Technology in Support of Field-Based Learning

Bob Johnston (Department of Archaeology)Graham McElearney (TEL Team, CiCS)

Outline

• Relocation: pedagogies for fieldwork• Arbor Low: a fieldtrip into prehistory • Storymaps: an ESRI geoapp• 360 panoramic images and video•Other technologies

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Relocationpedagogies for fieldwork

place-based education seeks to engage students experientially in, about and for the landscape

Image: Bill Bevan

Taxonomy of TEL in fieldwork

Preparation and briefingEngagement - includes data collectionProcessing - including aggregationDebriefing, feedback on experience, assessment

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Taxonomy of TEL in fieldwork

Preparation and briefingEngagement - includes data collectionProcessing - including aggregationDebriefing, feedback on experience, assessment

02/06/16 © The University of Sheffield

Relocation: using TEL to prepare students for fieldtrips

1.multi-modal, map-based platforms2.experiential media

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Arbor Lowa fieldtrip into the Neolithic

3000 BC 2000 BC 1000 BC

LaterNeolithic

Early Bronze Age

Middle Bronze Age

Late Bronze Age

Chalco- lithic

AAP3006 Later Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland

Storymapsan ESRI geoapp

ESRI Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS• A platform for building web applications in ArcGIS• Configurable apps built with a combination of HTML and

JavaScript • Templates are open so that you can download their

source code and customize them to suit your needs• Most templates are configurable using a simple graphical

user interface• ESRI hosts the apps, they are publically available and

there are no subscription charges for educational use

Direct link:http://arcg.is/2918eSc

How to build a Storymap• Register with ArcGIS for Developers (

https://developers.arcgis.com)• Write a script and collate media • Assemble into a csv file• Create a Storymap using ESRI AppBuilder• Load csv file• Refine the app using the ‘Builder’ tools• Save and share the link

360 panoramic images and video

360 still images and videos

Overall aim is to provide a richer sense of experience and sense of placeTraditional forms of depicting landscapes and sites are often abstracted

maps of an area e.g. Google maps, OS

plan view of a siteaerial footage

Google Earth….

Archaeological plan...

Aerial footage….

All useful in their own right

Show monument within its landscape setting BUT…...….. our students won’t get this perspective visiting the site

….. and our prehistoric counterpoints almost certainly didn’t either

360 Panoramas

Aims to bring a more embodied, first-person experience of being at the monument

Places visitor at the centre of a photographic panorama

Allows the visitor to control their own experience within a series of “nodes”

360 Panoramas

Example - https://round.me/tour/54074/view/136266/

360 video

Panoramic images good for allowing some relatively free from explorationBut what about providing a more directed narrative - a guided tour?

360 video

Bob with static camerahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fyf9K3sDWM

Bob walking with camerahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLhk7PTQkc

360 video - process

Take footage with camera (including hiding!)Extract using app - can publish straight awayOrThen edit using e.g PremiereInject 3D metadataPublish (to YouTube)

Other technologies

Use Google Streetview to create your own

Free App for Android and IOSUpload to GoogleShould appear in Streetview after approval

Landscape modelling and VR technologies

Use of gaming engine technology to produce interactive worldsFully navigableWide range of possible interactivity

Examples

Examples from University of LeedsTopographic map for basic map skillsGeological formationsOutcrops

Arbor Low revisited

r.johnston@sheffield.ac.ukg.mcelearney@sheffield.ac.uk

For more informationContact the TEL Team

TEL@Sheffield.ac.ukhttp://tel.group.shef.ac.uk/

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cics/learningandteaching