Dr. Larry Bedenbaugh

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GOOGLE EARTH, PRIMARY SOURCES, and LITERARY
JOURNEYS

• Dr. Larry Bedenbaugh
• UCF COE Literacy Symposium
• April 2008

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Digital Backdrops

• Digital Book Trailers
• Primary Sources
• Google Earth

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Digital Book Trailers

• The goal is the same as a movie trailerto entice
  and attract audience.
• Students present the central characters, themes,
  or issues of the book visually and through
  written and voiceover narration.
• All trailers should include the title of the
  book, the author's name, and a presentation that
  is both authentic to the text and that works to
  hook readers.

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Digital Book Trailers

• Created with some combination of stills, text,
  video, music, sound effects, and/or student voice
• Readily available software (free or included)
• Windows Photo Story or Movie Maker
• Mac - iLife
• Examples

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Primary Sources

• "A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare
  as to be always valuable."
• Thomas Jefferson
• in a letter to John Adams, 1817
• The Jefferson Cyclopedia,
• J. P. Foley (Ed.), 1900,
• New York Funk Wagnalls, p. 404

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What are Primary Sources?

• An eye-witness account or first-hand evidence
  from an event or topic.
• Original records created at the time historical
  events occurred or well after in the form of
  memoirs and oral histories.

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Primary Sources

• Examples include

• Letters
• Diaries
• Journals
• Photographs
• Manuscripts
• Newspapers
• Government Documents

• Maps
• Speeches
• Audio Recordings
• Video Recordings
• Artifacts
• Clothing
• Works of Art
• Tools
• Weapons

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Why Use Primary Sources in the Classroom?

• Support information literacy skills
• Expose students to multiple perspectives
• Develop knowledge, skills, and analytical
  thinking abilities
• Bring lessons to life creating interest helps
  motivate students

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Selecting Primary Sources

• Interest
• Reading level
• Length
• Points of View
• Variety of Sources
• Location

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Primary Sources

• imagine a public library of the near future,
  for instance. There will be a long row of boxes
  or pillars, properly classified and indexed, of
  course. At each box a push button, and before
  each box a seat. Suppose you wish to read up on
  a certain episode in Napoleon's life. Instead of
  consulting all the authorities, wading through a
  host of books, and ending bewildered, without a
  clear idea of exactly what did happen and
  confused at every point by conflicting opinions
  about what did happen, you will merely seat
  yourself at a properly adjusted window, in a
  scientifically prepared room, press the button
  and actually see what happened.
• D. W. Griffith, 1915
• Hollywood and the Culture Elite How the Movies
  Became American
• Peter Decherney, 2005
• New York Columbia University Press, p. 18

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Online Sources of Primary Sources
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Google Earth
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Google Earth

• Combines the power of Google Search with
  satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and 3D
  buildings to put the worlds geographic
  information at your fingertips
• View in 3D Zoom, Tilt, and Rotate
• Free download (Mac Windows)

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Google Lit Trips
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Google Lit Trips

• Provides a visual context
• Uses Google Earth to plot the setting and
  character travels
• Uses the properties of the Placemarks to provide
  background and link to other web resources
• Can save the files (.kmz) to share

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Google Lit Trips
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Google Lit Trips
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Literary Journey Demo
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Contact Info

• Dr. Larry Bedenbaugh
• FLaRE Center
• UCF - Teaching Academy Suite 403
• 4000 Central Florida Blvd
• Orlando, FL 32816-1250
• lbedenba_at_mail.firn.edu
• http//flare.ucf.edu