Ammon Shepherd - Historical Webber » geography http://mossiso.com History, it happens every yesterday Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:43:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Poster Session at the History of Ed http://mossiso.com/2009/11/18/poster-session-at-the-history-of-ed.html http://mossiso.com/2009/11/18/poster-session-at-the-history-of-ed.html#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:02:39 +0000 ammon http://historicalwebber.mossiso.com/?p=345 At the beginning of the year I was asked to participate in a poster session for the History of Education Society’s Annual Meeting. I have done a few things with...]]>

At the beginning of the year I was asked to participate in a poster session for the History of Education Society’s Annual Meeting. I have done a few things with maps, so I was asked to share resources and ideas for using maps with teaching history.

Not too many people came by, so I only spoke with two people. I had this list of resources for working with and teaching with maps:

History and Maps

Selected Websites

http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/unpacking/mapsmain.html (CHNM’s site on using maps in the classroom)
http://echo.gmu.edu/search/node/map (A list of map resources on the web, collected by GMU’s Echo project)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/ (Library of Congress Map Collections)
http://www.besthistorysites.net/Maps.shtml (A long list of map related websites for teaching history)
http://explorethemed.com/Default.asp (Historical Atlas of the Mediterranean)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ (Tons of maps sponsored by University of Texas at Austin)
http://www.flu.gov/whereyoulive/healthmap/ (US Gov. Flu Map)
http://www.unc.edu/awmc/index.html (Ancient World Mapping Center)
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ (Hundreds of posts about strange maps. Very good discussion starters.)

Selected Bibliography

Brown, Lloyd Arnold. The Story of Maps. New York: Dover Publications, 1979.
Bruckner, Martin. The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Field Museum of Natural History, and Newberry Library. Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Knowles, Anne Kelly, and Amy Hillier. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship. Pap/Cdr. ESRI Press, 2008.
Pickles, John. A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World. London: Routledge, 2004.
Turnbull, David, and Deakin University. Maps Are Territories: Science Is an Atlas: A Portfolio of Exhibits. University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Virga, Vincent, and Library of Congress. Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations. Little, Brown and Company, 2007.

And this Keynote playing on my laptop:

]]> http://mossiso.com/2009/11/18/poster-session-at-the-history-of-ed.html/feed 0 Finished 1989 Flash Map http://mossiso.com/2009/02/10/finished-1989-flash-map.html http://mossiso.com/2009/02/10/finished-1989-flash-map.html#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:43:31 +0000 ammon http://historicalwebber.mossiso.com/finished-1989-flash-map-156.html I had to dig this out of the depths of my computer today, and a quick search showed that I never posted the final version. So here it is in...]]>

I had to dig this out of the depths of my computer today, and a quick search showed that I never posted the final version. So here it is in all it’s glory. 1989 Events

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]]> http://mossiso.com/2009/02/10/finished-1989-flash-map.html/feed 0 WTTGG #4 http://mossiso.com/2008/03/28/wttgg-4.html http://mossiso.com/2008/03/28/wttgg-4.html#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:13:38 +0000 ammon http://historicalwebber.mossiso.com/wttgg-4-110.html This week is much more historical… Goodies #1: Traveler IQ Challenge – Test your knowledge of geography as it is today not 100 years ago (there’s the history tie-in). I’m...]]>

This week is much more historical…

Traveler IQ
Goodies #1: Traveler IQ Challenge – Test your knowledge of geography as it is today not 100 years ago (there’s the history tie-in). I’m not so good. I can’t get past the 6 level…

New York Divided
Goodies #2: New York Divided – This one is all about history. It’s even from the History Channel. It’s an amazingly beautiful animation about New York’s ties with slavery. Very well done.

Randomwocky
Goodies #3: Randomwocky – You’ve all heard the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, and know of the many made up words. I thought it would be fun to re-create the poem using randomly generated consonant-vowel-consonant groupings. It makes the poem even more nonsensical in places, but some of the ‘new’ words are funny!

]]> http://mossiso.com/2008/03/28/wttgg-4.html/feed 0 Weekly Tips, Tricks, Gadgets, and Goodies #1 http://mossiso.com/2008/03/08/weekly-tips-tricks-gadgets-and-goodies-1.html http://mossiso.com/2008/03/08/weekly-tips-tricks-gadgets-and-goodies-1.html#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:14:25 +0000 ammon http://historicalwebber.mossiso.com/weekly-tips-tricks-gadgets-and-goodies-1-92.html I think I’ll try and start a weekly tips, tricks, gadgets and goodies post. It will cover the neat-o things in the tech world that I come across during the...]]>

I think I’ll try and start a weekly tips, tricks, gadgets and goodies post. It will cover the neat-o things in the tech world that I come across during the week that don’t have a whole lot to do with history, but are fun nay-the-less.

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Tip #1: Custom Leopard stacks and drawer images
Tutorial for customizing your stacks icons.

make a new folder, name it “0000″ for sorting by name, or “touch -mt 2020010101 foldername” for sorting by date added.
copy the image from Get Info, paste int onto the Get Info for the new folder.

Add your own image to your drawer using the steps shown here at usingmac.com.

And you get something like above.

Goody #1: Geotag your photos
Check out the Geotag application which is helpful for spatially locating your great photographs when your camera has no GPS built in.

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