From The Peopling of New York City

The following is a list of applications that may be useful for your group projects

Google Maps

Google Maps is a great way to create and customize maps. Images and video can be embedded in your maps. The maps can also be embedded in the wiki.

View Hunter College in a larger map

See here for more information on creating Google Maps.

See our Help page for how to embed a Google map in the wiki.

UMapper

Umapper is a web-based tool that allows you to create an interactive map that is embeddable on a website. In addition to marking your maps with points of interest and plot routes, it also allows you to insert images and annotations. You can even create a geodart game that allows your audience to interact with your map as a game. You can also use a customized map instead of using online map providers like Google or Yahoo Maps.

Voicethread

Voicethread allows you to create a conversation around a video, document or photograph. There are various ways that the app can be put to use:

1. Multiple perspectives of a photograph - the different people featured in this photograph provide commentary as to why they are wearing the facial expressions that the photographer has frozen in time

2. Discussion forum - the first commenter (top left) invites responses to the following question: "How do you manage your multiple memberships on various social networks (e.g. Facebook, Myspace, Blogger etc.)?" The image on display depicts the theme of the question.

3. Photo essay. The following features a commenter providing a voice-over narration of places in Boston that have a personal connection.

iMapFlickr

Flickr is a web hosted site for storing, organizing, showcasing and searching for photographs. The iMapFlickr application allows you to create a map of photographs that have been geotagged (i.e. photos that have been assigned a location tag on Flickr) like the one below:

Dipity

Dipity allows you to create a visual timeline like this:

History of the Macaulay Honors College on Dipity.

The History of Macaulay Honors College, a timeline created by students of the Class of 2013 at the Spring 2010 Tech Fair