http://bavatuesdays.com/google-my-maps-with-rss/ a "b" blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:25:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://bavatuesdays.com/google-my-maps-with-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-78135 An Experiment in Digital Storytelling Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:53:25 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=1984#comment-78135 [...] But it’s also pretty easy to see how tools like this, free tools available from your desktop, can be integrated into college curricula. Studying the Lower East Side at the turn of the century? Compare the built environment of Hester Street from Jacob Riis’s photographs to images of the area on Google Maps. Use Google Maps to explore planning and architecture in urban, suburban, and exurban neighborhoods. What can we learn about Barack Obama from a virtual tour of Hyde Park? Find images of parks in three different European cities; how does their location and construction reflect their usage? Locate five “Chinatowns.” How are they alike or similar in organization? Writing a term paper on the Atlantic Yards? Use Google Maps to show how construction will restrict traffic. The possibilities are endless. Google Maps won’t tell us everything we need to know about any of these topics; but then, no single source will. A virtual tour of a street or a neighborhood can impart a sense of location and feeling that can augment other information on the path to knowledge. (I should also note that Jim is also ahead of the curve on this). [...] [...] But it’s also pretty easy to see how tools like this, free tools available from your desktop, can be integrated into college curricula. Studying the Lower East Side at the turn of the century? Compare the built environment of Hester Street from Jacob Riis’s photographs to images of the area on Google Maps. Use Google Maps to explore planning and architecture in urban, suburban, and exurban neighborhoods. What can we learn about Barack Obama from a virtual tour of Hyde Park? Find images of parks in three different European cities; how does their location and construction reflect their usage? Locate five “Chinatowns.” How are they alike or similar in organization? Writing a term paper on the Atlantic Yards? Use Google Maps to show how construction will restrict traffic. The possibilities are endless. Google Maps won’t tell us everything we need to know about any of these topics; but then, no single source will. A virtual tour of a street or a neighborhood can impart a sense of location and feeling that can augment other information on the path to knowledge. (I should also note that Jim is also ahead of the curve on this). [...]

]]> http://bavatuesdays.com/google-my-maps-with-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-76606 Google MyMaps Now With RSS (= Easy Geoblogging) « OUseful.Info, the blog… Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:26:40 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=1984#comment-76606 [...] Google MyMaps Now With RSS (= Easy Geoblogging) Published November 15, 2008 Neogeography A tweet from Jim Groom earlier this week alerted me to a post he had just written entitled Google My Maps with RSS. [...] [...] Google MyMaps Now With RSS (= Easy Geoblogging) Published November 15, 2008 Neogeography A tweet from Jim Groom earlier this week alerted me to a post he had just written entitled Google My Maps with RSS. [...]

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