Maps

**JOurnal for ECOMP 355**- This page is where the idea for the wikispace came from. My first idea for a final project was to create a Google map that has students researching and studying teh places in a novel by posting pictures, quotes and information pertinent to the chracters and story in the novel being studied. However, without a context with which to place the maps in relation to the novel being studied. Therefore I took typical novel study assignments and applied them to a wiki space. I also added the google map as a internet addition to the novel study assignments. I found the google maps time consuming because it was easy to get sidetracked and bogged down with all the information and photos one could add to the map. I began by rereading the novel taking note of the significant places the chracter mentioned. I than found these places on the map ( as best I could because the map has changed since the war ended and the boundaries have changed in the area I was studying). I than found pictures and quality information that fit with the places the chracter talks about I than linked the information to the posted quotes and photos. I found the assignment very interesting because I got to see the actual real pictures of the places in the novel. This made the story very real and more meaningful for me asa reader. It also helped me understand the effects of war on the place in which teh chracter grew up. I also found it helpful to learn more detailed information and history behind the places and subject matter because it helped make the story more understandable.

Purpose: This page conatins google maps that relate directly to the novel the class is studying. Each week the teacher will assign different students to be the mapquesters. It will be the mapquesters job to update the google map according to the places mentioned in the novel based on class discussions and brainstorming sessions.

Assignment: Each week the class will discuss and make a list of the importance of places mentioned in the novel. The novel will have been broken up into parts accorrding to weeks. Each student will be required to have written down at least one quote that mentions a place in the given portion for the week. The class will than share their quotes with the class until we have a list of places we want to add to the google map. We will than brainstorm the types of images or information we would like to see linked with place markers on the map. It will than be the job of the mapquesters to find the places on the google map and link images and information to the place marker on the google map. The classes brainstorming should help give the mapquesters ideas about what kinds of links and images are important to the place. As the mapquester adds places to the map he or she must add the quote from the novel that corresponds to the place being marked. Each quote must include the page number.


 * Every student will have the job of mapquester at least once throughout the novel study period. Those students who are more interested in doing the job on a regular basis will be exempt from some of the other assignments and will receive marks according to the amount of work done on the google maps.

The following young adult novel called Zlata's diary is the story of a young girls experience with the wartime in Sarajevo. The following maps show the different places in and around Sarajevo that Zlata discusses in her diary. Students will work on adding places as they read along with the novel. The hope is that they will add pictures, videos and links that show places in Zlata's diary pre, during and post wartime. The maps are meant to be a collective executed by the class as a whole or as individuals.
 * Zlata's Diary Google Map**

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