Oct 04 2006
My Quikmaps lesson
Wow – what fun we had, this one really challenged the kids. Basically I wanted them to embed a historic photo of our town from Flickr into a Quikmap - they had to locate where to place the photo using some simple clues I gave them. A great Geography / History / ICT activity. Quikmaps seems to work differently in Internet Explorer then in Mozilla Firefox – in my class we use Firefox, but in the ICT suite we have IE installed, I might change that. The interface with the buttons seemed a little laggy and not as smooth and there were even problems with the appearance of the icon pallette.
The children soon managed very well and everyone used some code I had saved in a word document (like this] but I soon realised as I was explaining the above that we should take one thing at a time. So we just saved our maps – Quikmaps was obviously bombarded with maps in one account so struggled with the high traffic and I had a few Quikmaps – “OOPS APPLICATION ERROR” messages and was a bit concerned that the kids would lose there work. But they saved and as we used the back button and then saved again we had loads of duplicates. I contacted Ken over at Quikmaps and he said there were approx 54 maps from about 18 workstations!!, anyway we will be posting our maps up soon on the wiki so watch out.
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Hi! You’re doing some really interesting things using your blog and wiki. I’ll definitely keep visiting to see what you’re up to! I’m a teacher too near Stockton-on-Tees, but secondary MFL. I was born and grew up in Sutton-in-Ashfield though- so particularly interested in your history posts! Check out our German blog too: http://www.eggdeutsch.typepad.com
Best Wishes
Sam Dernley
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[...] My Bubblr and Quikmaps idra is essentially an extension of a History activity I did with my class of Year 6 kids – they added photos to a quikmap placemark, we then embedded them in our wikispace (see my post about the lesson) [...]
Just to add that quikmaps doesnt work with the Mac Safari web browser, Ive yet to try it with firefox, but the concept looks great.
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Love the quikmaps!!! How do you get a photo to appear too?????
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[...] Following a comment from Sally on the “My Quikmaps Lesson” post I thought I would quickly explain how to add images, video even Bubblr strips to a placemark. [...]
Hi, the idea of adding images is super but can’t get it to work. No save target so went to properties and copied the link. When in Quickmaps the image does not appear as it has the image box with no image… Could be my coding or how I have copied the link. Can you help as I have tried for ages with no success,
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Hi TechnoTeach,
I would be happy to help!
Sorry that those intial instructions did not include IE.
It sounds like you are on the right tracks with copying the url from the properties windows after right clicking. Just make sure that the url you copy has a recognised file extension at the end, like .jpg or .gif
like
http://static.flickr.com/115/260918621_6636f77542_m.jpg
This then must be coded in properly with the text before and after:
Let me know if this works or if you need me to explain anything more clearly.
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