April 2009
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MIT Marauder's Map →
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March 2009
7 posts
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OpenStreetMap →
An open-source, user-generated alternative to Google Maps.
Rhizome: Experimental Geography Reading List →
A great list of (sort of heady) readings on various geographic themes.
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Using the Web to Reunite Refugees →
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The Next Episode: MapDevBlog →
Thanks, Think Tank Participants!
The NML Teachers’ Strategy Guide team has moved our posting to this new blog, where we’ll be posting on our process as we put together these materials into the modules of our new Strategy Guide. Follow along there (and comment!) so we can keep this productive dialog up.
We’ll continue to post resources here as we find them, and we hope...
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February 2009
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The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives - NYTimes.com →
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Google Latitude Broadcasts Your Location →
Leave it to Google to create the kind of things that keep me up at night. This is designed as a way to broadcast your location (via your cell) to your friends, but I’m sure this will be taken farther in the future.
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Google Earth 5.0 beta released →
This is the kind of 3D mapping we were discussing. The new version includes the ocean floor and the ability to record custom 3D tours—imagine the classroom possibilities for that!
note on morning subgroup: mapping ideation session
Key ideas:
Global vs. local engagement: Our sense tells us that the local matters, our logic tells us the global matters, and how do we scale up?
There’s an appropriate level of engagement at every scale
Today we’re learning to read maps via making maps—is this a new phenomenon? How do participatory tools and mindsets allow us to link creative and critical engagement?
We need...
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January 2009
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Last thoughts by the Think Tank
Lana shares what she’s thinking that’s come out of this that could be an interesting model:
What’s a strategy? What’s a guide? — project is open-ended enough to have flexible definitions
Not so much create new activities that will be in a guide — go into classrooms and find innovate lessons that teachers are already doing and take an ethnographic...
wrap-up
context for the tsg
nml started w/ the white paper that identified 12 skills and social competencies. we did a guide for reading in a participatory culture. expert-driven. content-heavy. what should a strategy guide be? maybe a process? is it a set of modular activities? a set of links? so, today’s about modelling this process of unconferences as an ideation process. generating a lot of...
mesorensen
Thanks for all the great connections posted today. This is an amazing group
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Harvard GIS →
Good local resource.
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Top Ten (non-Google) map innovations →
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D&G on maps
You know you’re in trouble when you trot out Deleuze and Guattari to provide clarity, but this segment seemed to elucidate something in regards to our discussion on “map v. picture” - especially the first sentence.
“What distinguishes the map from the tracing is that it is entirely oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real. The map does not ...
Mapping and Temporality
Something I keep coming back to in my head…
Maps (and particularly their new media incarnations) are a uniquely powerful tool for visualizing relationships between past, present and future. While today’s media culture tends to emphasize the present, maps have the ability to accumulate media that articulate the transformation of place over time.
Maps are both retrospective and...
What to do next?
I had a great day with interesting and challenging discussions. I heard a lot of fabulous ideas exchanged. What to do with them? I figure one useful (maybe?) perspective I can share comes under my Tom Snyder Productions hat, particularly the marketing one. And with that hat on, I can’t help but wonder: Who is the audience? Maybe the more appropriate question is: Who is the audience that can...
eggplant group
Eggplant group—what is a map?
Maps can do a lot more in geography
Why do we map? What is the impulse
Mapping as a skill or mechanism to interpret the world
Motives for Mapping:
-interpret the world
-make an argument
-to understand something
-to give someone information
Different kinds of maps
-to locate kids metacognitively in a domain(LEARNING MAPS)’’; mapping nonphysical spaces like a person’s...
Educational podcasting →
A good way for students to respond to or synthasize your mapping activities
Some final/initial thoughts
Here are some suggestions on how to focus the thoughts which have floated in and out of these rooms today; most of these are facts-on-the-ground ideas. 1. Partner partner partner… it doesn’t really need to be restated that the ed tech world/market, or whatever we prefer to call it, is massive and sometimes teetering into chaos. I think this project should find partners for...
More ways (and whys) of using cell phones in the... →
8 ways to use a camera phone in education →
Positively the best list of new media/Web 2.0... →
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day is the ultimate repository of new media/Web 2.0 teacher resources. Larry finds new sites daily that are accessible to English Language Learners, with an emphasis on students creating content quickly and easily. Most of the sites he includes are free, easy to use and don’t require complicated registrations. Check out his “Best Of”...
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Do you need to use new media to prepare for use of...
There are tools that can be used to help students develop new media literacies that do not involve using new media, which might help to get past the challenges with availability of and time for using technology, as well as problems when the server goes down.
1. Use of photography, from books? (i.e. Material World, Women in the Material World, and Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel) Students can...
Activity Using Low Tech - cellphone cameras
http://www.santiago.cn/flash/world/indexweb.html
WORLD is an ongoing collection of videos and audio clips captured with a cell phone camera and microphone. These clips are presented in an interactive and random way to the user on the computer screen using Flash. The program allows the usage of XML to retrieve and load dynamically the files required, separating the visual and the audio component...
Mapping without a map
There’s many simple ways to incorporate new media skills and learn geography, culture and history without mapping:
Use Flickr to find pictures tagged with the area students are studying.
Search educational video sites that won’t be blocked at school for content about the culture, language and geography of a particular area (among other things).
Use Google News or a major newspaper...
Tropical America
Non-linear thinking that encourages the discovery of the relational connections between concepts, people and ideas are at the core I think of what we are discussing; we don’t need technology tools to explore this.
An example is this game or interactive narrative:
www.tropicalamerica.com
Students where given 12 historical lectures (during 1 year) of key moments in the history of Latin America....
“To what degree do you have to have new media to teach new media?”
– Anne
Explorations of "Mediated Cultures"
There’s something for everyone in here — one of the most fascinating YouTube videos about YouTube and evolution of participatory culture:
http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm
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PREJ Team
JD: More gravitating toward this is b/c I have been involved in many different projects and involved in more informal learning and incorporate transmedia strategies and new technologies to teach informally history, lit, etc — but those things seem to not coincide with what is going on in t
Disconnect: Technical problems
Realistic Pitfalls
* download software is controlled by...
E-pals →
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Rumsey's Historical Maps →
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Google Lit Trips →
GapMinder
Yet another resource, via Maggie - great way to merge data sets with maps.
Gap Minder
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Mapping the NMLs to Resources
Google Lit Trips and Rumsey’s Historical Maps
Takes the teacher to a whole to new world, needing to visual, connect it. What Henry mentioned about film experience.
Overlay map of how geography has changes, drawing from a lit book. It clicked..
Rumsey historic map, peel the layers of history off.
Why they do what do because of where they live
Humanities connection
Reinforce real world...
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Maps can do a lot more than geography
Howard: We’re trying to get away from maps as just products
What is the diagrammatic impulse that makes us make maps? Is it a culturally inherited norm? The human nature for connection?
Need to get kids to “get it in their gut”: the reasons we map
Ian: Google Maps/Earth: political boundaries, static, doesn’t show how things came to be
Jesse: All maps are in some way...
Heterotopia →
These are spaces of otherness, which are neither here nor there, that are simultaneously physical and mental, such as the space of a phone call or the moment when you see yourself in the mirror.
Phantom Toolbooth →
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“A map is something that helps you make sense of something”
– Dock/Silvia
Crowdsourced maps
How do you manage crowdsorcing in maps?