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