ITSRG announces the start of its Citizen Cartographers 2.0 Program. One of the most exciting developments in the web 2.0 community is the rise of user created map resources that can be shared, commented on, and integrated in websites, blogs, and e-newsletters. ITSRG will showcase examples of maps created that pertain to community interests and information needs. If you would like to submit a map, please email us at: [email protected] or send a link to your map using the comments function of this post. We will feature your posts throughout the month of June.
Farmers Markets in Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia recently opened a new Farmer's Market in the center of City Hall (see photo). This new attention on the importance of providing high quality foods for local communities in Philadelphia inspired us to work with Harrison Campus Compact staff members and local community organizations to create a Google Maps mash-up of local farmers markets throughout the city of Philadelphia. Our map features smart markers that show information about seasonal days and hours of operation of local markets, the street address, contact information for the market management, and whether or not food stamps and WIC are accepted forms of payment. Just click the marker to find out more information about the market in your neighborhood. If there is no market nearby, contact Farm to City to learn about hosting a local market.
Originally posted 6/4/08.
Michele Masucci and Caroline Guigar
Temple University
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The ITSRG Summer Intensive program is open to students entering 8th, 9th and 10th grades in the fall who will be enrolled in the School District of Philadelphia. ITSRG sponsored a month-long writing workshop involving faculty, graduate student and community fellows aimed at sharing outcomes of our programs, projects and research activites. Fellows have been writing about issues such as digital inclusion, literacy and place, cyber safety for kids, web 2.0 and communities, fair information practices, BITS Program Lessons Learned and e-health. ITSRG Student Fellow and Geography and Urban Studies Graduate Fatima Abbas was recently featured in Temple University's Meet the 2008 Graduates article. Congratulations to Harrison Campus Compact staff member Erin Cusack who has won a Fulbright Scholarship. She plans to study in Madrid, Spain, where she will teach bilingual classes to schoolchildren and continue her thesis project comparing immigration policies in Spain and France. On Friday, The ITSRG office was a stop on the Supporting Young Women In Geography Scavenger Hunt on Temple's campus organized by GUS graduate students Melody Grewell and Laurie Pickard. Last Thursday the ITSRG staff had the pleasure of attending a reception with Sen. Tartaglione at Sheppard Elementary School. Senator Tartaglione will join the students, families and staff at Sheppard Elementary School to celebrate a new grant that will enable families to gain computer and Internet access. ITSRG hosts a panel session at the AAG meeting in Boston on the intersection of informal science education and geography - Lessons learned from the BITS Program Wednesday, from 10:10 AM - 11:50 AM Mel Grewell, an M. A. Candidate in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies and Graduate Research Fellow of ITSRG is interested in youth perceptions of community. Her paper examines inner-city adolescents' perceptions of community and other geographic concepts, such as maps and place. Her study was conducted in North Philadelphia drawing on perspectives of students involved in the BITS Program. She has noticed that there are many interesting connections between what participants drew on their sketch maps of their communities and how they chose to photograph their communities. For example, most participants portrayed their homes on the community maps the created and also through photography. But, some of the participants' drawings tended to focus on the area immediately around their homes, whereas their photographs had a broader geographic range showing where the participants spend their time. |
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