Been playing this morning with Google Maps Image Cutter, an application created by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London. I followed the instructions from this blog post on Digital Inspiration (via a tweet from Scott Leslie) and had the app working in a few minutes.
This little java app will allow you to take a very large photo, slice it up into a number of smaller images and, (with a Google Maps API code) overlay a Google maps interface. This gives you the ability to zoom in and out and pan around your image. Very handy if you have large images (like a widescreen panorama for example) that you want to display on a webpage.
Here is an example of what you can do with the tool. The full image size of the collage below is 2500×1658 pixels.
Photo by Yann!s (License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0)
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I've found this as well
“Waves need to have a specific focus, otherwise it’s just a chat, and there are better mediums for that.”
“Waves that don’t have a specific focus need roles to help manage the threads.”
“Waves need maintenance. Stuff can be consolidated/deleted/cleaned. It’s a collaboration tool – people have to work/negotiate with each other.”
“By virtue of sharing something in a wave with others, the default expectation is that someone WILL edit what you say. It is not an authoring platform to exchange ideas. It’s a platform to converge ideas.”
“Facilitated/hosted waves need organization, maybe even design or Wave “templates.” Much like #lrnchat (Editor’s Note: running discussions on Twitter about learning) is organized with a warmup question and three ensuing questions, maybe a good wave needs to use blips or wavelets as conventions for certain types of group discussion or group work.” - Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
Many students, teachers, instructional technologists, and administrators consider the LMS too inflexible and are turning to the web for tools that support their everyday communication, productivity, and collaboration needs. Blogs, wikis, social networking sites, microblogging tools, and other web-based applications are supplanting the teaching and learning tools previously found only inside the LMS.
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Arthur
May 10th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
1Ah, perfection. simple, light, known controls.
How can I get this to work on my WordPress blogs? Is there a pluging for Wordpress? That would be a huge hit!
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Clint Lalonde
May 14th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
2No WP plugin that I know of. To get this to work in a WP blog post, I had to use the html iFrame tag in the body of my post and pull the image from a standalone html page I created outside the structure of the blog. The original page is located http://clintlalonde.net/collage.html.
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