Global Awareness through Geotagging: Creating and Using Digital Photo Maps

This was an interesting session based on the ideas of placing pictures that you have uploaded to Flickr on to Google maps. You sign up for a Yahoo account to get a Flickr account, and then sign up for tripper map.
When you upload your pictures to flickr you have to add geotags. The geotags can be the name of the location or the latitude / longitude coordinates. You could use you GPS system to find the coordinates.
When you open tripper map, it connects with your flickr account and places any pictures that you have tagged with geotags on the map.
Community Walk is another geotagging program.

25 ideas for integration into your curriculum

• Baby photos, place of birth
• Plan a trip in groups, find famous places for the map – travel distances, climate
• History lesson – PM birthplaces
• Science lesson region where dinos were found
• Current events – past location of Olympics
• PenPals
• Track natural disasters, location of tornados
• Select potential colleges
• Track a band’s concert tour
• Local area for a run
• Environmental issues – take a walking tour in town
• Find images from recent movies, where were they filmed
• Money around the world – currency – where in the world is george
• Where things are manufactured
• School map of sports events
• Make drawings of native Americans, Oregon trail
• Use a map in combination with collaborative projects
• Virtual Fieldtrips
• The picture launches a website, virtual tour of that a

Another good idea that I will be sure to try.