Archive for the 'Geography' Category
Jan
21
Digital mapping in the classroom
January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is the start of a longer post, but at the moment it’s just a collection of weblinks to support my talk at Teachmeet this evening: 1. Asking your Twitter network for direction in a local studies context. What would visitors to Woolton want to know? http://visit.springwoodheath.net/2009/09/17/visit-woolton/#comments 2. Asking your Twitter network for their favourite [...]
May
21
A great mapping tool
May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
I seem to blogging a lot about new tools at the moment, and here’s another great one. I have to thank Ian Usher (he of the very large camera) for this one who tweeted the suggestion to look at it while I was talking about Mapwing at Teachmeet. Sign up is free, although, as is [...]
May
2
Mapwing – a fantastically cool tool
May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Kudos to Mark Ward at Aintree Davenhill for being the first Creative Blogs school to get a virtual tour done using the fantastically cool Mapwing website. Mapwing is a free service (there is a premium version with lots of extra features, aimed mainly at corporates) that, as is obvious from the above, allows you to [...]
May
17
Embedding Maps
May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Quikmaps is an excellent Google Maps mashup that allows users to easily add their own edits to a map. The map below shows a map of all schools that use Creativeblogs.net for their school’s blogsite. I’ve simply dragged a tag on to the correct location for each school, and since Quikmaps supports html code, I’ve [...]