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Geography's Place In Higher Education In Singapore, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Unlike the other papers in this symposium, which deal with countries where there are large numbers of universities, and comparison can be made over time and across space of geography's place in higher education, this paper focuses on a country that was for a long time described as a 'one-university town': Singapore. What interesting story call there be when geography's presence in higher education is so circumscribed? In this paper, the author illustrates how geography's,fate in higher education in Singapore is closely bound up with developments in other parts of the world, not unlike the way in which the country's …

Geography Newsletter, Spring 2005, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Geography Faculty 2004-05
-- Dr. Philip W. Suckling Resigns After 14 Years as Geography Head
-- Dr. Dave May to Serve as Interim Head
-- Dr. Ramanathan Sugumaran Promoted to Associate Professor
-- Alex Oberle Appointed to Geography Faculty
-- GeoTREE Center to be Established at UNI's Department of Geography
-- Iowa Map Room
-- National Science Foundation Equipment Grant
-- Midwest Transportation Center's UNI Transportation Scholars Program
-- Geographic Information Science B.A. Major Underway
-- New Geography Secretary: Mrs. Janette McCulley
-- 2004 M.A. Geography Graduates
-- 2004 B.A. Geography Graduates
-- Alumni Album
-- …

Mosaic: Exploring Patterns In Literature: Volume 2: Virtual Voyages, Institute For The Development Of Gifted Education, Ricks Center For Gifted Children, University Of Denver

Ricks Curriculum Units Series

Virtual Voyages is an integrated thematic unit developed to weave together the academic strands of geography and literature into a single curriculum that fosters appreciation, awareness, and understanding of cultures around the world. The individualized research format meets the needs of gifted students to work within a particular area of passion, to work at an individualized pace, and to work with depth and breadth on projects that especially engage their interests.

Cooperative Conservation - Interagency Volunteer Program Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending September 30, 2004, Margaret N. Rees

Get Outdoors Nevada

Collaboration with Interagency Team

Although the task agreement formally commenced June 30, 2004, the agreement was not fully executed by both parties until July 29, 2004. In the first three months of this agreement, UNLV representatives have met with or communicated via email with the Interagency Volunteer Team on numerous occasions. At the first meeting on July 13, 2004, Government Technical Representative Bobbie Antonich and UNLV Public Lands Initiative Director Nancy Flagg met with the interagency team to discuss the overall goals for the Interagency Volunteer Program (IVP). The team was brought up-to-date on the status of the task agreement, …

An Interactive Learning Environment For A Dynamic Educational Digital Library, Ee Peng Lim, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Yin-Leng Theng, Eng-Kai Suen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

GeogDL is a digital library of geography examination resources designed to assist students in preparing for a national geography examination in Singapore. We describe an interactive learning environment built into GeogDL that consists of four major components. The practice and review module allows students to attempt individual examination questions, the mock exam provides a simulation of the actual geography examination, the trends analysis tool provides an overview of the types of questions asked in previous examinations, while the contributions module allows students and teachers to create and share knowledge within the digital library.

Geography Newsletter, Spring 2004, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Sandra Heller Retires After 28 Years as Geography's Secretary
-- Thank You! A Special Message to Sandra
-- Tough Budgetary Times for Higher Education in Iowa
-- UNI Geographers Participate at the 100th Annual Meeting of the AAP
-- Promotions: Dahms to Full Professor and Owusu to Associate Professor
-- News from Henry Owusu
-- News from Sugu
-- News from Dave May
-- News from Tim Strauss
-- News from Phil Suckling
-- New Courses for Tom Fogarty
-- Geographic Alliance of Iowa Takes Iowa Teachers to India
-- Chicago Field Trip for Kay Weller's …

Reconfiguring Childhood Boys And Girls Growing Up Global, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

Children are a spur, a commitment, a way of imaging the future—but all too often these sorts of phrases just rattle around a vacuum, their utterance the beginning and end of the commitment. We emphasize “the best interests of the child,”but this gloss provides a moral imperative to all manner of uncompleted projects and unfulfilled policies. Likewise, the use of children’s images or presence in public forums of all types gives a patina of honorableness to practices and plans that never actually make good on the promissory note of childhood. The 1992 Rio Earth Summit is a notable example. Such …

Winnebago Tribal Council Brief, Hank Lehrer, Brent D. Bowen

Curriculum Development

Native Impact, Native IMAGE: Institute for Managing Applications of Geospatial Extension Little Priest Tribal College - Winnebago Tribal Council Brief - 9/11/2003

Geography Newsletter, Spring 2003, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- In Memoriam: Roy Chung
-- Dr. C. Murray Austin Retires After 30 Years on the Geography Faculty
-- Dr. Tim R. Strauss Promoted to Associate Professor
-- Department of Geography to Movie into New Quarters in Fall 2005
-- Geography course enrollments
-- New Geographic Information Science Major Proposed for Fall 2004
-- Alumni Album
-- Geography Foundation Account
-- Recent B.A. Geography Graduates
-- Recent M.A. Geography Graduates
-- Current Graduate Students
-- Current Geography Faculty
-- First Year at UNI for "Sugu"
-- Spring Awards Banquet: Friday, April 25, 2003

Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about the WKU Geography & Geology highlighting activities of faculty, students and alumni.

