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This page includes articles, both online and in print, book suggestions, and reports that COGA has found useful in advancing the spread of geographic literacy. As always, if you have a resource to share with the Colorado Geographic community, please email us at coga@uccs.edu.

Colorado Focused or Produced Articles, Books, and Reports

Find your district's education levels, Nancy Mitchell, Education News Colorado, January 4, 2011
Old West Lessons Inspire Students, Colleen O'Connor, The Denver Post, December 2009
Schools Restore Fresh Cooking to the Cafeteria, Kirk Johnson, The New York Times, August 16, 2011

Books

Atlas of Science Literacy, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the "Real" America, Dante Chinni and James Gimpel
7 Must-Read Books on Maps, The Atlantic, July 1, 2011
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, Reif Larsen, review by Gina Bellafonte in The New York Times
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 2001
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katharine Harmon, Yale Review of Books, 2003
You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall, Colin Ellard, review by Jonah Lehrer in The New York Times, interview on National Public Radio

Reports

Geospatial Information and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Current Issues and Future Challenges, Peter Folger, Congressional Research Service, June 8, 2009
National Forum on Education Statistics
Mountains, glaciers, and mines - The geological story of the Blue River valley, Colorado, and its surrounding mountains, by Karl Kellogg, Bruce Bryant, and Ralph R. Shroba, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1400, February 10, 2016

Blogs

GIS Education Community Joseph Kerski, Ph.D., ESRI
Geoman's Journal, Herb Thompson - Geoman (a.k.a. Herb Thompson, co-coordinator of the Geographic Alliance In Nevada) spent time in South America's Amazon Basin as part of an educational outreach project in support of both the National Geographic Education Foundation and Semester at Sea. Geoman celebrated the 25^th anniversary of his own Semester at Seavoyage and his eighteen year association with the Alliance Network by traveling 3,200 miles up the Amazon River from its mouth in Brazil to its last major port in Peru.
Sunlight Cities: Life at the intersection of cities, towns, open data, and awesome. By the Sunlight Foundation.

Articles in Popular Media

The Agnostic Cartographer: How Google's open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world's touchiest geopolitical disputes, John Gravois, The Washington Monthly, July/August 2010
Apple and Google Use Phone Data to Map the World, Miguel Helft, The New York Times, April 26, 2011
Can Your Data Come Out to Play?, Barbara Fister, Inside HigherEd, January 3, 2011
Computers Turn Flat Photos into 3-D Buildings, John Markoff, The New York Times, February 22, 2010
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?, Guy Deutscher, The New York Times, August 26, 2010
Four Percent of Americans Use Location-Based Services, Pew Internet and American Life Project, November 2010
Geography matters as much as ever, despite the digital revolution, Patrick Lane, The Economist, October 27, 2012
In Egypt, you can switch off the internet but not the streets, Sarah Goodyear, Grist, January 31, 2011
International Monetary Fund "Advanced Economy" Countries - Various Measures of Comparison, The New York Times, February 19, 2011
Is GPS All in our Heads?, Julia Frankenstein, The New York Times, February 12, 2012
Map Upon Map: New Dimensions in What Maps Can Do, Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, November 11, 2008
Pointed Journeys, Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D., The American Surveyor, Volume 7, Issue 2
Private Snoops Find GPS Trail Legal to Follow, Erik Eckholm, The New York Times, January 28, 2012
Mapping Ancient Civilization, in a Matter of Days, John Noble Wilford, The New York Times, May 10, 2010
Miseducation Nation, The Atlantic, November 3, 2010
Scots Aim Lasers at Landmarks, Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, November 4, 2009
Spaceship Earth: A New View of Environmentalism, Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, January 2, 2012
The Public Square Goes Mobile, Allison Arieff, The New York Times, November 25, 2010
The Map that Changed the World, Toby Lester, BBC News, October 28, 2009
The Senate's Health Care Calculations, Andrew Gelman, Nate Silver and Daniel Lee, The New York Times, November 18, 2009
U.S. Teachers Find "Teachable Moment" in Egyptian Protest, Michele D. Anderson, Education Week, February 11, 2011
What's Cooking on Thanksgiving?, The New York Times, November 26, 2009

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Journals

"The Map Proves It": Map Use by the American Woman Suffrage Movement, Christina Elizabeth Dando, Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 2010
Introduction: Global Perspective on Gender-Water Geographies, O'Reilly et. al., Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geographies, Vol. 6, Iss. 4, 2009
Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?, Bernie Rogowitz and Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Research Center 1996

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Teacher's Guide to Modern Geography by the Association of American Geographers

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