December Update

This is always one of the busiest months for our school and classes and finding opportunities to contribute and add to our Parkland Place Based Map has been difficult. We have been organising our equipment, finding and discussing opportunities for the new year to get back out and to continue to collect our images, videos and media.

The weather also makes it hard for the classes to get outside and to be in nature.  Its been cold and rainy over here and so there have been a few cancellations and postponements of activities until some better weather shows up.

We have also taken this time to organise our Google Drive to store and archive footage, images and content from our field trips into Teacher Folders, and then in Dated Folders

This is going to help us a lot later in the year when we need to find images, videos and other media quickly to publish and share to our Google My Maps.

Overall, December has been busy, but we've made lots of behind the scenes progress.

Software, Apps and Extensions with our SETBC Grant

Having the software available to support your goals is essential for a successful project.  Our main software for the project has been to use the following applications and apps:

1) iMovie on our Mac Laptops, which allows us to import our pictures, videos and other content (time-lapse) from our GoPro Cameras onto the laptop for editing and publishing.  We have been using this pretty effectively so far, to create simple videos to publish on youtube, to capturing time-lapse videos and then to speed them up, like this video here:

2) We have also been using the GoPro Apps (Android and Apple) which allows us to pair each GoPro camera to a smartphone and then be able to view live images through the gopro camera on our phones, which means we can check and see how things look!  It also allows us to share and extract videos, images and content without having to hook the GoPro cameras up to our laptops, saving some time and a few extra steps:

3) Finally, we have been using Google My Maps (mymaps.google.com) to collect and connect all of our content, videos, images, descriptions, locations, annotations, layers, and distance markers onto our shared, collaborative map: