{"id":62,"date":"2010-03-26T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/2010\/03\/26\/spatial-literacy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:46:57","slug":"spatial-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/2010\/03\/26\/spatial-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatial Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I was watching a student locate cities on a google map and realized (hopefully) that this exercise is both creating and reinforcing awareness of locations in the Middle East in ways I hadn&#8217;t necessarily considered.\u00a0 He was using Baghdad as a reference and then searching for cities known to be either north of or west of Baghdad.\u00a0 In the process, he is becoming familiar not only with the particular location of Baghdad, but also the relative location of other cities to Baghdad.\u00a0 Have you found Google Maps to be a useful tool for helping to learn place name geography, location, distribution etc.?\u00a0 Please elaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I was watching a student locate cities on a google map and realized (hopefully) that this exercise is both creating and reinforcing awareness of locations in the Middle East in ways I hadn&#8217;t necessarily considered.\u00a0 He was using Baghdad as a reference and then searching for cities known to be either north of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/2010\/03\/26\/spatial-literacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spatial Literacy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-required-response-questions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}