Urban Earth City Walkthrus

Those Geo-warriors at Urban Earth have been doing something very interesting. Take a walk through a city, stop every 8 paces and take a digital photograph. Put them together to take a virtual walk across Mumbai, Mexico City, London, Bristol or Guadalajara.

Here is Mumbai in around 10 minutes:

Embed the video!

A video embedded on a page is much more effective and more likely to be watched. This clever video could be used to present a number of key concepts or specific topics - globalisation, crime, conflict, development, interdependence.

An issue in school is access to you tube. This is a personal bone of contention - you tube is filtered at my workplace. Is this to prevent students from wasting time or teachers, or both? Surely a simple system could be set up to allow this resource when teachers log in. This would be differentiation at it's purest. Why am I denied access to this resource which has potential to enhance teaching and learning of any subject. Creative use of you tube is something to celebrate and embrace - to filter it across the school network is like using a chainsaw to do a job which requires a scalpel!!!!