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March 6, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Blog, Kinda-Academic, Maps, Regions, Teaching

Push & Pull Factors Assignment, Spring 2011

Every semester, I give students a basic assignments asking them to "Rate the States." After they do that, we work through some simple analyses as a bridge into discussing push and pull factors. Here are the results from my Spring 2011 courses at the University of Akron. Read more
5.0/51vote
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Tags: activity, assignment, classroom, exercise, geography, human geography, maps, mental geography, mental maps, migration, push and pull factors, regional geography, space and place, Teaching
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December 17, 2010 Posted by andrewshears in Academic, Blog, Kinda-Academic, Maps, Philosophical Crap, Research

Mapping (Geo-)Autobiography: Travel

A lot of travelers -- and especially geographers -- like to keep track of numbers of places they've been.... countries, states, continents, capitals, everything. It's a nice way to reflect upon past experiences, and yes, of course, brag to one's friends about those travels. A couple of my colleagues, Nick Wise and Emily Fekete, produced what they called "County Life Maps" earlier this year, highlighting the counties they had visited in the United States, and urged me to do the same. I was more than willing to oblige Read more
2.5/54votes
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Tags: autobiography, cartography, counties, county life, experience, geoautobiography, geographer, geography, maps, mental maps, perception, space and place, states, travel, traveler, visualization