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!
Following a post on my Google Earth blog, I reflected that it would be fun to give students named geographical features and get them to find a representative image which they process using the method described by the Artwork Earth post by S. Fjalar
I put togther a quick example gallery, using the first four terms that came to mind:
I made the above images very quickly using the first four words that sprang to mind. The exercise I envisage is more explicitly geographical than the Artwork Earth images. Elusive images (such as the barchan dune) could be given to students with better spatial understanding, therefore differentiating the exercise. The results could make a really good display, or used as a visual glossary of key terms.
I’ve been experimenting with mapping data inside Google Earth. The latest version of the excellent GE Graph includes the ability to add data to polygons. Here is an example:
The method is detailed in a post at my Google Earth blog.
With peer assessment a currently popular trend, I decided to add a twist and get members of the public to vote and comment on some Year 8 work.
It occurred to me that a basic web poll and blog comments would serve to give students useful feedback on their work. The assignment was based around my Google Earth San Francisco lesson. I’ve mentioned before that the ease with which Google Earth placemarks can be created and shared, makes them ideal for assessing spatially located geographical work.
Go here to my new Google Earth blog to find the poll and the students work. Download the work as a Google Earth file, together with the teaching materials, and vote for your favourite. Leaving a comment would provide the students with additional feedback. We would be particularly keen to hear from any residents of San Francisco!
The students and I would be very grateful for all feedback.
I’ve revised the Google Earth page at Juicy Geography with a fresh new look, revisions to the content, and a blog front end. This should make it easier to maintain the page, which had become to long and unwieldy.
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