Barbaree Duke: Incorporating geospatial technologies and geography into traditional subjects.

Category: geocaching

Where Is Your Next Adventure?

Barbaree

October 30, 2011

confluencing, earthcaching, explore, geocaching, Geography awareness week, gisetc, gps, mission

I’m gearing up for Geography Awareness Week 2011 with an emphasis on the theme: Explore the Adventure in Your Community. The folks over at The Geography Collective have created cool MISSIONS to get you out and about…exploring your community. Also, Daniel Raven-Ellison, one of their geographers, is stopping by the NCGE Webinar program to show off… Read more
Caching into Writing

Barbaree

March 14, 2011

ArcGIS Explorer, caching, confluence, content caching, creative writing, English Language Arts, geocaching, geospatial technologies, google earth, gps, MotionX GPS, writing

Geocaching isn’t just for science class or the serious geography geek! A cache is simply a hiding place, and caching is hiding something like a treasure. Nature is full of treasures waiting to be explored. A popular movement called “geocaching” gets folks outside with their GPS units to find treasures hidden by other geocachers. If… Read more