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A great image for showing the pulsating rythmns of a dynamic urban system. We treat population density as a static metric, but how many people are in a given place would truly be difficult to fully quantify. What logisitic difficulties would this shift present for cities?
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To see videos (and many more pictures) of the National Geographic Society's headquarters, visit the Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance site. Especially interesting was National Geographic's production of a Cuba map. Delete the scoop?
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The happiest city in America is Napa, California -- and the saddest all swear too much.
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Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Utah, Vermont--congratulations on being the happiest states according to a Twitter metric. Louisiana, I'm just sad typing that you are the saddest of all states. Delete the scoop?
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Check out the twitter activity in realtime
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What is the social media conversation like in different regions of the world? This realtime mapping tool lets user visualize the ever-shifting world of Twitter. In this screen shot, Europe and Africa are sleeping the Americas are buzzing with activity. 
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February 5, 11:41 AM
This links to a page where tweets on Twitter are tracked in real time and displayed on a dot map.
Questions: What regions have the most tweets? Do you think there are differences between what people tweet about in one part of the world versus another? What can you infer about the areas where there are no tweets reported? 
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February 6, 12:59 PM
Globalisation and the Internet; The US superpower and its softpower 
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February 24, 6:50 AM
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"I just returned a few days ago from a great week in Cincinnati, reading AP Human Geography exams with 400 colleagues from all over the country. In our conversations during the reading, I've come across a number of these folks, many of them high school teachers, who are interested in using Twitter but have no idea where to start.
What I'm hoping to do in the next few entries is give a beginner's guide to using Twitter, specifically geared toward folk who are completely lost at how to begin. I'll also be working toward some 'best practices' once the basics are out of the way."
See this 'ultimate Twitter Guide'-- http://blog.grabinbox.com/2012/04/24/the-ultimate-twitter-guide/
Need a few ideas of who to follow? Try these: https://twitter.com/#!/APHumanGeog/geog-400-ideas/members If you are unconvinced that you should get on twitter (#aphg), see: http://www.creativeeducation.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/09/10-reasons-to-tweet/ Delete the scoop?
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A couple of weeks ago, I put up a post detailing how swearing on Twitter increases during the course of the average day. It seemed people get more angry and sweary outside of work time, rather than during.
This is a curious combination of geospatial social media technologies (so of course I found out about it on Twitter). To read an article about this on The Guardian's site (with Google Fusion Tables to the data) see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/04/twitter-swearing-london ; Delete the scoop?
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NEW! Search for place-specific posts on this interactive map. To search for thematic posts, click on the filter tab. Stay connected and receive updates in the way that best fits how you use social media. Update Notifications: Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest. Email: Click 'follow' button at top right of this page. Sites with Content: Wordpress, Scoop.it. Other Topics: Regional Geography, Cultural Geography, History & Social Studies Education & Social Media Classroom. 
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August 17, 2012 7:38 AM
Just a short note to say thank you for all your great 'scoops'; I rescoop almost everything and really enjoy getting your updates!
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Also as a wiffiti, the chat is archived at: http://flash.locamoda.com/wiffiti.com/cloud/cataclysm.swf?id=85588&title=1 Delete the scoop?
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Today I've been at the the National Geographic headquarters in Washington D.C. with other Geography Education Alliance coordinators. They have the coolest toys to capture some amazing footage, including crittercams. 
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March 7, 10:54 AM
Seen one of these used on mt washington to get aerial footage of people on the summit. Delete the scoop?
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Tags: historical, landscape, NYC. Delete the scoop?
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This is a primer on how to use online resources for geography students so they can learn more about the world by participating in global conversations (not just hearing about them). Delete the scoop?
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One of the great things about Twitter is that it’s a global conversation anyone can join anytime. Eavesdropping on the world, what what!
While many educators have been using http://popvssoda.com/ to show the linguistic regions in the United States, this is a similar map, with the added social media component. To map out these regions, the cartographer used the word choice on geo-tagged tweets as the data source. For another twitter, map, the following link shows which regions are most actively engaged on Twitter: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/top-countries-on-twitter_n_1653915.html What do these regions show us? What types of regions are these? 
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This is a really cool use of twitter! I use the term soda, which most of the northeast uses as well.
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Good luck to both teachers and students! Delete the scoop?
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A great geography teacher worth following on twitter! This particular tweet is a great example of the collaborative exchange of resources possible on social media. Delete the scoop?
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Our friend @theurbanologist has a keen eye for finding practical applications of geographic models. Why is the image significant? Delete the scoop?
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Twitter is supposed to have turned the world into a global village. But new research shows that our Twitter ties are considerably more parochial than most of us imagine.
Globalization inherently means unequal access to technological resources and means of communication. This is clear that major nodes of interconnection leapfrog others, but most people still have very place-based regional centers of interaction. Geography still matters. Delete the scoop?
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Wondering how you are going to keep up with a large twitter conversation? Try this Twitterwall called Monitter. Many tweets fit on one page, pictures and names are large so you can identify the contributors. The multiple columns like Tweetdeck are smooth, making this quite functional to follow several 'backchannel' conversations. Displayed is http://www.visibletweets.com which prettier, but less functional for a high volume conversation (good for a guided discussion, with one tweet at a time). http://wiffiti.com presents 7 at a time which is also nice for focused discussion groups. Delete the scoop?
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