sagt 14 final
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SAGT Conference 2014 presentationTRANSCRIPT
“When we travel, we travel through an infinity of simultaneous stories….
and maps are a surface over which these stories are played out…”
Emeritus Professor Doreen Massey
“The urge to map is a basic, enduring human instinct.”
Jerry Brotton, professor of renaissance studies at the
University of London
SAGT 2014It’s a sign….
Finding new ways with maps
Alan [email protected]
Work here…4 days a week
3m below sea level….
Digimap for SchoolsDigimap for Colleges
Education Director – Explorer HQ
John Muir Trust
“Going to the mountains is
going home…”
John Muir Trust
Greater London National Park@LondonNP
Mapping at the heart of it…
Previous & current projects (selected)
• I-USE project (statistical literacy) – EU wide• GeoCapabilities – EU wide until 2016 – “what
can Geography do for you….” • Voyage of the Betsey – Summer 2014 & 2015• Rediscovering London’s Geography &
LondonMapper (Innovative Geography Teaching grant) for RGS-IBG website
• GCSE Textbooks for 2016 – chapters on Landscapes amongst others…
This year’s Pixar connectionComing out in 2015
Mapping ideas…
Digital Inside
PaperOutside
From the classroom…
WHEN HAVE YOU FELT THE COLDEST?
The CuillinsInaccessible Pinnacle
Danny MacAskill – ‘The Ridge’
• The film – YouTube• The Making of – BBC Scotland – still on iPlayer
Collaborative Google DocumentIdeas for using the film…
http://bit.ly/11L6MyS
NLS Map release
Local Stories and MapsYour Life on Earth
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141016-your-life-on-earth
Accuracy checking…Shorter term changes in landscape
Images: Ian Ward
Language of Landscape
Maps of your own area…• Tied to stories,
which you write• Literacy Week
Landscape Haiku
Recite this / Canva – app or website
OSLocate – App
Identifying locations accurately
Free: iOS / Android
Nearby.org.uk = Lat & Long conversion
also Fieldtrip GB
ArcGIS Online session
Steve Dunn and Mark SmithGrammar School at Leeds
Voyage of the BetseyArcGIS Online Story Map
http://bit.ly/1nlCEle
Goad PlansMOSAIC Analysis
World GIS Day World Record Attempt
Few Scottish schools have signed up…http://gisrecord2014.jimdo.com/
http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=58f0f7e1cad64c4082bf41f7b521f607
Sign in and edit the map to answer questions
Geograph – image download from search function
Google EarthViewing images in the location they were taken….
Global
Bishop Louis of Kigali: Rwanda
Mapping clothing and memorabilia
Maps of Antarctica…
• Instructions in Dropbox
Year 9 project
Curate a page on Pinterest…• http://www.pinterest.com/geoblogs/
OS Maps
Maps coax their readers into doing the lion's share of the work. They require an act of code-breaking to distinguish the symbols for railway embankments from gravel pits; club houses from cattle-grids; coppice from saltings. They demand close attention to variations in the landscape and navigational initiative. But, as abundantly generous recompense for such active exertion, the bird's-eye view grants the freedom to eschew efficiency, to choose one's own path, to wander, improvise and play among the hills. The freedom to get lost, and find oneself again. By stimulating and freeing the mind, the paper map is loved by poets, artists, hikers, historians, lovers, dreamers.
Rachel Hewitt
OS Create a Maphttps://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/custom-made-maps.html
• Shop allows creation of map image – don’t have to order it, although Darren would appreciate it if you did…
What are the most popular OS sheets?
Top 10 sheets2 million paper maps sold in 2013
1. OL17 – Snowdon2. OL7 – The English Lakes: South-eastern area3. OL24 – The Peak District: White Peak area4. OL6 – The English Lakes: South-western area5. OL1 – The Peak District: Dark Peak area6. OL4 – The Lake District: North-western area7. OL2 – Yorkshire Dales: Southern & Western area8. OL15 – Purbeck & South Dorset9. OL5 – The Lake District: North-eastern area10. OL22 – New Forest
Top 10 OS Landranger Maps
1. 115 – Snowdon2. 90 – Penrith & Keswick3. 41 – Ben Nevis4. 119 – Buxton & Matlock5. 200 – Newquay & Bodmin6. 23 – North Skye7. 203 – Land’s End & Isles of Scilly8. 114 – Anglesey9. 32 – South Skye & Cuillin Hills10. 194 – Dorchester & Weymouth
http://www.bing.com/maps/
Mini Art GallerySlide mounts
Facebook pages for landformsTony Cassidy
Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Search Q
View photos
Info Photos Boxes
I’m getting so cross with teens carving messages on me!!
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Seven Sisters are fed up of being single!
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Cuckmere Beachy Head
Golden Galleon
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It’s about time you sisters had a good night out! Fancy a drink?
I’m terribly sorry! They just love my meanders
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Hi. We are the Seven Sisters. We’re all single except for one! The 5th one; she's married to Beachy Head. We live in Seaford. We erode up to 30-40 centre meters each year, ouch!
Commented on Beachy Heads status, “Loving the sun” So true! The 5th sister: Love Him
By Maddy – thanks to Liz Smith
Open Evening
Where would you take your
children ?
Alasdair Rae
Twitter – map related accounts
Luminocity 3Dhttp://luminocity3d.org/#population_density_2011/11/56.3938/-3.4779
Practical Session#minigeogs
The Professor Illustration: Tom Morgan Jones
Maps as historical documents
Illustration: Tom Morgan Jones
http://map.sepa.org.uk/floodmap/map.htm
All Screen captures made using SKITCH
WW1 – how has your town changed ?Google Drive
Can any topic be
mapped ?
Questions
Thanks
• Add your name to the list for a Dropbox invite to lots more resources that I didn’t have time to show you…
• And get in touch if you want to follow up anything that I’ve introduced you to…
•See you in 2015…
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