1. Posterousvs Virtual Cities Recent experiments and student outcomes

2. Changing Urban Environments Encourage independent study Use digital geographic information Develop spatial decision making skills Student motivation Photocredit: http://etap.com/gis-map/gis-map.htm

3. How does Posterous work?

4. Teacher’s Posterous

5. Student’s Posterous Total ownership over content and design Ownership implies responsibility!

7. Assignments can make use of online content, You Tube etc

8. Easy to attach documents, audio clips, photos etc.

9. Cross platform (update from a phone / iPadetc)

10. RSS Reader enables teacher to keep track of student’s work

11. Comment only marking at teacher’s convenience

12. Student is publishing for a real audience including parents, peers, other teachers, SLT, Ofstedetc

13. Learners more likely to improve their work after feedback

15. No direct control over what student publishes

16. Some will be reluctant to engage

17. Plagarism

18. Marking is done intermittently

19. Chasing up non-compliance

21. Virtual Cities Street View Open Space Google Earth Princesshay virtual tour

22. Virtual Cities Street View Homework: Use Google Maps and Streetview to identify four locations in the CBD of Taunton or Exeter. You have to illustrate the core, frame, a zone of improvement and a zone of decay. Make a screenshot, crop it and upload to Posterous, with a brief description to accompany your choice of images. Chloe’s work

23. Virtual Cities Open Space Assignment: There are two objectives of this task: You can demonstrate that you know how to recognize different urban zones on an OS map. You can describe what the different urban zones are like. Your task is to try and identify the CBD, inner city, suburbs and rural-urban fringe using examples from a UK city. Present your work as labeled maps and photographs. Toni’s work

24. Virtual Cities Google Earth Task: Identify the rural urban fringe of Taunton and create a land use map using coloured polygons to illustrate the main land uses. Exemplar work

25. Virtual Cities Princesshay Extended assignment: This task is about the Princesshay redevelopment in Exeter's CBD. Follow this link. You have a week to complete the assignment including an hour in the LRC. Please upload your work to Posterous. Becky’s work / Tom’s work

26. Virtual Cities vsPosterous Get in touch… @noeljenkins NJenkins@educ.somerset.gov.uk Acknowledgements: Thanks to Chloe, Toni, Tom and Becky for the use of their work as exemplars. Land use mapping around Taunton based on an idea by Mark Latchford. Noel Jenkins October 2011 #geographyriot