Jp0042 digimap for colleges connect more jisc scotland june 2015

Anne Robertson, EDINA
Digimap for Colleges
A new online mapping service for the FE sector
04/06/2015

Session outline
» Why another Digimap?
» Service design
» Support materials
» Service features
» What people are saying
» Use within a vocational
college
04/06/2015 Connect more with Jisc Scotland, Napier Uni 2

Extending the product line to bridge the gap…
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OS, Historic, Geology, Marine, Environment online
mapping + data download for use in GIS/CAD requiring
individual user registration
OS online mapping for colleges + GCSE & A level
curriculum and vocational course materials available
campus wide
OS and historic online mapping for schools + Key Stage
1 - 4 curriculum materials
04/06/2015 Connect more with Jisc Scotland, Napier Uni

Result – an online mapping service designed for the sector

Key features
» Online mapping service
» Ordnance Survey digital map products for all of GB
» Variety of zoom levels inc OS MasterMap, building footprints
» Annotate maps with text, markers, areas, photos, graphs
» Measure distances, areas, buffer points and lines
» Save annotations
» Create maps as pdf and jpg for printing and insert
» Variety of help materials

Key features
» Whole of college resource – vocational and cross curricular
» Not just for Geographers! Starting point for presentation of many
types of information & use of ICT in learning
» Browser based, no software installation, no data management
» Most popular current browsers Chrome, IE, Safari, Firefox
» Smartboards, desktop pcs, laptops
» Touch enabled – Safari on iPads
» Easy campus IP access, click Start and you’re off!

Learning resources

How to videos

Annotating to present their own information

Example annotations

Example annotations
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Figure 6: Land Use Map - Dunlop

Example annotations

Students using maps to present information

And even for your college use too

What people are saying
Happy users
‘We added a direct link (and banner) to Digimap on the Public
Services Course in ourVLE. In addition we promoted the resource
to all relevant teaching staff and offered training as required (we
haven’t had to do any training as Digimap is very intuitive).
They appear to be delighted with the service. I believe they are
using the maps for outdoor expedition/orienteering related
activities.’
Graeme Hodge, eLearning Resource Manager, North East Surrey College of Technology, 22
January 2015
I know that our public services staff have been using it, I think they
were making maps for expeditions with their students.Our
Geography staff also use it, we even have a chilcare assessor who
has used it with her students to check amenities close to their
placements.
Melanie Cook, Gower College Swansea, 20 February 2015

David Scott
Head of Learning Centres and Financial Support
Kirklees College
» 20,000 students
» 13 curriculum areas
» Vocational no A’ level’s
» 10% of courses include on-line (FELTAG) module
» Construction department, early adopters

Examples of usage
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» We can get them to upload a 'suitable' site for their proposed development and we can get them to consider things
like site constraints, access, services in the road to be avoided, planning traffic routes while the work is in progress,
information to be supplied to the PlanningAuthority (Block Plans, Location Plans etc.)
» Students can also see the orientation of buildings relative to North South so important these days when allowing
for solar gain
» By looking at maps they can also consider whether the area has been well planned in their view or if they can
deduce compelling reasons why the layouts are as they are
» They can also try and think why certain plots have been left vacant (access, geology, mining, heavily wooded)
» They can also be used to explain the use of grid references as part of surveying
When students are doing a project we teach them about the impact
of the construction work on surrounding areas for instance:

Benefits to students and the future
Benefits
» Digital literacy
» Relevant to course work
» Take the resource back in to industry and the
work place
» Interesting content for on-line learning encouraging
student take up of blended sessions with regard to
FELTAG
The Future
» Targeted promotion to other curriculum areas (e.g.
land based and travel and tourism)
» Use cross-college as an example of best practice re:
FELTAG and blended learning

Improving the spatial literacy of tomorrow’s workforce

Join the growing user base
» Simple subscription process
for instant campus access
» Subscribe via Jisc Collections
Catalogue
» Receive email from Edina help
desk once set up
» 189 already subscribed, incl 11
in Scotland
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North East
Scotland
College
ForthValley
College
Glasgow Kelvin
Ayrshire College City of Glasgow West College
Scotland
Borders College Glasgow Clyde West Lothian
College
Edinburgh
College
Fife College

Find out more…
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Thank you!
Anne Robertson
Geodata Services Manager,
EDINA
Email: a.m.robertson@ed.ac.uk
Web: digimapforcolleges.edina.ac.uk
Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND

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