Geo Mapping

Slide 1: Geo Mapping: Mash-Ups, Interactivity, & Time/Place/Content Connections

Slide 2: GPS & Web 2.0 • 2.0 is happening everywhere • Second Generation of internet based services • Using technologies to create socially constructed information and sharing • “Doesn’t have a hard boundary but a gravitational core” • GPS adds time and space to information, either synchronous or asynchronous

Slide 3: Mash-Ups • “Mash-ups are websites or applications that combine content from more than one source” • Begins with a mapping program and overlays information from any number of sources • Combines place, time, and information • Provides for user interactivity • Examples of mash-ups – http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups – http://www.gisuser.com/

Slide 4: Social Networking Combining mobile phones with GPS technologies into one application • Dodgeball- – E-mail messages are sent to your friends identifying your location – Locates friends of friends within 10 blocks http://www.dodgeball.com/ • Small Planet- – Emails you messages and lets you know if other people you see are also members. http://www.smallplanet.net/ • Mologogo- – Tracks your friends location http://mologogo.com/

Slide 5: GPS, Mapping, and Web 2.0 in Education • Instruction, application, and practice with these technologies needs to be integrated within all subject areas • Both teachers and students need to be proficient in web 2.0 technologies • What needs to happen: – Collaboration of SME’s, ID professionals, and educators – An examination of current pedagogy, curriculum, and educational focus – Training of teachers • A spiraling curriculum that scaffolds learning needs to be created and implemented beginning in the primary grades

Slide 6: GPS and Geo Mapping Projects in K-12 Schools • Projects that help students understand the world using 2.0 technology • Possible ideas: – Community studies, mapping with local to world wide information, history connections, virtual field trips, digital reports, research projects, field trips with integration of time/place/information, and social networking • Examples of Projects: – http://www.netc.org/focus/examples/mappin.php – http://www.bu.edu/lernet/GK12/alexis/gps.pdf – http://www.vinsweb.org/education/community_map.html – http://www.sprise.com/shs/faculty/Geomapping/geomapping_proj

Slide 7: “How-To” and Resource Sites • Wikipedia definition of Web Mash-Ups – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_ • Short Flikr video: “Geotags and You” – http://www.flickr.com/help/screencasts/vol1 • Extensive collection of resources by GPSy – http://www.gpsy.com/gpsinfo/ • AutoDesk's “Taking you beyond the Map” info/help site – http://www.gisuser.com/ • Yahoo’s Developer Network Home helping you create your own mash-ups • http://developer.yahoo.com/ • Goggle's Beta Map site helping you create mash-ups – http://www.google.com/apis/maps/