 Hello, welcome back on my YouTube channel. In this video, I'm going to show an example on how to use Feld in the classroom for digital storytelling. You can use Feld for free in the class, you just need to go through a very clear application process. You can find the information through the Feld website. Here it's explained how to setup Feld for your classroom. All the steps are clearly explained. Most important is to fill out the form to verify your educational license. And here it says that the verification process takes less than two weeks, but often is faster. In my case, it went quite fast, so I could go through the other steps to really be prepared for the class. I invited the students and I organized the class into projects. So for each group, I created a project, so that's a folder, kind of structure under the workspace. And besides that, they created their own data using QGIS. They also had access to the library of data. So Feld provides already data layers, but you can add extra data for your class. And I did that. I provided data from the Climate Effect Atlas, and we'll have a look at it. So here's Feld, and you see here group ABCD under the workspace Urban Planning for Climate Adaptation, which is the name of the class. And students can create here a new map, works exactly as you would normally use Feld. But here in the library, you see that for my class, I have specific layers that they can use related to Urban Planning for Climate Adaptation. But under general, you see all the other layers that are normally available in Feld. So that's really useful. To be prepared, the students had to go through the tutorials. So they did the GIS analysis in the first week of the module. And then towards the end of the module, they have to learn the digital storytelling part. And here at GIS OpenCourseware, I've provided similar materials. So there are different sections here, Introduction to Feld using the Feld plugin for QGIS and other useful links. So they had to go through Introduction to Feld. And this guides them through the steps of creating a new account where they had to use their university email address. They used the Learn to Use Feld example map provided by Feld to get acquainted with the functionality. I did this in class. So I let them go afterwards try themselves by creating a new workspace. That's their personal workspace. And then create a new project. And then they had to create their new map. And I used here area that they're familiar with, Delft, where they study to extract the building of our university, the IHG Delft building. And then also add text and change colors. Find the building with the dorms and then put a pin there with an icon of a bed. Use the routing tool to get the track by foot from the dorm to IHG Delft. Make a circle around the place where they will graduate. Add some text there. And add some other links and information and even videos. So they got quite familiar by going through all these steps here in the tutorial. Here adding arrows. Also learn how to comment because part of the assignment is group presentation, but also debating comments from the audience. So the live comments would come in and then they had to respond to that after their presentation and debate with the classroom. You see they can also learn how to change the backdrop. You also learn how to export the results to QGIS, but also vice versa using the Feld plugin for QGIS to get their own project into Feld. So here you see the little example project that students had to do to get familiar with the tools. The walking route from the dorms to the university and then the place where they graduated. They're successful with completing their masters. So each group member was assigned editing rights to their group and the lecturers also had access to those groups and see what's going on. So the students individually go through these tutorials to get familiar with Feld and then at the day of the presentation I showed them the rubric on how we mark the presentations of the groups and they had to upload their public links with comment permission. So the others in the classroom could just scan the QR code or click on the link to comment on their maps while they were presenting. And then I was up to the students to present their results as a group and they all chose different ways, creative ways to use Feld. They worked out how to get the flow in their story and you show height of layers and also some did it with opacity so you could see blending through. Because students are very used to PowerPoint you can give them a hint to present things like flowcharts that are not related to geographical locations in lakes or in the ocean where there's enough space on the globe to present that stuff. Here you see a nice example where different layers are shown of a residential area and here an NDVI layer is shown which shows how green the study area is and then use the opacity slider to show the hotspots from a temperature image and this is a very visual way of showing how this is inversely correlated for this urbanized area. They further illustrated this with adding arrows and polygons and pictures. It was nice to see the creativity of the groups and also how they used links to external applications that could help to explain the story. Some used cesium in this case a shade app was used and here we see the effect of shade on that study area so this case study was about the urban heat island effect. Here you can see the effect of the shade at different times of the day and different dates. You can see a few more examples one is a water square project where different layers were used to see where roads get flooded and a solution has been proposed to create a water square. Google with Street View also illustrates the problem and the other project here is a water retention pond. In the end this group had to debate with the people in the classroom who are part of other groups and one by one the comments were taken and discussed. So I think this was a really nice tool to use for this purpose of presenting climate adaptation in cities using group work and debates with the classroom in real time. I liked the creativity that students used to present this. It would be nice to have some feature that can control the flow like map themes or spatial bookmarks that would make it easier maybe that partly already exists. But for the rest I think this was really cool to do and it was also well appreciated by the students.