About This Project

We are going to create a media map featuring participants in this workshop.

The instructions in this blog assume that you are familiar with some simple ICT concepts such as browsing multiple web pages, copying and pasting, pointing and clicking etc. If you are in the workshop on the day I will be giving assistance. If you chance upon this blog later and are unsure of anything then email me at s.d.thompson@tees.ac.uk

The concept I'm going to employ is something I've done many times in my work on Teesside but in this instance I am going to use nothing but freely available (web 2.00) applications so that participants will most certainly be able to "try this at home".

For reference here are some of the "Media Maps" from Teesside. Margrove Park have details of the 1891 Census right on the houses where those folk lived. Click on Peter Smith's house (to the right near the trees) to hear a fascinating story of Peters take on the speed of technological change. If you traveled East beyond those trees you would come to the beautiful town of Whitby where we will be creating more "Magical Media Mystery Tours". Meanwhile you may want to take a look at FORCEM to explore the worlds first digital Cemetery Early days yet but Skinningrove are building a heritage trail both in the real world and the virtual world as are Brotton and Marske. You can download a document (pdf) about all this here.

To save time in the workshop I have preprepared a "media map mashup" and set up some of the stuff. If you want to try this at home with your own learning community here is the background info you need. There will be many variations on this theme. As a result of this workshop you will have a password to write to this blog so please feel free to add your own experiences and ideas to this blog and by all means link back to your own Magical Media Map. If you do set up your own Media Map Mashup it would be nice if you link back to Teesside.