<p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small"> </span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman">Lately as I’ve been trying to help students find information for papers and classes, I’ve stumbled across a few new examples of faculty using the web to give others access to visual data from their research. <br /> </span></span> </p>
Lately as I've been trying to help students find information
for papers and classes, I've stumbled across a few new examples of faculty
using the web to give others access to visual data from their research.
Blake Gumprecht, a geographer at the University of New
Hampshire, and author of many works on college towns, provides a number of sets
of images of his research sites on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gumprecht/collections/72157608078951042/.
He also has a nicely arranged group of places: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gumprecht/collections/72157619155499136/.
Of course you can just search Flickr or Google Images but these kinds of
curated collections are really useful.
Martin Krieger, a planning professor at USC, has a web site
featuring his images from his urban tomographies program: http://1000eyes.usc.edu/martin/urban/.
It features a slide show of over 100 images plus maps and more. Not sure what
urban tomography is? Go to:http://tomography.usc.edu/
Not specifically about planning or research, but the best thing I've
found on YouTube lately, is a set of videos on how to study effectively,
featuring Dr. Stephen Chew an expert in the psychology of learning: http://www.samford.edu/how-to-study/.
Aimed at undergraduates there is much to learn from these videos even for more
mature learners, such as those involved in continuing education. (I was put
onto the set by a blog post at the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/MetacognitionStudent/130327/--it may need a subscription).
I'm the director of
the undergraduate urban studies program at Cornell so in coming months I'm
going to be blogging a bit more about issues of relevance to undergraduates in
planning and related areas. My own image collection is gradually going online at http://www.flickr.com/photos/designforhealth/

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