I’m upgrading the resource page for my Google Earth lesson “Visualizing a Safer City”
Thanks to Andrew Field whose recommendation of Wink, an excellent free screen capture program, helped me prepare a Flash-based tutorial to the project files that the lesson requires.
Hopefully, more teachers will have a go at this activity, which has been thoroughly tried and tested. “Visualizing a Safer City” offers students the opportunity to understand the principles behind GIS. The visual nature of the activity appeals to all types of learners and the students will appreciate that city planners in San Francisco will be doing an identical task using similar data sets. The task demonstrates the extraordinary potential of applications such as Google Earth to achieve real and meaningful outcomes without the “tech subverting the teach” (to hack a phrase from Ewan Mackintosh thanks to Ollie Bray!)
Get the tutorials, project files, a video and a pdf guide to the resources in one folder.
I have made a short video to introduce the lesson as well as a PDF guide to the teaching resources. These are available free of charge, together with all the other resources on CD ROM or via email. Contact me if you would like them. (A small donation or a free trial of eMusic via this link or just a couple of your own resources would be nice in return)
I’ve used Ewan’s phrase a lot too.
Another useful resource here Noel. Thanks for sharing. Like the Tranquility overlay too…
Alan
This looks really good Noal - I also like the look of Wink. Can’t wait to try it when I am let back loose in charge of a Geography class next week. Cheers for now, Ollie. PS: I hope the recent climbing photo’s on flickr mean that you have started traing for a good old Scottish Winter, there has been snow spotted in the hills!