Here’s an interesting geography learning game to play with your students in the classroom. GeoGuessr will show you a location in Google Street View, and you have to guess on a map where it is. One pin, onto a global map. The closer you land the pin, the more points you receive. I picked up 500 points in the first round, so I guess I am a terrible player. How about your students?
It’s been a while since the last redesign of the blog’s theme and the new logo, but I hadn’t had the chance to explain the main idea behind the color scheme and the logo itself. Here it is, on the image above.
Chris Ware’s Covers — The New Yorker
Two amazing New Yorker covers by Chris Ware. Left: inspired by Newtown’s shooting. Right: “Back to school” cover inspired by his daughter’s teacher and her class.
The Great Wall Of Chinese Language
A visual-based learning system which teaches Chinese characters, simple stories and phrases. Watch the TED Talk.
A new era in planetary exploration. — The New Yorker
Brain Pickings publishes an interesting section of James Mangan’s ” You Can Do Anything!” (1936) entitled 14 Ways Τo Acquire Knowledge, where the author lists the steps someone has to take to learn anything.
How far would be to Mars if the Earth were 100px wide. A great addition to OMGSpace.net.
