Lesson 22: Holiday work — blog design, Google Earth (mapping)In this lesson we'll continue to look at how you're developing your online work and publishing. We'll also be discussing your holiday work relating to Google Earth and mapping, raise
some password security issues and begin work on Wikipedia.To start with, and for much of the lesson, we'll focus on the work done over the holiday: 1) Your blogs: these should show evidence of having been designed and built upon. 2) Your new blog post about Google Earth. You had the option of also looking at Google Sky — either within Google Earth or in its separate web-based version — and Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope.
You should have used Google Earth and its latest functionality so that you were then able to write about your experience of it and
how you see it being useful and interesting. 3) Your teacher may ask you to look at Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World (Wired, 2007) and/or Google Maps for mobile with My Location (beta) (UK, YouTube, 2007). Also, on 15 April Google updated Google Earth: see here for details — and there's a video about the new features here. (There's a longer, six minute, video that's worth watching, too.) Google's mapping projects once again raise important questions as well as creating new opportunities: privacy issues; better understanding, through mapped representation, of complex issues (eg, ecological trends); new ways in which other kinds of data can be brought to bear in maps. Here are some things new this holiday that we might ask you to look at or discuss with us:
If Google Earth interests you there's an official blog, an unofficial blog already linked to above and tutorials
(both in Google Earth and outside it). You could bookmark these now in del.icio.us and perhaps add the RSS feeds for the blogs to your Reader. 4) If
there is time remaining (if not, this will be part of your prep), this is a good moment to discuss how you're handling password security on your new sites/accounts.
This might be the time to
start looking at password manager programs, and here are two
suggestions:
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