March 2009
8 posts
PBS's P.O.V. - Borders
PBS’s interactive web series, P.O.V. - Borders, is a very interesting collection of thoughts on borders, metaphorical and physical. It also contains some great teachers’ resources. 
Mar 24th
Diplomacy?
Jason Begy pointed me in the direction of the game Diplomacy for thinking about how to develop an off-line simulation game for negotiating boundaries. Looks like there’s an online version, too. To be explored….
Mar 23rd
5 themes
Thinking about how all this lines up with the 5 Themes of Geography Approach
Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
Introducing Module 1: Boundaries
Boundaries “Boundaries” is both an important geographical idea and rich metaphor for thinking about mapping in a participatory culture. Boundaries— whether physical or symbolic— define difference, decide what goes inside and outside. They are necessarily sites of negotiation. How do we decide, represent, and traverse the boundaries personally, globally, and locally? First...
Mar 23rd
Modes and Themes, Modules and Models (oh my!)
Modules After much deliberation, we’ve developed a guiding model for the Teachers’ Strategy. Using the “Themes of Mapping” Nick laid out earlier (Boundaries, Layers, Production/Techniques/Processes, Personal Spaces, Stories/Memories/Narratives) as overarching themes, we will developing modules that address each of the “Modes of Participatory Culture”...
Mar 23rd
Themes and Modes: Categorizing the Debris
After going through the materials we collected on our Think Tank Day, Lana and I have been trying out different ways to sort all of these resources. We want to be sure to address the diverse geographic interests brought up in the think tank, from our own angle, participatory culture. So, when we were grouping together materials, our categories fell mainly in two groups: participatory...
Mar 23rd
Putting things together
Hi, This is going to be the blog where we (Nick, Lana, and other NML co-conspirators) document the process of creating the next NML Teachers’ Strategy Guide: Mapping in a Participatory Culture. (Although, as with any introductory blog post, you know things here might change over the next few months as we work.) We’ll be using this space to share ideas we’re having, ask for...
Mar 14th