Example of Tools and Pltaforms for Educational Outdoor Activities

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DIGITAL TOOLS
&
PLATAFORMS
OUTDOOR & MAP
ACTIVITIES

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Marco Neves
● Computer Science Teacher at Agrupamento de
Escolas da Batalha - Portugal
● An eTwinner  (Master Thesis about the “Impact
of eTwinning in Portuguese Schools)
● Scientix Ambassador
● Member of the Google Earth Outreach Trainers
Group
Twitter: @mbrasneves
Facebook: facebook.com/marco.bras.neves
Email: mbrasneves@gmail.com
Who Am I?

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● (lots of) Additional pedagogical value to the
classroom;
● Explore earth, and mars, and the sky and the
moon in the classroom;
● Create, share and promote your work. (Inside
and Outside the classroom);
● Adjustable for any subject: but lots of interesting
(pedagogical) content for Science and
Environment Teachers/Students;
● … and they are free.
Why Google (mapping) Tools?

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Google Earth
● Explore Google’s rich geographical
content;
● Create your own Multimedia Tracks;
● Search for locations using Google data;
● Visualize your GPS tracks and share with
others;
● Show elevation profile (max slope, avg
slope, …)
● Go back in time with historical imagery.
google.com/earth

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MyMaps
● You can create custom maps collaboratively
to share online with Google My Maps - can
easily be embedded within a website;
● Works on Desktop and Mobile seamlessly, with
user/role based privacy - Private, editor's, view
with link only, and public;
● Export to KML for Google Earth 3D;
● Import from Google Drive, Excel and KML.
google.com/mymaps

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Google Maps
● Provides directions, interactive maps, and
satellite/aerial imagery of many countries;
● The most advanced consumer mapping
site available today, integrated search,
directions, places of interest,
photographs, street view, and 3D views
including 3D buildings and landscapes;
● Mobile version provides spoken
navigation, traffic, shortest route,
roadworks etc.
google.com/maps

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My MAPS
● Allows to work within a collaborative
approach;
● Create a map to share information about
your region/country (natural, historical,
environmental);
● Insert data from a shared Google Doc;
● Suitable for embed in a website
(TwinSpace) or blog;
How to integrate it?
Google Earth
• Helping students visualize and understand
the world around them;
• Creating “Multimedia Tracks” with images
and videos;
• Creating Quizzes;
• Comparing neighborhoods and
communities across the world;
• Understanding geography concepts, map
reading, location, and distance
measurement;
• Analyze tracks elevation profile.

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● Create a Collaborative Map
● Open My Maps
● Create a new map
● Add 4 placemarks
● Scandinavian Forest
● Maramures - Romania
● Laurisilva Forest –
Madeira
● Black Forest – Germany
● Share it on Twitter
● Share it on Facebook
#etwoutdoorsibenik
Hands On (1/3)MyMaps

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MAPinr
● MAPinrlets you record your path, speed,
distance, and elevation.
● View live GPS capture data.
● Annotate your path with text and photos
while you record.
● Photographs include direction and
bearing placement.
● Export your tracks to KML,KMZ format
and see them on Google Earth
● Works Offline
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.xylem.mapin&hl=pt_PT

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MAPinr
• Go out with your students and record the
“world live”;
• Automatically exports your tracks to Google
Drive and share them;
• Open your tracks on Google Earth (KML/KMZ
files) and improve them on the classroom;
• Post the results on a Blog/Website or even
TwinSpace for comments.
How to integrate it?

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PhotoSpheres
● 3D PhotoSpheres, up down, all
around, just like Street View
● Can be made public, or kept private
or even just offline storage.
● The photo sphere camera mode on
your Android phone makes it easy to
capture a series of photos and
automatically turn them into a
seamless 360º experience.
● Add your photo spheres to Google
Maps so people can see your
favorite places from around the
world or around the block.
google.com/maps/about/contribute/
photosphere/

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PhotoSpheres
● Using a 360º camera (Ricoh Theta
Camera);
● Using Google Street View App (for
IOS and Android);
● Using Google Camera App (for
Android);
● Using a photo camera with DSLR
feature (and a software to compose the
Photosphere).
How to “take” it?

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StorySpheres
● Story Spheres is a way to add stories to
panoramic photographs.
● First upload a PhotoSphere, a 360-
degree photo you can take on your
phone.
● Then add dialogue, sound effects and
even a music track.
● Whoever opens the scene will get a
panoramic photo with sound and stories
baked in. Better still, on a phone the
photo wraps right around the viewer … so
now you can tell stories that truly revolve
around your audience
15storyspheres.com

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Biology
In preparing an outside activity to acquire prior
knowledge of the place and to know what to
do during the fieldwork;
If is impossible to carry out the fieldwork, it can
be simulated it in the classroom and, here,
the sounds can be associated to tasks or to
document the place;
Geology
• To observe areas of difficult access but useful
in the study of Geology: e.g. steep slopes,
unstable ground;
• To analyse riverbed of different rivers and
compare them;
• To observe different kind of rocky material;
• To document geological places with some
“magic”.
StorySpheres How to integrate it?
Credits: Teresa Lacerda (Biology and Geology Teacher and
eTwinning ambassador.

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● Create(take) a Photo Sphere
● Google Camera;
● Google Street View App;
● Record the sounds
● Record with a SoundRecorder.
● Create the StorySphere
● Upload files (photo 360º & MP3);
● Edit in Studio;
● Preview it.
● Share it on Twitter
● Share it on Facebook
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Hands On (2/3)StorySpheres

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● Free Map Tools
● A collection of free tools using maps to simplify tasks.
● http://www.freemaptools.com/

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Go forward…..
● Arduino + Google Earth
● Putting together the power of Arduino and Google
Earth
● e.g. Project DustDuino
● http://geojournalism.org/
● Fusion Tables
● Fusion Tables is a data visualization web
application to gather, visualize, and share data
tables.
● Open Foris
● Open Foris is a set of free and open-source
software tools that facilitates flexible and efficient
data collection, analysis and reporting.
● http://www.openforis.org/

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For more Information
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/teaching_methods/google_earth
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/education/
https://sites.google.com/site/geomedialab/photo-sphere
http://www.thethinkingstick.com/10-ways-to-use-google-maps-in-the-classroom/
http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/stories/showcase.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kml.php
http://www.realworldmath.org/