The document discusses how geography education is important but often lacking. It explains that geography teaches students about how different places are connected on a global scale. The document then provides several examples of online tools and activities teachers can use to help students make real-world geography connections, such as using Google Maps for virtual field trips, blogging about different cultures, and video chatting with students in other countries. The goal is to help students become more geographically literate and prepared to live in an increasingly interconnected world.

1. Geography Is All Around UsSilvia Rosenthal Tolisano

2. Geography Is All Around Uspresented at theTeacher2TeacherConference 2010Silvia Rosenthal TolisanoGloballyConnectedLearning.comLangwitches.org

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6. What ?Why ?How?

7. What is Geography ?

8. Cultural geography

9. Physical Geography

10. Why Geography ?

11. Ignorance of how the US fits into the wider world

12. Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?

13. Where is Iraq located?

14. Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map

15. Sudan is Located in Which Continent? EuropeAsiaAfricaAustraliaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaAntarctica

16. 20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia

17. Where is New York Located?

18. 50% can’t find New York on a U.S. map

19. Do you Speak Another Language Fluently?YesNo

20. 6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently

21. Do You Correspond With Someone outside the USA regularly?YesNo

22. 9 in 10 (89%) do not correspond regularly with anyone outside the US.

23. If it is 1 pm in Medicine Hat, Canada…… what time is it in Berlin, Germany?1:00 am, the next day21:00, the same day9:00 am, the same day15:00, the same day

24. As many as one third (32%) would miss a conference call scheduled with someone in another time zone

25. Young people in the USA are unprepared for an increasingly global & interconnected future.

26. Geographers recognize that EVERYTHING is connected.

27. How to Make Connections ?

28. Google Maps-Read Around The World

29. Google Maps-Storytelling

30. Google Earth- Lit Trips

31. Google Earth- Flight Route

32. Google Earth- Flight Route

33. Blog-Defining Japanese Culture

34. Google Maps-Current Events

35. Blog-Teddy Bears Around the World

36. Blog-Teddy Bears Around the World

37. Skype- Video Conferencing

38. Skype- Video Conferencing

39. Around The World With 80 Schools

40. Over 300 Schools Ready to Connect

41. VoiceThread- What Could It Mean?

42. VoiceThread- What Could It Mean?ArgentinaGermanyEgyptChinaUSAIsraelNew ZealandMexicoBrazilSwedenPeruSpain

43. Math Maps

44. Podcast- Flat Stanley

45. Free Rice.com

46. Twitter- Bus2Antarctica

47. What ?Why ?How?

48. Q & A

49. Survey National Geographic- Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Studyhttp://www.myWonderfulWorld.orgGoogle MapsGoogle EarthVoiceThreadWikisBlogsSkype TwitterCredit & Resources

50. Twitterhttp://twitter.com/bus2antarcticaRead Around The Worldhttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105825111945158562539.00044cea8b22d2761f8ce&z=2In Search of Pachamamahttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105825111945158562539.00045af55ff2c192180b3&z=3Google Lit Trips http://GoogleLitTrips.comFlat StantleyPodcasthttp://langwitches.org/blog/2010/01/05/flat-stanley-podcast/Posterous Blog- Defining Japanhttp://grade4.posterous.com/Credit & Resources

51. Teddy Bears Around The Worldhttp://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/teddybearsaroundtheworld/What Could It Mean? VoiceThreadhttp://voicethread.com/share/48359/Free Ricehttp://www.freerice.comMath Mapshttp://edte.ch/blog/maths-maps/Current Eventshttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=101911629947022559812.0004720e3c4dadc2a9d6f&ll=10.487812,148.007813&spn=145.379686,360&z=2Around The World With 80 Schoolshttp://aroundtheworldwith80schools.wikispaces.com/Credit & Resources

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