The links I have posted as of now all should be relevant to class. Geography 310 Blog and GMU Dept of Geography are self explanatory.
GoogleEarth - GIS in its simplest form. If you don't have it on your computer yet you should. You can do all kinds of stuff with it. Look up your house, George Mason, the Egyptian Pyramids, New York City...whatever. Turn on and off different layers to show boundries, roadways, rivers, national parks...all kinds of stuff. Downside is some of the images are quite outdated. My house for example shows my dads old car sitting out front which he sold almost four years ago!
World Sunlight Map - Map of the globe which shows where on earth the sun is shining and where its night. Updated every hour...I think. I thought it was kind of cool at least.
World Maps - All kinds of different maps of places throughout the world. Should be good for finding maps for our weekly assignments.
Earth Album - GoogleEarth mashed up with Flickr. Click on a place on the globe and it shows you different pictures of or taken in the location you clicked on.
StumbleUpon - For those of you using Firefox this is a really cool extension. It's especially fun if your bored and have nothing else to do. You put in your different interests into your profile and then you can click on the stumble button. It takes you to different random websites other people have flagged who have the same interests as you. I chose geography as one of my interests and I've found all kinds of cool geography sites. World Sunlight Map, World Maps, and Earth Album I found using this tool. I came across another cool one that I forgot what it was but it was a real time map of the globe showing seismic activity throughout the world. Pretty cool.
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