Year Six Blog » Lake District http://yearsix.chorltonparkblogs.net Just another Chorltonparkblogs.net weblog Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:13:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Lake District Flooding http://yearsix.chorltonparkblogs.net/2009/12/10/lake-district-flooding/ http://yearsix.chorltonparkblogs.net/2009/12/10/lake-district-flooding/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:47:26 +0000 Mr Sutton http://yearsix.chorltonparkblogs.net/?p=214 We started our Big Question on the Lake District before all the flooding happened. We looked at these amazing images of the floods on Stridingedge.net and plotted some of the locations on Umapper. if you click on the markers you will see photos taken at these places. This is Harry’s map.

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This map was made by Billie.

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Ella used http://www.umapper.com and written instructions in html to link to the webistes

]]> http://yearsix.chorltonparkblogs.net/2009/12/03/map-of-outdoor-pursuits-centres/feed/ 2 Digital Map Skills and our Lake District Big Question http://yearsix.chorltonparkblogs.net/2009/11/25/digital-map-skills-and-our-lake-district-big-question/ http://yearsix.chorltonparkblogs.net/2009/11/25/digital-map-skills-and-our-lake-district-big-question/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:36:26 +0000 Mr Sutton http://yearsix.chorltonparkblogs.net/?p=204 Year 6 have been using Quikmaps to annotate a digital map. We are learning how to add hyperlinks and images to maps using some simple html tags. This map is Mr Sutton’s example. We will be putting up the children’s maps over the next couple of weeks.

By combining data from different sources (maps from Google, images from Flickr, and our own text and hyperlinks) we have created a “mashup”. Mashups are really useful because we can take data such as a digital map and edit it for our own purposes. For example, we could create themed maps for tourism showing popular tourist spots (remember last week’s lesson where we used Twitter to get suggestions for favourite Lake District tourist spots). We could also try and map the impact of the Lake District floods using news sites to find places that had been affected. perhaps we could use this to highlight the problems that the area is facing and do a bit of fundraising. Ideas please.

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