 Hi, good afternoon everyone. My name is Denise and I will be taking you through the basics of Digimap for Schools today. And so today webinar will give you an overview of the mapping tools available to you on Digimap for Schools. But we also offer the Digibytes which are smaller, more detailed webinars that focus on different areas of Digimap for Schools. For example, if you want to learn more about drawing tools, you will join the webinar, the Digibytes webinar for drawing tools. If you want to know about layers, there is one for layers, one for adding your own data. So make sure to check those webinars and the past webinars are available on YouTube and the webinars who are going to come soon. They are on our website. I will show you at the end, but make sure to sign in and take advantage of this free service. So when you first join Digimap for Schools, your whole school receives a pin code and a password. So the password is what you use to login and the pin code is what you use to change settings and arrange your preferences on Digimap for Schools. We will talk a little more about the pin code later on in the passwords. So when you first open your Digimap for Schools, that's what you see. This is the main mapping area of Digimap for Schools. So you can zoom in and out by using the scrolling zoom on your mouse, or you can use the bar on the right of your screen and either drag the bar up and down, or you can use the minus and plus. And if you find that you zoomed in too much, you got lost, don't know where you are. This box underneath with the arrows pointing in four directions. If you click on that, you'll go back to the original map and the original screen where you started from. So before we go ahead, let me zoom in and concentrate a little on the UK. And here you can see I'm using the scrolling button. If you have a touch screen, you can also use the pinch your screen up and down, and that will take you to zoom in or out on your screen. Okay, since I'm already zooming in a lot here, let's go to a place here called the Holy Island, which is on the north of England. So, and I will show a very interesting icon, or sorry, a very interesting function set of tools that you can use with younger students, for example. So on the left panel, you have different tools that you can use with digital map for schools, and you will have also some of the tools on the top bar, and we are going through each one of them. So let me start with the key tool. And the key tool as you zoom in is going to show me different symbols in a map. So if I buy a map on the gas station, for example, it will show me some keys. And those keys are exactly the same keys we have with the map for schools. And that is a good way of working with your students, comparing maps and showing them what is available and what each of the symbols in a map, each of the keys will mean. For example, if I go here and look at the water features, I will have a set of features that I can find in my map. And if I go to the land features, I will see that, for example, I have a wind turbine, and it is right here. I have a mast for electricity, which is here, and I have also a lighthouse, which is down here. And if I change then and go to, let's say, tourist information, I will have another set of symbols, and I will have a castle, and I will have a garden and a museum, and you can scroll down and nature reserve to show this little bird here. So there are lots of things you can do and lots of activities you can work with your students. For example, if I'm concentrating on the wind turbine, I can study the distribution of wind turbines across the region in the UK, for example. Or I can also use the windmills and study the concentration of windmills and just really play around and use the keys to what best suits your studies with your students. So I will zoom out of here a little, and while I can find places, if I know where they are, zooming in and out, I can also use search. And I don't know if you notice as I was zooming out, my key changed as well. And it changed because instead of showing specific points in more details and symbols, it is going to start showing me what I can see in the map. The map will tell me, like I can see red, pink lines, blue lines, green lines, and of course those are roads, those are motorways, and the junctions, and you can analyze those with your students as well. So there is a lot to play and a lot to investigate with the keys. But let's say I don't know where the place I'm looking for is. I can go to the search and I can either click on the magnifying glass here, or I can tap and type if I have a touchscreen, or I can just click with my mouse and then look for a place. So let's say I'm searching for Aberdeen. So Aberdeen, and then I press enter, and I will have two different results, two different sets of results. I have Aberdeen in Scotland, and I have four places, or places in the world, and which will bring me also everything that is called Aberdeen in the world that the map could identify. So the first Aberdeen I have here is the one in Scotland, the same one that I can press from here. But let's press from the word map. And it will bring me straight to Aberdeen. So I can zoom in. A pointer will appear in the place that I'm looking for. And if you don't want that pointer there, as soon as you click on the X button here, the pointer will disappear. I like to keep the pointer while I'm zooming in because that guides me to the