gersmehl, Geography, CUNY Hunter), Mike Goodchild and Don Janelle
(spatial@ucsb), John Kantner (School of Advanced
Field<http://www.teachspatial.org/category/concept-terms/field>Studies,
Santa Fe), Steve Marshak (Geology, Illinois Urbana-Champaign),
Jo-Beth Mertens (Economics, Hobart and William Smith), and Diana Sinton
(Spatial Curriculum, Redlands).*
*What you can do here*


- *Create an account and contribute. Account setup is automated and fast
and your email address is kept private.*
- *Once logged in, you can subscribe to content types (blogs, links,
discussions, etc.) to get emails announcing new postings -- do this from
your My Account page <http://www.teachspatial.org/user>*
- *From the "Create Content" page you can post: *
- *schemas (e.g., models and representations) to help
link<http://www.teachspatial.org/taxonomy/term/499>concepts into
broader frameworks of spatial reasoning
*
- *teaching resources (syllabi, lesson plans, exercises, examples
of student work, etc.)*
- *links of interest to this community*


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www.analyticjournalism.com
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