Presentation for Digital Learning Day 2015

1. The impact for learning and teaching
of using Digimap for Schools in
Scottish classrooms (and outdoors)
Carol Blackwood
EDINA Geoservices Support
Education Scotland Digital Learning Day 21st
March 2015

2. Putting maps and location at the
centre of teaching Social Studies

3. Thinking about places and maps…
• Did you look at a map to get here today?
• How often to you teach about places and local
area? Do you look at a map as part of those
studies?
• What kind of detail do you need to see?
• What kind of information could you communicate
with a map?
• How would you rate your map skills?

4. • Online mapping
Ordnance Survey current
and historic mapping
• Whole of GB coverage
• Range of scales
• View, annotate and print
• Present your own
information, measure
distances, add maps to
reports, print maps to
take outside

5. http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk
Free Resources - http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/resources
Free Trial - http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/demonstration