NASD Social Studies in-service: Wednesday, Aug 22, morning session
What are geospatial technologies?
- Something from yesterday: The flickr map.
- Something you've probably used for personal purposes: Google Maps.
- Something pretty far out: Jefferson's Travels to England.
- And something that is NOT (in my humble opinion) a geospatial technology: animated maps of holocaust history (from USHMM).
We're focusing on just two geospatial technologies: Google Earth (earth.google.com) and My World GIS (free trial download). Google Earth is free; My World requires a license; you will be getting one.
Google Earth
- Who already uses this? How?
- Getting to know the tool
- Search box
- Layers
- How to navigate
- Adding markup
- Let's see samples of what it can do
- So how/why might I want to use Google Earth in my class?
- Placing events in a geographic context (e.g., Battle of Little Bighorn)
- Tracking events across time / geo-space (e.g., expansion of Third Reich)
- Having students construct or edit/extend markup
- Providing a basemap for lectures / worksheets / etc.