Geo-Tagging Project
Geo-Tagging Project (10%)
Objective: To deepen knowledge of the connections between the geography and history of the Middle East using Google Maps.
Instructions: Starting in Week Three and going up through Week Eleven, as you read from Battle for the Arab Spring, Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution, and texts posted on our blog, you will choose two items (people, places, things, ideas, events) to mark with tags, citing the relevant page numbers, chapter titles or sections from the reading and adding “metadata,” including links to outside information (like Wikipedia articles), useful images or video clips, or shapes that denote borders and geographic areas. In the text area on your tags, type a few sentences explaining what’s there and why it’s important. This metadata could even be short summarizations or quotations (duly cited) of relevant information from the texts.
Getting Started: Click here (Links to an external site.) for instructions on creating a custom Google Map, and then follow these instructions (Links to an external site.) to share your map with your instructor. Use my gmail account: c.d.micklethwait at gmail.com
When you share your map, be sure to edit it so that it’s publicly viewable by anyone with the link but can only be edited by you.
Rubric: I will score each item you to tag as follows: 5 points for an accurate, relevant location; 4 points for the thoroughness and usefulness of the metadata (descriptions, explanations, etc.); and 1 point for creative use of the medium (polygons, borders, linked images or video, etc.), for 10 points each. Your grade will be the percentage of these points out of all available points. (20 points X the number of days when we have applicable readings.)
Here is some helpful information on how to use the Google Maps widget in EduBlog.
List of student Google Maps.