correct place. As you can see, the maps in the UK, they are very detailed, very rich in all that you can see, you know where the roads are, you know what the houses are, and you can even identify, if you go to the key, you can identify from the color of those marks here which type of building it is. If it's a building with a glass roof, the key will let you know as well. Let's see, if I go for example to Aberdeen in Mississippi, USA, you can see that the map here of Aberdeen in USA is already not so rich in details. So depending on where you are looking for the places in the world, some countries will give more details to their maps and others will not have so many details. So I can see the streets but I cannot necessarily see the houses. And if I go to Canada, I will have even less details. So I'm just in a map lost in the middle of a big empty area. Of course the area should probably not empty but the information that we are giving in the map is not much. And if I decide to go to Aberdeen in Hong Kong, China, and then you find the city of Aberdeen, you'll find that the Chinese map is also has more details, although there are clusters of houses rather than individual houses in some places. And you'll find that the names are also written in Chinese. There is some translations but not always you'll find the translation so you have to bear in mind that depending on where you want to find a place in the world, it is going to have translation or it's not going to have a translation. And you can use the search button to search for cities, towns, touristic points. So if I go to the Taj Mahal, it will take me to the Taj Mahal in India. And yes, it can guide me to historic points, places and touristic places. So big landmarks as well. Okay, the next thing we are going to talk about and we are going as we are going through the icons and the tools on the left is we are going to look at the measuring tools. So the measuring tools, they are quite good. Okay, I am somewhere in India and I don't want to be in India. So let it's a good time for me to show you here on the top these two arrows that go around. If I click on that, I will also go back to my original map. And then I will have to zoom out or in again as I want. So let's search, for example, for Newton Grange Primary School. Okay, and that is a good one because I only have one. This one is wrong. So I only have one Newton Grange Primary School in the world and that one is in Midlothian. So I will leave the pointer there while I'm zooming in so I don't get lost because as you can see it moves a little and now I can get rid of it. So I have a Newton Grange Primary School. And I can measure. So I will use my measuring tool and I can measure the distance. So let's say I'm going from the hall to the main entrance of the building in the school. If I click and leave and click and leave, I click again at the end and I have, so 200 meters. 205 meters and I have also the measurements in yard. If I want to measure in area, for example, I can just click, drag, click, click, click, click and click at the end. And I know the measurement in the square meters as well. The only issue with measurements is that it is something that you can do with your students on the spot. They can use it for calculating different measurements. They can have as many measurements on the screen as they want. Let's say the distance, compare the distance between Johnny House and the school and the distance between Peter's house and the school. And you can let them play around and do some calculations with the measurements. However, at the moment I leave this map, all the measurements will disappear. I can't print them. I can't do anything with them. And what I'm going to do then is I'm going to delete them all. I just click on deleted measurements, delete all. And then I can go to the drawing tools and then you have a measurement area in the drawing tools, which will behave exactly in the same way. But this time it will be saved. And this time I will be able to print or download my map with all the measurements and all the drawings. So let's take a look at the drawing tools. So the first tool that I have here is the marker. And the markers are quite popular with young children because there are all the icons they can choose. They can also change the colors of their icons. So let's say, for example, I want a tree and I want my tree to have a bright green line and a dark green fill. I don't want the fill to be solid. I want it to be transparent. So that's how I make it transparent or not. So I will get it completely transparent or just slightly visible. And at the moment I touch and click on my map, the tree that I designed is going to appear in the colors that I chose. And as many times as I click, you have a tree. So if you are asking the students to design a playground, for example, they can add trees, they can add children playing, they love the stickman, and they can also go around the school and map the area and say, like, how do you like this play area? So it is a happy play area or is it a play area that needs some improvement? So you can do also lots of interesting studies with your students on with the markers. The second one is the shape. And for the shape you can draw polygons, you can draw freehand. I won't even attempt that because I'm terrible at freehand drawing. You can make a triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, circle, oval, and I think the most popular one