5. Previous Challenges
Facilities/Resources
• Limited collection of maps and air photography
• Limited resources to keep collections updated
• No storage space or time to organize
• Students are required to buy laptops -- but most
classroom use typically restricted to word processing
or don’t allow students to use them
6. Goals
• To visualize landscapes using imagery and topographic
maps
• informative tours
• map overlays
• quick sketches and cross-sections
• To measure useful landscape parameters and observe
and quantify change
• drainage area, perimeter, sinuosity ratio, drainage
density, elongation ratio, rates of erosion, etc.
• To develop computer skills for upper level courses
• To foster curiosity and exploration
20. Web 2.0 Office + Apps
• Google.com (docs, spreadsheet, presentation
• Zoho (writer, spreadsheet, presentation)
Google Docs in plain English
21. Advantages
Free
Do not require hard drive space
Accessable from any computer on any platform
Uniform interface
Enable collaboration
Exportable and Publishable
NO MORE “I lost my paper when my computer
crashed” or “we couldn’t find a common time to meet.”
40. Free Utilites and Services
• Adrive.com 50Gb free storage space
• Transferbigfiles.com
• Authorstream.com or SlideShare.com upload
powerpoints
• Doodle.com scheduling appointments
• Surveymonkey.com great for creating class
surveys
• Skype.com video and voice communication
• incompetect.com/graphpaper/ Create your own
graph paper
RSS
(most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary") is a family of
web feed
formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as
blog
entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
[2]
The term "
Web 2.0
" (in spoken
English
, "Web two point oh") is commonly associated with web applications which facilitate interactive
information sharing
,
interoperability
,
user-centered design
[1]
and
collaboration
on the
World Wide Web
. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities,
hosted services
,
web applications
,
social-networking sites
,
video-sharing sites
,
wikis
,
blogs
,
mashups
and
folksonomies
. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website
content
, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.