I love the internet. It's as simple as that :). Many of you experienced first hand my excitement for wikis and google maps at the beginning of this semester. Attending Bonner Congress at West Virgina Weslyan College only made my passion for the world wide web grow stronger! And so it should come as no surprise that I replaced yesterday afternoon's senior research time with an internet browsing session. This blog is in fact the result of that procrastination!
My exploration began with idealist.org. If you have not yet visited this site, I encourage you to follow my example in dropping your homework and checking it out as soon as possible :). Idealist advertises job postings, internship opportunities, blogs, podcasts, and all things social justice. In the blogging sort of mood, I chose yesterday to sift through some of Idealist's archived articles.
One of the first blogs I stumbled across (just so happened!) to focus on mapping initiatives. What luck! It seems that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has caught my vision :). While their main project focuses on mapping out the atrocities of the Holocaust, they have expanded their resources to include present day genocide. Their website says this: "The Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative brings together data, photographs, video, and eyewitness testimony in Google Earth to help inform citizens, governments, and institutions about current and potential genocides and related crimes against humanity, and to respond."
The best way for me to describe this resource is to compare it to our CAM project. Much like our Pierson, Deland, and Spring Hill maps, this initiative has tied icons on Google Earth to short stories, photographs, videos, and statistics relating to genocide, specifically in Darfur.
Next time you find yourself "wasting time" online, try absorbing yourself in Google Earth rather than Facebook :). You may just find yourself surprised with the results!
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