Make your own powers of ten video tutorials
Make your own powers of ten video tutorials
1.00 Our Own Powers of Ten Introduction: Taughannock Falls Example
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
This first set of tutorials is inspired by the Charles & Ray Eames’s film Powers of Ten. The film simultaneously powerfully illustrates the concept of scale and highlights a sense of place. These tutorials step you through how to use Google Maps and Google Earth to make a recreation of part of the film centered around a location of your choice.
Why would you want to center this on your own location?
There are at least three important reasons.
1. It’s cool. Here are two examples of what the finished product looks like in Google Earth:
•Taughannock Falls State Park Powers of Ten Google Earth Tour.
•For either file, download the file and open with Google Earth. Highlight the folder for the new tour and click the play button.
2.Mapping is not trivial to understand. Maps are abstractions that are particularly difficult if an individual has not traveled much. If you can begin with the unmistakably local (like the schoolyard) and gradually pull back to see more and more, mapping can suddenly move from the abstract to the concrete.
3.Scale, especially on astronomical and microscopic levels is more difficult to understand than mapping and highlighting scale should be done repeatedly throughout one’s education. Scale and its representations is truly a big idea about the Earth system and it is discussed more in the Big Ideas section of the site.
MAKE YOUR OWN POWERS OF TEN CONTENTS:
VIDEO TUTORIALS:
1.00 Our own powers of ten: Taughannock Falls Example
•This shows the product of this tutorial, using Taughannock Falls as the center of our Powers of Ten experience.
No video? Click here: http://virtualfieldwork.org/videos/1.00_Taughannock_Powers_of_Ten_Introduction.swf
HAS SOMETHING GOT YOU STUCK?
•We’re developing an FAQ. In order to do that, we need you to ask questions!
•Send an email to Don or Skype him at dugganhaas.
The FAQ is now found at the bottom the page, Your Own Powers of Ten. Click the link and scroll down to see if your question has been addressed.