G-Portal : A Map-Based Digital Library For Distributed Geospatial And Georeferenced Resources, Ee Peng Lim, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As the World Wide Web evolves into an immense information network, it is tempting to build new digital library services and expand existing digital library services to make use of web content. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of G-Portal, a web portal that aims to provide digital library services over geospatial and georeferenced content found on the World Wide Web. G-Portal adopts a map-based user interface to visualize and manipulate the distributed geospatial and georeferenced content. Annotation capabilities are supported, allowing users to contribute geospatial and georeferenced objects as well as their associated metadata. The other …

Geography Newsletter, Spring 2002, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- New GIS/Remote Sensing Faculty Member Appointed for 2002-03
-- Alumni Album
-- Recent Geography Graduates
-- Geography Foundation Account
-- 2002 Geography Alumni Survey
-- Results of the 2000-01 Departmental Academic Program Review
-- Dr. David W. May Promoted to Full Professor
-- Spring Awards Banquet: Friday, April 26, 2002

Australia: An Integrated Curriculum Unit, Grades 2-4, Institute For The Development Of Gifted Education, Ricks Center For Gifted Children, University Of Denver

Ricks Curriculum Units Series

An integrated curriculum is an instructional approach that connects the disciplines to an underlying theme or topic. Immersing students in an integrated-thematic unit provides the backdrop for experiences to occur across the disciplines. Shaping coursework around integrated themes is especially appropriate for gifted students, however using an integrated-thematic curriculum is appropriate for all learners as it develops students' abilities to make connections, to solve problems by looking at multiple perspectives, and to integrate information from different fields of experience. An integrated-thematic curriculum permits students to be active participants in their own learning as they design their own explorations and take …

Ocean: An Integrated Curriculum Unit, Institute For The Development Of Gifted Education, Ricks Center For Gifted Children, University Of Denver

Ricks Curriculum Units Series

An integrated curriculum is an instructional approach that connects the disciplines to an underlying theme or topic. Immersing students in an integrated-thematic unit provides the backdrop for experiences to occur across the disciplines. Shaping coursework around integrated themes is especially appropriate for gifted students, however using an integrated-thematic curriculum is appropriate for all learners as it develops students' abilities to make connections, to solve problems by looking at multiple perspectives, and to integrate information from different fields of experience. An integrated-thematic curriculum permits students to be active participants in their own learning as they design their own explorations and take …

Geography Newsletter, Spring 2001, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Faculty/Staff News
-- Recent Geography Graduates
-- M.A. Thesis Wins first Place Award
-- Current Graduate Students
-- Alumni Album
-- UNI Foundation Geography Discretionary Fund
-- Scenes From the Spring '00 Banquet in Honor of Roy Chung's Retirement
-- Spring Awards Banquet: Friday, April 20, 2001

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 76, No. 35, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Walsh, Erica. Chris Groves Recovering After Dramatic Cave Rescue – Sides Cave
• Lynch, Caroline. Night-long Rescue Effort Has Happy Ending – Chris Groves
• Youngman, Sam. Students Helping Bowling Green Economic Boom
• Pre-Law Club Hosting Panel
• New Support Group Forming – Eating Disorders
• Hall, Rex. New Traffic Signal Delayed – University Boulevard
• Ragan, Jason. Engineering Program A Step Closer
• Student Government Association Will Benefit from Online Voting
• Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Virtual Voting
• Kreitzer, Debbie. Opinion Page an Instrument of Gossip
• Van der Meer, Wieb. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 76, No. 34, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Karen, Mattias. Professor Trapped in Cave – Chris Groves
• Walsh, Erica. Elections May Go Online – Student Government Association
• Hoang, Mai Beauty King – Matt Curry, Mr. Hilltopper
• Western Grad Places Eighth in Hearst – Matt Batcheldor
• Forensics Team Wins Indiana Tournament
• Moore, Brian. Race Lawsuit File Full of Discrepancies, Contradictions – Robert Dye
• Football Players Deserve Rings
• Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Football Championship Rings
• Conger, Aaron. Teachers Should Show Compassion
• Chaney, David. Intro to Toilet Flushing – General Education
• Moore, Conrad. Geography, Geology …

