I’m working with a publisher now to create a series of Raven Tales graaphical classroom readers. One feature of these readers will be background information on the tribal nation who originated the story. I thought it would be useful for the students to learn geographical were a particular tribe lives today as well as the contemporary status of a tribal nation by linking to tribal websites.
Google Earth appears to be a great solution for what I have in mind. So I started by concentrating on those tribal nations who I have been working with in creating Raven Tales and the various outreach materials for Raven Tales – mapping them on Google Earth and linking to their websites. For younger students, moving from point to point on the map and looking at web links and creating summaries of what they found would be the outreach exercise.
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For older students, the exercise consists of locating new tribal nations by name as found in a Raven Tales outreach guide, and mapping that tribal nation on Google Earth and linking to relevant websites. I’ve created a short video presentation as a guide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2IWV24CWHj
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Chris,
ReplyDeleteI love google earth and am almost wishing I had taught political science (my undergrad degree) instead of creative media. If I had, the idea you have is the sort of thing I would do a lot of.
I also like the idea of tracking movements of people (trail of tears), etc. and having the path recreated in a google earth tour, and seeing what the places mentioned look like now. Imagine doing this with lewis and clarks journey, the seventh voyage of sinbad, etc.
I imagine the effect being most valuable in this context as you can see the dramatic effect human 'civilization' has had on the planet. I would love to see something like google earth time machine, so you can focus on a single shot and then see that spot evolve as the shots of it are played in chronological order. Cities built, lived in, dying.