week8

3 March 2010: GeoApps

• • Attendance (Section 62)

  • Attendance (Section 63)

  • Chatzy Backchannel (both sections)

1- Overview

GeoApps are applications which permit learners to connect concepts to geography. Google Maps is a browser-based Geo-application environment, and Google Earth is a software-based GeoApp. We'll explore both and learn how to use resources created by others as well as make our own.

2- Lesson

• 1. Opening Video: "The State of the Internet" by Jesse Thomas (reference this post) - Feb 2010

  2. Review

     1. All "Quarterly Checkup Quiz 1" submissions graded, along with all "MiniProject 1 (VoiceThread) submissions! If you have questions or find an error, please talk with Wes in class or send a WebCT message!

     2. Not all weekly scribe / summary blog posts graded. If you're not "in" our scribes blog, please send Wesley a WebCT message!

     3. New Quizes available in WebCT:

        1. Quarterly Checkup Quiz 2 (for weeks 3, 4 and 6)

        2. MiniProject 2 (either Google Site or Google Map assignment) - Rubrics are coming!

  3. T4T Posts and VoiceThreads to share

• • 1. Lots of T4T FAQ updates

    2. Questions?

• 1. Favorite integration example: Google Lit Trips (by Jerome Burg)

  2. Using Google Earth to measure diameter

1. More integration examples from Google for Educators

   1. Introducing Google Maps and Google Earth

• 1. Crib Sheets

  2. Google Maps

  3. Google Earth

  4. SketchUp

1. Activity: Collaborative "Favorite Places" Map

   1. • 1. Using your Google Account join as a collaborator on our "T4T Favorite Places" map. - Section 62 - Section 63 (view a GWE class' map and another!)

• • 1. Add a place marker identifying your favorite place.

    2. Add content to the place marker using the rich text editing tools.

    3. Advanced: Add an image or other media to the place marker using the HTML editor.

       1. Explore some of your colleagues favorite places...

2. Sketchup & The 3D Warehouse

3- Assignments

OPTIONAL: Sign up online to attend the Monday, March 8th Heartland eLearning keynote address FREE (for UCO students)

• 1. Watch Sam's EduTopia Digital Youth Portrait (7:53)

  2. Write and post a reflection about Sam's video on your T4T blog using our video reflection rubric.

• 1. Create an original Google Map on a topic of your choice which:

     1. Includes at least 10 placemarks

     2. Includes some text, hyperlinks, and images on the placemarks

     3. At least 3 of the hyperlinks should go to a relevant WikiPedia page.

4- Resources

• 1. LOTS more GeoApp resources from Wesley's November 2009 GWE presentation in Austin, Texas.

5- Review

What is the link to your blog reflection from week 8, on Watch Sam's EduTopia Digital Youth Portrait?

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by Wesley Fryer and Karen Montgomery