DEFINITION
A Geo-Map media project can include text, hyperlinks, images, and videos connected to locations on virtual maps. Geo-Map projects can provide windows into events, concepts, places and stories which join disparate media elements into a cohesive digital narrative.
WORKFLOW
Initial Setup
- Create web accounts on the websites you plan to use in your project.
- Download software (if required) you’ll use for your project.
Ongoing Use
- Plan your project with a storyboard and script.
- Collect media artifacts you want to include in your project.
- Create your Geo-Map and share it.
TOOLS
- Mapstory (web-based)
- Google Maps (web-based)
- Google Earth
- Meograph
- Exhibit
- ARIS (location-based gaming)
- Thinklink
- Tripline (iOS apps & mobile website)
Many of the other “mapping media” project tools can be used and integrated into a Geo-Map project. Like an eBook, a Geo-Map project can become a coherent aggregation or collection of different media artifacts. Additional tools are linked on the Geo-Storychasing workshop curriculum.
EXAMPLES (educator-created)
- Google Lit Trips (Jerome Burg)
- The Brady Bunch Guide to Hawaii (Google Maps)
- Trayvon Martin case (Meograph team)
- Newspaper Map
- Hiroshima Archive (Hidenori Watanabe – more info)
- GeoHistorian Project (Kent State University’s Research Center for Educational Technology)
- The Plan for Lansdowne Park (Thinklink)
- Harnu (click the “news” icon at the top)
- Murmur (place-based oral history project)
EXAMPLES (student-created)
WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES
- Use Random Fruit Machine to select a country (list sorted with Textwrangler)
- Find a recent article about that country on Global Voices Online
- Create a new placemark on our “Current Events Geo-Map“
- Add a text headline, a hyperlink, and an image to your Placemark
- Search YouTube and find a video related to your current event
- Add another placemark to our “Current Events Geo-Map” and embed the video in it
TUTORIALS
- How to create a “My Map” in Google Maps (YouTube)
- Place-Based Digital Storytelling Modules (from PBS)
- Geo-Apps and Google Earth (Workshop curriculum by Wesley Fryer)
MORE READING
- What is Geo-Literacy? by National Geographic (video)
- Using ARIS to Create Interactive, Multimedia Enhanced Field Trips by Wes Molyneaux (April 2012)
- Visualizing Data in Google Earth (September 2011)
- Google Fusion Tables: Geo-spatially connecting database data (September 2011)
- iGeography by Jenny Ashby (Workflows for Learning with iPads – April 2012)
- Other Geography-related posts on Moving at the Speed of Creativity
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
A Geo-Map media project can include text, hyperlinks, images, and videos connected to locations on virtual maps. Geo-Map projects can provide windows into events, concepts, places and stories which join disparate media elements into a cohesive digital narrative. Geo-Map projects are not just for social studies! Learn in this workshop how to connect reading, writing, real-world math data, science, and more to “place locations” and create engaging project or assignment opportunities for students.
* Image attribution: Digital drawing created by Wesley Fryer on Brushes for iPad
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Tom says:
September 6, 2012 at 10:09 am (UTC -5 )
I always liked the ability in Exhibit to combine GMaps and interactive time line features. I’ve done lots of work with it over time and while setup can be intimidating the ability to feed the site through a Google From or spreadsheet makes student content addition pretty easy.
Wesley Fryer says:
March 27, 2013 at 10:48 pm (UTC -5 )
Awesome, thanks for sharing Exhibit. I hadn’t seen that before. I added this link under tools on this page.
Andy Boatman says:
December 8, 2012 at 9:51 am (UTC -5 )
I have created a how to guide on Google Earth and creating a quick “Lit Trip” using the lyrics to Get Your Kicks on Route 66″. The files are on Google Drive at https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B8XA0n69uBMON1k5YnRFNEpMMFU/edit
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