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Tools & resources for geography fieldwork
Updated on Jan 18, 13
Created on Nov 25, 12
Category: Schools & Education
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Explores the use of smartphones, apps and tools for fieldwork.
Evernote lets you create notes with text, audio, pictures, geo locations, tags and much more.
A microblogging service; Twitter lets you send short messages that can include pictures, videos and location information.
Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) can be used to build online forms used to collect data. The results are returned in a spreadsheet. This tutorial video outlines the process of building a web form.
An example of a Google Form that can be used to collect school weather conditions. Results from this online form will be collated into a Google Drive Spreadsheet.
Storify is a great tool for building a digital story. It allows you to mix text, links, pictures, YouTube videos, Facebook updates and Tweets into a story.
Historypin uses Google Maps to overlay photographs, video and audio to a map. It also lets you overlay photographs on Street View images.
Historypin is a wonderful tool that allows you to pin photographs, videos and audio to a digital map. It also allows you to overlay photographs on Google streetview, providing a comparison between the present and the past. Discover how to get started with this user guide.
This tool gives you that latitude and longitude of any location using Google Maps. Particularly useful for manually adding locations to Evernote notes.
11 items | 8 visits
Tools & resources for geography fieldwork
Updated on Jan 18, 13
Created on Nov 25, 12
Category: Schools & Education
URL: