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Paul, a long time friend who works in Indonesia and definately has too many gadgets is a well known geologist and constantly surprises me with the way he combines geology, geography and photography into his adventures through Indonesia. He sent me a link to a journey that he plotted on his GPS and was translated into a track with points of interest along the way.

The application also plots speed and altitude.

So whether it is a trip on your bicycle into work, a flight in an ultralight aircraft or your next journey on holidays, you can use your GPS or as the title of this piece suggests, an iPhone.

In the classroom using such a tool to record a biology transect, a historical journey or just your favourite tourist spots around town are things an iPhone owning teacher could add into their list of activities.

To see Paul's trip visit http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1081210&code=0577e0de93149e4028a83edce51aa3f6 and on that page will be links to the application.

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This post originates from a path and a series of events that has become a life practise over the past number of years. I read the Age and the NT News online and generally from the IT section of the Age find an interesting article and follow links within the article or google a word I don't know. If the interest continues and it is related to eLearning (or flying or family) I might see if the knowledge or idea presented can be applied or reinterpreted into a context for my world. I say "my" because it is a little serendipitous, random and self indulgent.

Which brings me to crowdsourcing.

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This article is taken from http://www.openculture.com which contains fantastic open source resources for you, me and our kids. By way of example, it was World Water Day the other day which I only knew because there was an offer by government to subsidise the purchase of rainwater tanks. Now,  if you go to http://www.openculture.com/2010/03/our_thirsty_world_a_free_national_geographic_download.html there is a free resource available until April 2 on the subject.

At a conference last year, over one third of the participants had an iPhone. Half my nieces and nephews have an iPhone. Half the people in the lift at work who want to avoid i-contact, look at their iPhone... so here is the borrowed article...

Since the release of the iPhone App Store, numerous sources have commented on the potential of educational apps. While these apps can’t compete with the general popularity of gaming and leisure apps, there are a number of educational apps that mobile learners will find handy.

Continue on to view the top free iPhone apps for education.

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There are great sites for geogtraphy in education. Although these will be known to Georgraphy Teachers, some may not know about them. The first site is Geoscience Australia http://www.ga.gov.au/nmd/products/digidat/geodata250K_GE.jsp where you can purchase the 250k topograpical layer covering australia for 99 dollars. All data said to be less than five years old. Another site recommended is http://www.ilovegis.com/index.html gis 4 kids.

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