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Subject: Re: MAPS-L Digest - 23 Dec 2011 to 29 Dec 2011 (#2011-209)
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:20:53 -0800
From: Virginia R Hetrick PhD <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


Yup, it's a great idea, but from reading the website, it looks like
the families have to bring the kids to the Library. If they'd find a
way to do this remotely, they'd really have something.  I have a
number of friends who are homeschooling their kids and they have great
difficulty finding material they think is important in several areas,
geography being one of them. One Dad told me, "I don't really care if
it's not in the official curriculum, I want my kids to know how the
world works, including all the longest rivers, tallest mountains,
states, state capitols, countries of the world, etc.  (But it's good
to know that he understands this stuff is useful for his kids to know,
even though he's in an academic discipline pretty far removed from
geography.)  ;~)

v
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Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
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"There is always hope."
My fave:  http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.jpg
There's no place like:  34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58' 5.36"
if you can't be at:  48N 6' 59.9" 122W 59' 54.2"
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