Just thought I would quickly update about this as the second Year 6 class took this lesson with a colleague today as we were blogging. I had planned to use an online mapping tool to do some preliminary local history work. The lesson turned out to uncover an interesting gem of an idea!
When exploring whether the site would work OK in our computer suite I found out that a single login could be used by multiple users and worked shared really easily. So using such a single login children opened up a COLLECTION that I had previously made that included some simple placemarks or PUSHPINs – our school, the allotment, ASDA across the road. Their simple job was to explore the imagery of the local area and add a PUSHPIN of a place relevant to them. Just about everyone added their house – but some even added their Auntie’s shop! When you click PROPERTIES and SAVE the COLLECTION is shared but work is not overwritten. So it basically creates a class resource of placemarks that you can look at together later. As I wasn’t teaching i don’t know whether this updated when you clicked save or if the list of placemarks remained the same – but with your changes.
I am now going to investigate whether the placemarks can be organised and moved about.