Give Us Each Day Our Daily Pan: Old Stone House Panoramic Scene

A Quote From The Original Give Us Each Day...

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In March of 2006 I started reacquainting myself with QuickTime VR movies. I remembered how relatively easy they were to make and how their file size was relatively small. Susan Abdulezer, distinguished Apple Educator, media developer for District 75 (NYCDOE) and QuickTime guru, taught the CSD1 tech staff the basics of the program about 6-7 years ago. At that time we used QuickTime VR 2.0. This time in OSX I experimented with VR Worx. Panoramic movies are used extensively in real estate and tourist sites. I often felt it's potential has gone untapped for social studies education. By linking one panorama to another, using hot spots, you can explore a given scene's both indoor and outdoor environments. You can also connect two or more outdoor environments with a kind of leap frog effect to help explore larger geographic areas. I've found in my years as a NYC public school teacher that many kids' knowledge of the city only extends to the 10 square block area of their neighborhoods. Perhaps the creation of libraries of city-wide quicktime vr movies can provide some help in broadening their horizons. Certainly the kids can be taught the basics of the program as well and they could be turned loose to create their own portfolios. All you need is a digital camera and a tripod. Freeware and shareware VR programs are readily available. There is also a vast potential for literacy education as such movies can inspire students to write about the neighborhood scenes that they create and explore. Liz Sevcenko, from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, many years ago had introduced the term "Mapping Memories" to a group of CSD1 teachers with pencil and paper and Tom Beller from his excellent site "Mr. Beller's Neighborhood" has employed such a technique digitally with a NYC base map. I felt that these movies that I was creating needed a home of their own, rather than being thrown into the chaotic mix of my blog, pseudo-intellectualism. Synchronicitiously came along another great Google For Educators innovation called Google Pages, which allowed me to do this as well as link to such helpful tools and widgets such as Google Maps and YouTube. It also allowed me to place an mp3 player below the image above for a musical dedication to my parents Sol and Eva Bellel and to my Uncle Hyman Genee

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Old Stone House Panoramic Scene

A panoramic scene connecting a panoramic movie taken in the Old Stone House, with a panoramic movie taken in the connecting JJ Byrne Park,
Questions for panorama:

1. This panorama was taken on Monday, June 2nd. What time of the day do you think it is and tell why.
2. What do you think the big map shows in the Old Stone House (in order to find the map you have to find the hot spot to go from the park panorama to the panorama in the stone house)

Questions for google map:

1. On what block is the Old Stone House located?
2. What large park is close to the Old Stone House?

About the Old Stone House

The Old Stone House is a modern reconstruction of the Vechte-Cortelyou House, a 1699 Dutch stone farmhouse with important ties to American history.
Today, the Old Stone House is operated as a historic interpretive center dedicated to its crucial role in the American Revolution and in the evolving histories of Brooklyn, New York and the United States.
The Old Stone House serves as a dynamic community resource through its education programs and events. In addition to historical exhibits open to the public, the House is available by appointment for tours, classes and rentals.

Below is a portion of My Battle Of Brooklyn Map

I "google mapped" the excellent geocache done by Alan2 at geocaching.com. This is Phase 5 of the Battle. It has 5 stops. I've supplemented the geocache with slide show movies I made and other resources on the Battle of Brooklyn as well as other events in Brooklyn history.
The markers are set at approximate locations. Also note slide shows are downloadable (just wait until it fully loads and use "control click" on a mac). The automatic timed slide shows can also be paused at any time by clicking on the movie. A double click will then resume it.
As of late I have added many other Brooklyn history resources, including information on the historic Dutch homesteads (these have the yellow house icon). Much of that information comes from www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com