Posterous versus virtual cities

Posterousvs Virtual Cities
Recent experiments and student outcomes

Changing Urban Environments
Encourage independent study
Use digital geographic information
Develop spatial decision making skills
Student motivation
Photocredit: http://etap.com/gis-map/gis-map.htm

How does Posterous work?

Teacher’s Posterous

Student’s Posterous
Total ownership over content and design
Ownership implies responsibility!

Benefits of Posterous
Ease of setting homework
Assignments can make use of online content, You Tube etc
Easy to attach documents, audio clips, photos etc.
Cross platform (update from a phone / iPadetc)
RSS Reader enables teacher to keep track of student’s work
Comment only marking at teacher’s convenience
Student is publishing for a real audience including parents, peers, other teachers, SLT, Ofstedetc
Learners more likely to improve their work after feedback
Encourages uncontrived peer assessment and constructivist learning attitudes amongst learners

Cons of Posterous
Home access to ICT issues
No direct control over what student publishes
Some will be reluctant to engage
Plagarism
Marking is done intermittently
Chasing up non-compliance
E-safety issues?

Virtual Cities

Virtual Cities
Street View
Open Space
Google Earth
Princesshay virtual tour

Virtual Cities
Street View
Homework: Use Google Maps and Streetview to identify four locations in the CBD of Taunton or Exeter. You have to illustrate the core, frame, a zone of improvement and a zone of decay.
Make a screenshot, crop it and upload to Posterous, with a brief description to accompany your choice of images.
Chloe’s work

Virtual Cities
Open Space
Assignment: There are two objectives of this task:
You can demonstrate that you know how to recognize different urban zones on an OS map.
You can describe what the different urban zones are like.
Your task is to try and identify the CBD, inner city, suburbs and rural-urban fringe using examples from a UK city. Present your work as labeled maps and photographs.
Toni’s work

Virtual Cities
Google Earth
Task: Identify the rural urban fringe of Taunton and create a land use map using coloured polygons to illustrate the main land uses.
Exemplar work

Virtual Cities
Princesshay
Extended assignment: This task is about the Princesshay redevelopment in Exeter's CBD. Follow this link. You have a week to complete the assignment including an hour in the LRC. Please upload your work to Posterous.
Becky’s work / Tom’s work

Virtual Cities vsPosterous
Get in touch…
@noeljenkins
NJenkins@educ.somerset.gov.uk
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Chloe, Toni, Tom and Becky for the use of their work as exemplars.
Land use mapping around Taunton based on an idea by Mark Latchford.
Noel Jenkins October 2011
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