Adding context and geographic perspective to primary source images
Choose an image based on your unit of study and start students on the 6Cs of Primary Source Analysis. To add CONTEXT to the discussion (What is going on in the world, the country, the region, or the locality when this photograph was created?), use Calisphere's "more information" about the image. From here, students find clues from the photographic information and start additional web research to determine the location of the photograph. Once research is complete…
GROW a class collaborative map around the primary source image giving it a geographic context.
1. Search for locations in the search box. Click the "My Maps" link and then "Create new map" link.
2. Give your map a "Title", "Description" and mark public or unlisted.
3. Click the blue Placemark icon to pinpoint the location on the map. Drag the Placemark to adjust.
4. Within the Placemark, click on "Rich text" to get the tools needed to add formatted text or photos to the Placemark.
5. To add a Calisphere photo to the placemark, find your photo in Calisphere, right click or ctrl click on the image and from the pop up menu choose "Copy Image Location" or "Copy Shortcut" or "Copy Image URL" or "Copy Image Address" (depending on which browser you are using). Once the image address is copied, go to your Google "My Map" Placemark, click Rich Text and then select the picture icon. Paste the copied Calisphere URL into the address box click "OK" and attribute the source in the Placemark.
6. To embed video such as YouTube or Google Video into a Placemark, copy the embed code from a Youtube or Google Video, usually located to the right of the video. Then go to your Google "My Maps" Placemark, click on the "Edit HTML" and paste the code into the box.
7. To add students to the map, click on the "Collaborate" link when in the Edit mode of "My Maps". Collaborators are added with e-mail addresses. Once students are added, they can use the "Edit" button to collaboratively add to the map.
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Even more information on Maps…
While in Google Maps students can explore other photographs that have been added to Google Maps & Earth via the photo web site Panoramio http://www.panoramio.com/ and Wikipedia articles that have been written about locations on the map. Click the More tab at the top of maps and choose Photos or Wikipedia. In fact, students can add their own photographs to this permanent layer on Google Maps and Earth by creating an account at Panoramio and uploading photographs for approval by Google to be part of the "Photos of the World" collection.
Create dramatic tours by viewing in Google Earth
While in Google Maps click on the "View in Google Earth" link to open the map file in Google Earth.
You need Google Earth on your computer.
To download:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
The "My Maps" Placemarks created in Google Maps will open in Google Earth in a folder labeled "Temporary Places". From here, view dramatic 3D map locations and take a Google Earth tour of the map by clicking the "play button".
Before and After
Students can also create Postcards from the Past of their local communities by finding historic photographs of building or events, visiting the site to retake the photograph and comparing and contrasting the historic photo with the one of today. They can "Placemark" the historic and current photos on a collaborative Google Map, adding a geographic point of view. The photos can also be combined in a slide show or Podcast. Photos added to Google Maps must be online. Students can post the photos they have taken to a web album hosting site such as Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ and even post via their cell phones. Then students
can add by URL to their Google "My Maps".
Cheryl Davis - Acalanes Union High School District
Post Cards from the Past can be used in conjunction with the 21st Century Skills Map for Social Studies created by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the National Council for Social Studies
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/ictmap_ss.pdf
Suggested and example outcomes:
Creativity and Innovation
OUTCOME 12th: Students invent an original piece of work that can be published or presented online.
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
OUTCOME 8th: Use digitized resources to investigate and define political or social issues in the past and then illustrate, through a multimedia presentation, how one such issue relates to their community
OUTCOME 12th: Using sound reasoning and relevant examples, students analyze the historical evolution of a contemporary public policy issue, place it within an historical context, and use a digital publishing tool to report their work.
Communication
OUTCOME 4th: Working in small groups, students will choose an area from their state’s history, organize a storyboard on the person/place/event, and use digital tools to create a presentation that teaches their topic to the remainder of the class.
Collaboration
Outcome 12th: Working in small groups, students will research a current issue and analyze it in terms of historical, political and economic components, various viewpoints, and potential solutions, and create a digital presentation that clearly describes all sides of the issue.
Information Literacy
OUTCOME 8th: Access and analyze visual digital primary information sources and digital maps.
Media Literacy
OUTCOME 12th : Identify and analyze different ways that electronic news sources define and present an issue and raise significant questions about how the different points of view in the news sources might affect how people define and act upon the issue.
ICT Literacy
OUTCOME: Use digital technology and/or networks appropriately to access information.
Social and Cross Cultural Skills:
OUTCOME 4th: Students value their fellow classmates and work with them to complete inquiries about problems of common interest.