New Developments in Digital Media | Practice Project

Project Options

• A map of nationalities, showing only portraits, emphasizing contrasts in race, complexion and facial structure. Possibly I could map the journey in the history of certain migrant groups or nomads. example: Mapping the migration (journey) of African slaves, showing their original dark complexion in Africa, transforming into slighter light coloured throughout history in the U.S.

Human Migration

Skin Colours around the world

• A similar project, but with evolution of the language accents. Particularly that of the British language, diverging to accents in America, Australia, South Africa, Caribbean, etc. (link) (embedding)

Dialects in England

• A backpacker’s tool to help deciding the next city on the trip. Showing popular locations, including weather, job availability, hostel prices, native language, currency and local news. example: You’re next city could be either Amsterdam or Oslo. By clicking on both cities you see that Amsterdam uses the Euro, Oslo doesn’t. So you decide to spend your last Euros in Amsterdam.

Useful links

Timeline embedding in Google Maps
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2008/08/dipity.html

Change borders, start time, size etc… for your Youtube video
http://code.google.com/intl/nl/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhawgd0REhA&feature=player_embedded#

Create simple customized Youtube players
http://www.youtube.com/custom_player

Javascript tutorial for Google Maps (in Dutch, so use Google Translator)
http://www.whelp.nl/googlemaps-eigen-markers/

Make your own markers for your map
http://mapki.com/index.php?title=Icon_Image_Sets

Create overlays for Google Maps (photos, colours, even animation (!!) in Google Maps)
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/software/gmapcreator.asp

Google Earth, for 3D models, timelines, flight simulators, tours, etc…
http://earth.google.co.uk/userguide/v4/ug_toc.html

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