Friday, March 18, 2011

Catch of the Day - Dimensions - 3/18/2011

Dimensions from the BBC overlays significant places, events, and things onto a satellite view of any location you choose.

20110311-q8633i34kwu8iduiad8fgjr54p.jpg

The Dimensions overlays can give students a sense of the size and scope of things when related to more familiar surroundings. For example you could overlay the Great Wall of China on the northeast United States and see that it extends all the way from Missouri in the central US to Nova Scotia in eastern Canada.

20110311-kqqdp3ewwu577gk24eu4jtfyf3.jpg

You can choose things to overlay in the following categories:

  • The War on Terror
  • Space
  • Depths
  • Ancient Worlds
  • Environmental Disasters
  • Festivals and Spectacles
  • The Industrial Age
  • WWII-Battle of Britain
  • Cities in History

20110311-dfkdkdq856f29bbtkwybfrrfmq.jpg

Some Dimensions overlays can be transformed into walks, further enhancing the appreciation of the physical distances involved.

Dimensions is part of a BBC effort to find new ways to communicate history. Dimensions originated with a series of workshops and research in the summer of 2009, into what new forms of digital media could bring to the field.

DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0

No comments:

NOTICE TO SPAM COMMENTERS
All comments to this blog are reviewed before being published. The chances of you getting a comment including ridiculously obvious "hidden" hyperlinks to porn sites or other spam published is virtually zero. So, save your time as well as mine, and take your tawdry business elsewhere.