Last August, Bryan Alexander from NITLE gave a workshop here at UPS on Web 2.0 Storytelling Tools. The workshop was well attended by faculty (see this page for resources gathered during the workshop).

In the most recent issue of Educause Review magazine, Bryan and Alan Levine (of the New Media Consortium, and whose 50 Story Tools is a major catalog of such tools), have written a useful overview article, Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre covering many aspects of teaching and learning with these new tools.

Here are some notes from this morning’s session at the NITLE Summit conference in San Francisco. The topic is web based mapping and geographic tools.

News flash from this session: Google Earth is about to put out infra-red images of the US.

What is “Webmapping” ? The progression from static maps to animated, real time, interactive, collaborative maps and the virtual globe.

• Biomapping.net maps sensors on people which track physiological response to their emotional state as they move through a geographical space
• Gapminder allows creation and sharing of complex geo-data vizualizations
• MapFrappe let’s you draw on Google Maps
• GMDir is a directory to many such Google Maps based mashups

Thanks for info to Vidya Ananthanaryanan of Trinity University

Here are some excellent projects other schools presented in sessions this morning at the NITLE Summit in San Francisco, as provided by NITLE friends via Twitter.

• Lewis and Clark College Ceramic Art Project using Flickr
• Sarah Lawrence College Library uses del.icio.us tagging as a reference service to faculty and students
• The Viper Project “A Cyber-Enabled Community of Practice for Improving Inorganic Chemical Education” sponsored by DePauw, Reed and other colleges