Digital Urban have published their tutorial for creating immersive panoramas. I made the short video below. There’s lots of potential for the classroom.
Video features a Banksy image from Digital Urban
The rest of this article is at Juicy Geography Google Earth blog
Rich Allaway has created another mini-site, this time comparing the flooding events at Boscastle and Lynmouth. Targetted at KS3 and also AS level, the resource makes great use of technologies such as Live Local, Google Earth and a new Site Pal character, “Walter Falls”
Rich has included a long and varied collection of resources, as well as pupil and teacher notes. Excellent effort!
The theme of happiness was investigated by a group of UK teachers last year, see Geography Pages for more. The Map Room now reports the publication of a map of well being.
The map was published in an article by Adrian G White of the University of Leicester. The accompanying text is well worth reading for such gems as:
A recent survey (Easton, 2006) found that 81% of the UK population agreed that the Government’s primary objective should be the creation of happiness not wealth. Earlier this year David Cameron, HM Leader of the Opposition, put happiness firmly on the political agenda by arguing that “It’s time we admitted that there’s more to life than money, and it’s time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB – general well-being” (BBC, 2006).
I never thought I’d hear that from a Tory!
A PowerPoint describing volcanic environments. SlideShare version below:
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Or download the original PowerPoint with animation preserved
I’ve been very slow off the mark in blogging for/with my own students, compared to many of my online teacher friends and colleagues. That’s set to change with a new blog:
I’m going to use the blog in three ways. Firstly to link to various online materials that could be interesting or useful to the students. Secondly, I’d like to host some examples of student work. Finally, I’m hoping that it will provide an opportunity for those dialogues that could/should take place outside the classroom but never actually materialize. For example the comments could be used to discuss matters arising from homework assignments, examinations or current affairs. I guess we shall see.
2007 celebrations in 3D
Thanks to Ewan of Edu.blogs for this post about 3D panoramas of New Year celebrations around the globe. He is right that they make superb viewing on an interactive whiteboard. I got students to work out the locations of some of the images using visual clues. The Dubai example is particularly good. The large number of Asians in the crowd make a starting point for discussing the situation of immigrant labour in a country where 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national. (source)
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Panoramas for geography lessons
It all gets even better if you go to the Panoramas dk home page and start to explore. Try the drop down menu in the top right and prepare to be amazed by some of the potential. As a taster, have a look at this image of a weapon search in Rio de Janiero
One of my favourite sites, Digitally Distributed Environments, is at the forefront of this kind of technology. Dr Andy Smith has just published a 3D panorama of a suburban area. This is a brilliant settlement resource:
link to post I link to panorama
Panoramas inside Google Earth
Andy Smith of Digitally Distributed Environments has recently posted about a 3D panorama viewer for Google Earth that his team is developing.
Essentially the viewer allows you to fly into the 3D image which hovers above the actual location. There is a video that demonstrates the concept on the Digital Urban site and the viewer should be ready soon. It’s amazing stuff and I’m really hoping that I can get it working in my classroom, especially as a Digital Urban Flickr group has been set up to host panoramic images. Until now virtual fieldwork has been kind of uninspiring. How about one of Brick Lane Andy?
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