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• Let's go outside! Scaffolded geocache activity
• Back inside: Debriefing, reviewing, discussing; what are the instructional implications? Things to address
  • Investigating our geo-locating tools. We have a 'dry' tool (the hardware) and a 'wet' tool (our brains), plus organizing frameworks (cardinal directions; equator & PM)
    • How does a GPS work?
    • How did our GPS equate with the popular usage of the term? ("I don't need a map--I have a GPS in my car") 
    • What else can a GPS do?
    • How did we orient ourselves outside? What cues did we use? 
    • Did we think in terms of N/S/E/W or Eq/PM? Did anyone make an 'airplane'?
  • Investigating the display & markup tool (Google Earth): What does that file look like? How did I make it? How can you make one yourself?
    • kml file of geocache locations
  • Extending the activity: Geospatial awareness/skills --> inquiry --> community investigation.
    • Broughal 'sewers' unit -- view the full documentation , if you wish
    • Local history activity on Henry Noll. We've documented it via a Wikipedia entry ; see also the Lehigh "Beyond Steel " archive project
  • Remaining time: Playing with Google Earth
  • And an FYI: What we did was not geocaching, it was a scaffolded geocache. See geocaching.com for the real thing.

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Before class: Work on GIS assignment. Continue reading in NRC, 2008.

During class (ppt )

• Housekeeping:
  • I'm still getting caught up on grading for my other class; your Google Earth assignments are (unfortunately) behind that.
  • How are things looking on the GIS dataset assignment? Does anyone need until next Thursday to turn it in?
• Pedagogical stances: Inquiry v. didacticism; geospatial tools and inquiry
  • Doing it for ourselves: Rocket activity
  • Discussion of pedagogy / role of inquiry
  • Doing it with K-12 instructional materials: Energy analysis activity from Bodzin's energy unit (sweet pic on the opening page, btw). We'll be looking at just 3 out of 33 days of instruction
    • solar energy-we'll do the 'Where is the best place to locate a new solar plant?' activity-just the 2nd day.
    • fossil fuels--we'll do the natural gas lesson.
    • culminating activity: energy policy. (We're not doing this, just looking at it.)
  • De-brief. How does this connect to policy work or public awareness campaigns?
  • Interesting new context: Augmented reality

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Before class

• Complete GIS assignment, turn in. If you need until Thursday: Email me please!
• Read Dunleavy, Dede, & Mitchell, 2009 (augmented reality), so some WTL

During class (ppt )

• Housekeeping
  • Sign-up for Thursday meetings. This time, do all 6 items on the form .
• Conceptual work: Talking about maps, in four passes
  • Quickie overview of visual design
    • ...apologies for repeating items from TLT 406, but they're necessary stage-setters
    • To discuss correlation vs. causation, in addition to Snow's cholera map, I'm lifting a map from this article about maps and advocacy in The Economist.
  • Map design issues, examples
    • Lehigh Packer campus map.
    • I'm pulling some 'grids' from USGS.gov (with inspiration from Ann B.)
    • Subway maps
      • official map from MTA.
      • un-official map from SPUI.
      • Washington-area Metro map from WMATA.
    • Taxi maps from DC from designorati.
  • Warming up to maps and advocacy
    • Examples of (causal-use) geospatial / visualization tools, examples
      • NYTimes' visuals to summarize World Cup games. Example: England-US, 12 June 2010 .
      • Flickr
        • flickr.com/map -- more than 80 million geotagged images! (Warning--this thing tends to crash my browser. I'm using Firefox, so perhaps try something else?)
        • Example of a group's pooled images placed on a map: Islam group's map.
      • Playing with space and time: animation of immigration, 1820-2007 (note that there ARE bugs/errors in this thing)
      • Playing around with unconvention uses of data: "Seven Deadly Sins"visualizations from KSU (can also get the dataset and documentation from same site).

• • • Playing with perception
      • Jamestown maps
        • Conventional, old-school textbook view.
        • Jamestown in context of Native American settlements.
        • Even more context: similar info in a Google Earth overlay, courtesy of the Virginia Center for Digital History's "Virtual Jamestown" project (UVA)
      • Maps of the Middle East
  • Examples of maps used in advocacy
    • Eastern Garbage Patch
      • article in LA Times.
      • Google Earth overlay.
      • ...and as an example of how tough this issue is to explain, see the Discussion section of the relevant Wikipedia page: Does it really exist? What does it look like? Why doesn't it show up in satellite imagery? How could written descriptions of naked-eye observation be true?
    • A variety of cartograms from WorldMapper; see their entire index of cartograms here.
    • US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Materials on Darfur , Congo .
    • Gulf oil spill: data from Google , advocacy from Defenders of Wildlife .
    • Not explicitly advocacy, but still very political, something to watch for the uses of in the media: Afghanistan mineral survey --the pdf I'll be showing is here .

After class

• Sign up for Thursday meeting, and don't forget that the 1:00-1:20 slot is saved for Japera's presentation.
• No reading
• Assignments: If you haven't already, complete the GIS assignment and turn it in. Prep for Thursday meeting by working on final project. Can you come with a mock-up of some visuals?
  

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