Seeing the World Differently with Geospatial Tools

First-Year Seminar

Friday, 24 Aug 2012

Rauch 137

Google Earth

• Expedition of Lewis & Clark, created by Natalie Green, spring 2008
• Philadelphia circa the Constitutional Convention, created by Jeff Snyder, summer 2010
• Plate tectonic evidence, assembled by Jeff Tanen, summer 2012

GIS

• Jewish populations circa Holocaust ver01a.m3vz (author, 2011)
  
  • Sources consulted: http://www1.yadvashem.org/IMAGE_TYPE/8381.jpg & ...8380.jpg
• Enslaved populations, 1790-1860 (author & Doug Scott, 2009-2012)

Other examples of geospatial tools in a variety of contexts

• Augmented reality applications – for example, the Bad News in Bethlehem game played on the Lehigh campus. (Created by Denise Bressler & Dr. Alec Bodzin)
• VisEyes tools from the University of Virginia – for example, Jefferson's Travels & Jefferson's Mail.
• CrimeMapping.
• Flickr map.

Contact info (for more about geospatial tools, teacher ed at Lehigh, etc.): hammond [at] lehigh [dot] edu