Monthly Archive for October, 2008
The newly revised 360 cities website offers an improved way to view places through immersive panoramic photography. Frank Taylor is one of several bloggers to have given the site a mention.
For Geography teachers the site must surely rate highly in a best of 2008 list. 360 panoramas are nothing new, but the concept of a floating sphere as demonstrated by Digital Urban a while ago has been… Continue reading
Every so often, a perfect day's surfing reminds me of my overwhelming good fortune to have moved back home to the South West. While many of those I shared waves with today are driving in an exhausted state back up the M5, I'm eating cakes at home.
Local creative-type Richard Gregory is waiting with a supporting film crew, and cast of local surfers, for the ideal weather window in which to… Continue reading
My Year 10 class took a well-deserved break today to have some fun with Flickr and the Big Huge Labs Motivator tool. The initial part of the lesson covered copyright issues and Creative Commons, then we got to work with the Motivator tool to create some posters on the theme of urban morphology. No particular reason - just some gratuitous creativity.
Here's some examples:
In case you didn't spot Simon Renshaw's comment on the neo-geography post, why not take a look at some of the Google Maps created by his Year 9 students. Soar Valley Geographers
Classroom Flickr users might like to be reminded of the amazing Cooliris browser. The plugin (which works best in Firefox) adds a virtual 3D lightbox over your computer screen, over which images and video can be dragged and resized at will. It would be brilliant with an interactive whiteboard and is a really good way to find pictures, news stories and videos.
Imagine a lesson on waterfalls...
Launch Cooliris using… Continue reading
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