Or old smart phones with an app?
Andrew Bell
On 05/12/2013, at 12:30 PM, "Chris Lloyd" <> wrote:
> In the course of a lengthy conversation with a high school teacher mate
> about GIS, GPS and geography (yep, we both need to get a life and discuss
> apps) my colleague mentioned the difficulty of teaching the subject given
> the paucity of equipment in his school. We both realised this issue would be
> sorted as soon as that nice Mr Pine brought in a more equitable funding
> system but in the interim I thought about the old GPS units that many of us
> drop in a drawer when the new one comes along.
>
>
>
> The idea we struck on was appealing to people who use such devices to donate
> their old one to a south western Sydney High School to teach young people
> the joys of transects, point counts and to become obsessed with Eastings and
> Northings (or is the other way round?). So if any of you have an old Etrex
> or similar that is waiting for a new home let me know off-line
> <> ) and well see if the
> good folk from birding-aus can be the effective sponsors of some Jonahs and
> Jai'me (yep it's that sort of centre of learning excellence) coming to grips
> with navigation, satellites and maybe their application to our flora and
> fauna.
>
>
>
> Chris Lloyd
>
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