Useful Web 2.0 tools in secondary geography

GTAQ Conference28 July 2012

Contact

Mick Law

0431 665 879

info@contoureducation.com

What? Collaborative

Shared – “the cloud”

Engaged

Community

Scribble maps Google Maps as base

Easy to draw, write or add images, markers, lines or shapes to the map

Talks to Google Maps and Earth

Talks to GPS (both ways)

Can import ESRI files

Pro version is free as well

Sharing field work ideas/locations

Google Maps As before

Sharing capability

Integration with Google Earth

Go to www.contoureducation.com for a booklet and links to a Google Maps YouTube playlist

Dropbox 16GB of free storage

Accessible from any computer with internet access (phone, tablet, laptop, desktop)

Evernote Captures everything on all devices and saves them

for you for later!

You see a useful news article while using your phone on the bus

You come across a review of a restaurant you’d like to visit later

Education Queensland’s ICT policy for non-GITC

approved vendors

http://education.qld.gov.au/strategic/eppr/ict/ictpr006/procedure.html