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Picture It!

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Picture It!

Using Social Media to Gather Visuals for the Teaching of Geography

Presentation Overview

  • Why Digital Visuals?
  • Applications in Action
  • Tips for Lesson Integration
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Why Digital Visuals?

  • Easy to Access
  • Timeliness
  • Sheer Amount of Visuals
  • Student Expertise/Interest in Creation and Viewing
  • Opportunity to discuss digital authorship, ethics, and citizenship
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Applications in Action

  • Applications that promote the use of visuals as well as the importance of place
  • Use applications that draw upon students' already existing technology skills
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Applications in Action

  • Instagram
  • Flickr
  • Periscope
  • Facebook
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Instagram

  • Mobile photo/video sharing platform
  • Users post photos and videos for their followers to view and "like"

Instagram

  • New search function allows users to look for photos taken and tagged in specific places
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hashtags
(many that are place/event specific)

Flickr

  • Image and Video hosting website
  • Includes group, discussion, and mapping functions
  • Can connect with ArcGIS Online and Story Maps seamlessly
Photo by nosha

Other Application for Consideration:

  • Periscope
  • Live broadcasting from users all over the world
  • Select where to watch by clicking on a red dot in different places across the world

Periscope Homescreen Screenshot

Other Application for Consideration:

  • Facebook
  • Specifically posts based around geotags
  • See what others are saying and the types of photos they are posting

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Using Digital Visuals

Some Prompts & Ideas for Incorporation
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Tips for Lesson Integration

  • Taking Photos
  • Using Other's Photos

Taking Photos: Photomissions

  • Learn about a concept
  • Find examples of that concept in real life
  • Take and share photos of the concept (different method of knowledge representation)
  • Review where photos were taken

Using Other's Photos: VTS

  • Visual Thinking Strategies
  • Choose a compelling visual and ask: What's going on here? What makes you say that? What more can you find
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VTS Example

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Using Other's Photos: VTS

  • Or, try the "essential" questions of geography to interrogate a visual:
  • What is where?
  • Why there?
  • Why should we care?
Photo by garryknight

Questions?

Now, or reach me at stacey.kerr@cmich.edu, or @staceykerrphd on Twitter
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