Author: Barbaree
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Education and Geography Articles from Directions Magazine
If you’re looking for articles that I wrote while at Directions Magazine, you’ll find them among the selections at the GISetc website. Read more
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Remotely Spatial Column with Apollo Mapping
In cooperation with Apollo Mapping, I have a monthly column entitled “Remotely Spatial” where I share geospatially connected ideas and talk about how maps connect us to the world in different ways. Remotely Spatial: I Love a Parade! Posted on March 4th, 2025 It’s carnival season! In the Gulf Coast states, we’re thinking of beads,… Read more
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42 ideas to include GIS in Education
Fresh from our presentation at the Esri EdUC 2015 with a salute to Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Shannon White and I present 42 ideas and resources that may help educators and geomentors in their quest to integrate GIS, GPS and geography into education, inside and outside. bring a map of the school to examine and interpret map… Read more
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Common Core Reading & StoryMap
I’ve tied the reading standards to story maps to give students an unique opportunity to engage with the standards. There is one activity for each main standard. Central Ideas Compare Approaches Read and Comprehend Delineate and Evaluate Developing Ideas Inferences and Evidence Integrate and Evaluate Interpret and Analyze Point of View and Purpose Structure and… Read more
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Interesting Facts: Authors, Words and Books
Thanks to a recent email from a friend who knows I love cool and quirky facts, I found yet more…cool and quirky facts from the fun folks at Mental Floss. Some of these could be excellent fun as we approach the end of another school year. Twain’s Typewriter Authors and Their Typewriters I’m thinking this… Read more
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The Great Watermelon Conundrum of 1978
Summers were great fun in the deep south! Afternoon stiflingly sticky heat was often quenched with the timely arrival of the ice cream truck as you hear “The Entertainer” tune from far away…plenty of time to plead with Mom for 50 cents! Often those summers included family journeys to the lake house or our family farm. My Popie, my… Read more