Geography Newsletter, Spring 2000, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- As the New Century Dawns
-- Dr. Robert Clark Retired Spring 1999
-- Geography enrollments for Non-Introductory Courses
-- UNI Partnership in the Midwestern Transportation Consortium
-- Careers in Geography
-- Curricular Developments
-- New Cultural Geography Faculty Member Appointed for 2000-01
-- Department of Geography to Establish Foundation Account
-- Recent Geography Graduates
-- Alumni Album
-- Roy Chung to Retire This Spring
-- Spring Awards Banquet: Friday, April 21, 2000

Geography Newsletter, Spring 1999, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Faculty News
-- Dr. Michael E. Emch Appointed as GIS/Remote Sensing Faculty Member
-- New Economic Geography Faculty Member Appointed for 1999-2000
-- Summer 1999 Field Studies Course in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming
-- Recent Geography Graduates
-- Alumni Album
-- Outstanding Geography Alumnus Award for 1999
-- Spring Awards Banquet: Friday, April 30, 1999

Ua30/1/1 Visitor's Guide Campus Map, Wku Planning, Design & Construction

WKU Administration Documents

Map of Western Kentucky University with historical data and photographs.

Geography Newsletter, Spring 1998, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Faculty News
-- Searches for New Faculty Members
-- Janice M. Clark Memorial Scholarship
-- Department Renovations and Equipment Purchases
-- New Graduate Students Since Summer '97
-- Alumni album
-- Recent Geography B.A. Graduates
-- Recent Geography M.A. Graduate
-- Outstanding Geography Alumnus Award for 1998
-- Spring Awards Banquet: Friday, April 17, 1998

Geographic Information Systems In High School Geography Education: A Feasibility Study, C. Sonia Wardley

Masters Theses

This research focused on three aspects of the integration of GIS into the high school curriculum. Firstly, the investigation strove to demonstrate how GIS could enrich the high school geography curriculum in Michigan. Secondly, GIS software programs were evaluated for suitability using three techniques, and thirdly, the study area high schools were assessed for their technological capabilities relative to GIS.

The pedagogical and cognitive benefits of using GIS as a tool were established _ from the pertinent literature and the feasibility of incorporating GIS into the curriculum was examined with the reference to the Michigan geography content standards and benchmarks. …

Geography Newsletter, Spring 1997, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Geography enrollments and Majors: The Numbers Game
-- New Computer Lab, GIS Activities, and Summer Field Course
-- GAI Leadership Change
-- Professional Development Leaves
-- New Graduate Students Since Fall '95
-- Recent Geography B.A. Graduates
-- Purple and Old Gold Awardees
-- Alumni Album
-- Alumni Survey
-- Outstanding Geography Alumnus Award for 1997
-- Janice M. Clark Memorial Scholarship
-- Spring Awards Banquet: Friday, April 18, 1997

Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology

WKU Administration Documents

Annual report created by and about WKU Geography & Geology.

Geography Newsletter, Spring 1996, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- New Geography Major With environmental Emphasis
-- Revisions fit the Program Certificate in Cartography and GIS
-- Visiting Faculty Member Spring 1996: Dr. Tunde Agbola
-- New Faculty Members to Join the Department in the Fall of 1996
-- enda L. Padovan Geography endowment Fund
-- Thematic Atlas of Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa 1990-1994
-- Recent Geography Graduates
-- Janice M. Clark Memorial Scholarship
-- Alumni Album
-- Outstanding Geography Alumnus Awards for 1995 and 1996
-- Spring Awards Banquet: Friday, April 19, 1996

Integrating World Wide Web Searching Skills Into World Geography Information Skills Curriculum, Karla Steege Krueger

Graduate Research Papers

World Geography I students' experiences searching for information using preselected bookmarked sites on the World Wide Web were studied. Fifty-three ninth and tenth grade students in two sections of World Geography I at New Hampton High School in New Hampton, Iowa, were taught how to use bookmarks on the World Wide Web to retrieve information for a European Dream Vacation Itinerary. Students worked in pairs on the assignment. Each pair of students was given 30 minutes of class time to search the bookmarked sites and was required to find one item for its itinerary on the World Wide Web. Following …

Geography Newsletter, Spring 1995, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Geography.

Geography Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Introducing the Department of Geography Newsletter
-- Status of the Department
-- Recent Activities of the Geography Faculty
-- New GIS Faculty Member of Fall '95: Stephanie J. Weigel
-- Alumni Album
-- Our Current Geography Graduate Students
-- What is the Geographic Alliance of Iowa?
-- Geography Club/Gamma Theta Upsilon
-- Plans for the Spring 1995 Banquet

Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology

WKU Administration Documents

Annual report created by and about WKU Geography & Geology.

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 16, No 3 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

Vol. 16 No. 3 (1993): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …