Batch-gee-o!

For some reason, I have to singsong this application, like it is some sort of product!
Here is my map!

I'm not sure how to embed, here goes!




View Ed tech map in a full screen map

Try Batchgeo yourself!

Oh noes!  I lost the rest of my content! Oh well, here it goes again!

I'm not 100% sure what to do with this application! While trying to put on my French teacher thinking-cap, I think I would use this for mapping Francophone countries and showing students how language migrated from place to place by colonists. I could also use it to map student's potential pen-pals around the world. I love maps, and can study them for hours, so I find Batchgeo fascinating, if not a little intimidating in its use of information to locate persons or places. I guess since I know that I am one of the flags on there, it is hard to think of myself popping up in the larger world like that, but that is exactly what this application is good for-letting students know that the world is not such a big scary place!

NETS T standards associated with Batchgeo are:

2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
4) Promote an model digital citizenship and responsibility

I like the term 'digital citizenship.' It indicates that with knowledge comes responsibility and this tool is a good way for students to learn both. I also like the term 'global village' and Batchgeo helps to shrink the huge wide world down to a manageable size for students, and show that while we may be far apart, we are still all humans living in the same big place.