This session from TELFest by Bob Johnston and Graham McElearney looks at a number of different ways in choch technology can be used to enhance the field work experience of students. The session looks at the use of ESRI Story Maps, 360 images and videos, and other technologies such as creating virtual worlds with the popular Unity gaming engine.

1. Technology in Support of
Field-Based Learning
Bob Johnston (Department of Archaeology)
Graham McElearney (TEL Team, CiCS)

2. 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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3. Relocation
pedagogies for fieldwork

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

5. Image: Bill Bevan

6. Taxonomy of TEL in fieldwork
Preparation and briefing
Engagement - includes data collection
Processing - including aggregation
Debriefing, feedback on experience,
assessment
02/06/16 © The University of Sheffield

7. Taxonomy of TEL in fieldwork
Preparation and briefing
Engagement - includes data collection
Processing - including aggregation
Debriefing, feedback on experience,
assessment
02/06/16 © The University of Sheffield

8. Relocation: using TEL to
prepare students for fieldtrips
1.multi-modal, map-based platforms
2.experiential media
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9. Arbor Low
a fieldtrip into the Neolithic

10. 3000 BC 2000 BC 1000 BC
Later
Neolithic
Early Bronze
Age
Middle
Bronze
Age
Late
Bronze
Age
Chalco-
lithic
AAP3006 Later Neolithic and Bronze
Age Britain and Ireland

14. Storymaps
an ESRI geoapp

15. 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

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

18. 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

19. 360 panoramic images
and video

20. 360 still images and videos
Overall aim is to provide a richer sense of
experience and sense of place
Traditional forms of depicting landscapes
and sites are often abstracted
maps of an area e.g. Google
maps, OS
plan view of a site
aerial footage

21. Google Earth….

22. Archaeological plan...

23. Aerial footage….

24. 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

25. 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”

26. 360 Panoramas
Example -
https://round.me/tour/54074/view/136266/

27. 360 video
Panoramic images good for allowing some
relatively free from exploration
But what about providing a more directed
narrative - a guided tour?

29. 360 video
Bob with static camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fyf9K3sDWM
Bob walking with camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLhk7PTQkc

30. 360 video - process
Take footage with camera (including hiding!)
Extract using app - can publish straight away
Or
Then edit using e.g Premiere
Inject 3D metadata
Publish (to YouTube)

31. Other technologies

32. Use Google Streetview to
create your own
Free App for Android and IOS
Upload to Google
Should appear in Streetview after approval

33. Landscape modelling and VR
technologies
Use of gaming engine technology to
produce interactive worlds
Fully navigable
Wide range of possible interactivity

34. Examples
Examples from University of Leeds
Topographic map for basic map skills
Geological formations
Outcrops
Arbor Low revisited

36. r.johnston@sheffield.ac.uk
g.mcelearney@sheffield.ac.uk

37. For more information
Contact the TEL Team
TEL@Sheffield.ac.uk
http://tel.group.shef.ac.uk/
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cics/learningandteaching