Doug Belshaw mentioned Splashr a while back, but I’ve only just had a look. It’s a very convenient tool for displaying Flickr images and while there are lots of different styles, I made this as an example of how it could be used on an interactive whiteboard in a “guess the location” context.
Splashr example
Update:
Here’s another example of a Splashr presentation illustrating a field trip to London.
Doug Belshaw added an interesting video featuring Splashr in the classroom to his blog. I really like his idea of using very brief video clips to illustrate innovative classroom ICT practice! Doug also presents a nice tutorial too.
Photo: XRez
I was fascinated by the ultra-high resolution landscape images produced by XRez and described in a post on Digital Urban today. The photographs are produced from hundreds of stitched together, overlapping images, and the Google Maps interface is employed to navigate around the image.
Several of the pictures would be very useful in the classroom and could make a really interesting exercise based on observation and reasoning skills - for example you could take a screen shot of a detail of part of an image under high magnification, then challenge students to find it, starting from the zoomed out version.
I’ve updated the Diamond Trade Google Earth resource file after the path to the images broke.
The accompanying learning materials can be found at Juicy Geography. This lesson was developed with the support of the photojounalist Kadir Van Lohuizen whose stunning collection of images entitled Diamond Matters is available from Amazon books.
It’s now possible to view the Diamond Trade file in Google Maps, very useful in the classroom if Google Earth isn’t available. (This trick works with many Google Earth files - just paste the path to the .kmz file into the Google Map address bar. Overlays aren’t supported yet.) Click the image below to go to the Diamond Trade Google Map:
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Earth Album is a gorgeous Flickr and Google Maps mashup. Very simple and produces many superb images.
Thanks to Ogle Earth for news about a new Google Earth competitor; Skyline Globe from Skyline Software Systems.
The virtual globe is accessed through the TerraExplorer viewer. There are plenty of similarities with Google Earth, though if I were the company responsible, I would not have made a point of interest out of the old Wembley stadium as it rather dates the imagery! Screenshot below.
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I’ve put together a really simple Google Earth file containing some placemarks for selected geographical features of the Jurassic coast, a geology map and links to Flickr photos. The file can be played as a tour if desired.
Update:
The file has been slightly improved with a couple more placemarks and photographs. I’m using it to introduce coastal landforms, the idea is that students identify the features labelled with placemarks using the picture clues.
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Download Google Earth file of the Jurassic Coast
There is a new network link for Flickr that pulls in geotagged images available here.
This is quite exciting news! Live Local now features drawing tools so that you can now draw over maps and photos. A quick demo here - I’ve guessed the extent of a local flood risk area.
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There’s more about this latest feature at the Virtual Earth blog.
Thanks to Google Earth blog!
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