Connect. Experience. Understand. myWorld Geography program is a revolutionary new program that blends technology, integrated hands-on activities, and a student text. It takes users on a one-of-a-kind journey around the globe and through history in a way that provides all students multiple ways to Connect, Experience, and Understand the content they are learning: to the lives of 22 teens from around the world.
We are living in an era of receding glaciers, accelerating loss of species habitat, unprecedented population migration, growing inequalities within and between nations, rising concerns over resource depletion, and shifting patterns of interaction and identity. This website provides 11 geographic investigations aligned to the geographic questions in the NRC Understanding Our Changing Planet report.
This has some interesting attempts at classroom projects....the presentation was rookie, which distracted me no end. poor prep and most of the effort seems to be focused on polling the class on a web page or via sms. Not really a good use of mapping or polling. Still, look over the site for what is useful.
Having said that, check out the hosting org site...see above link.
Crowdmap allows you to... Collect information from cell phones, news and the web. Aggregate that information into a single platform. Visualize it on a map and timeline. Search for Existing Deployments More Popular Deployments Expand Window What Exactly Is Crowdmap? Crowdmap is designed and built by the people behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information.