RESOURCE: Google Earth NYC reporting resource
From Prof. Hancock…
Dear colleagues:
Columbia’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning teamed up with the Journalism School this summer to create a new and dynamic reporting resource for our RW1 students.
This electronic map of New York City allows our students to view an array of census data neighborhood by neighborhood, election district by election district.
Look for it at: http://jour6001-000-2008-3.wikispaces.columbia.edu/ [jour6001-000-2008-3.wikispaces.columbia.edu]
Students should be able to manipulate the data and import portions of this map to illustrate their stories online. It’s accessible on Google Earth, which is downloaded in all the student labs and RW1 professors’ computers.
Stay tuned for some quick inhouse sessions on how to use it for faculty and students. In the meantime, please contact Maria Janelli (mjanelli[at]columbia.edu) with any questions you have. She is the CCNMTL architect of the map.
Enjoy!
LynNell Hancock
