I enjoyed the interactive map reading exercise that showed a map, more like a detailed drawing, of Washington, D.C. I have pretty good background knowledge about women's fashions and when things were built, so I found it fun to guess when it might have been made. As the ladies did not have bustles, I assumed it was before 1880. If you gave students some fun facts for background info, such as the year the Washington Monument was built, and a fashion profile by decade of the 1880s, they might have more buy-in.
Now, at home, I have a map from 1664, a page from a Dutch atlas by a mapmaker named Hondius. I am going back online to see if I can find more maps by that particular mapmaker.
Update: I did find some maps by Hondius, but most of them were listed but not visible. I tried three times to upload one to this blog, each time getting a corruption message. It uploads in this weird jp2 format that does not work. I finally made a screen shot, a TIFF that I converted to a jpg.
Hi Jane, This is not really a comment about your blog per se (though I've enjoyed reading it) but I didn't see any way to send a personal note other than by posting a comment. I'm another Jane McCabe and came across your blog via a Google notification service. If you care to respond you can write to me at jwmccabe@aol.com. Good luck with your class! ~Jane McCabe in SoCal
ReplyDeleteI appreciate how you worked at that picture - yes, the materials at the Library are sometimes hard to navigate and use because each collection is digitized in it's own format
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