is the polygon because with that one you can make, you can shape any building or can shape around any building. And the process is the same as in the measurements. Click, move on, click, move on. And as you click on the place, you will be designing your polygon. And I'm going just to go around this school building, the main building here. I will ignore everything else. And I'll go here and click at the end. Now I have my polygon. And if I don't like the color and I forgot to change that beforehand as I did with the marker, I can always change it afterwards. So all I need to do is to select. So I will click on select the building. And then I can click on the color and change to the color I want. So I want it blue. It is the line so it is okay if it's not transparent. But for the fields, I want also blue. And this time, yeah, halfway, not completely transparent, but transparent enough that I can see the building underneath it. Because if I make it solid, I can see the building underneath. And then when I click outside, this is the polygon as I wanted it to be. I can do the line in the same way. So I want this time a red line and my line is going to be a dotted line. And it is going to be slightly thicker at four points line. And I want it again from the church hall and all the way to the entrance of my building. Click again. And now what do I do with these drawings? I can measure them. I can actually ask my students to measure those drawings and to calculate. So let's say if each of the students will at the distance between the house and the school, they can calculate who's got the shortest who's going to go to the longer distance. And for example, I would just click on measure. And then I click on the building and I have my measurement in the square meters. And I could actually have chosen imperial unit. So if I go again here and click on measure. And I click on my line measure. I can choose this time. I'm going to choose imperial measurement. And as I click on the line, it will appear there. So in yards. So those are some of the tools you can use with the drawing tools. You can also add a text. And for example, if I want to add a label Newton range primary. And that is where it's going to be the little hand that appears when I hover over the, the, the name or the label. I, if I move my little hand, I will move label to whatever I want. So let's say this is the type of my page. And that's when I would use the text. If I just want a label, I can when I modify the drawing, I can add a label as well. And they can also add a text box. So I student can add a text box to make an explanation of what it is. So I can add a text here. So I'm designed a play part. Okay. So the teacher can leave this as a note for the students or the students can use that to explain what they've been doing and what they like and to enhance their discussions as well. So it's entirely up to you. But it is a good way of making notes on on your work as well. And you can add image to your drawing as well. So if I add an image and I want to add an image here, I will just click on image, click on where I want the image to go and choose from a file that I have on my computer already. So I have a picture of Newton Green's primary school. I would just click on that open and upload and my major up here here when the little hand is over it. I can change and drag around and put it where I want it to be. I can also use the grid reference and get the grid reference of my drawings and they can use the buffer tool. The buffer tool, I think it's a very powerful tool for elder students because it is going to help them to analyze, for example, these structures and identify, for example, let's say I'm doing a buffer tool and I want a point buffer tool. So at the moment I click on the, so I want a point I will have to add here. So I want that half a kilometer, half a kilometer. I want bother changing the colors now I am fine with as they are. And we are going to discuss on how to where we want. Let's say a football field to be. So when I click here I have a buffer tool that is half a kilometer in every way from the center from where I clicked. I can also delete the buffer point that I've just made. And let's try again. And this time I'm going to get a line buffer tool, and I wanted 200 meters from the train line. So let's say I want to know if the noise pollution from when a train passes by would affect the school in any way. So if I'm to understand where to build a school and I understand that let's say in that region, the noise from the train would travel 300 meters. When at the moment I create my buffer tool, I will know that in this line from that is closer to the school. My buffer tool, my noise pollution will be fine. It won't affect the school in any way. And you can use that also for rivers like if you want to if you know the flooding, like I'm not supposed to build a house 100 meters from that river because that river has a flooding extension of 100 meters. So it is a good buffer tool for you to work with your students and to identify. So again, what do I do with all this? So once you play around and once you work on your drawings and you go around and do as many activities and drawings. that you want, you can also save your drawings and for saving them, you can press on save map. And you can save them here. So I have one saved so everything that is saved will be collected here. So I have one new tongue range primary school saved and it when I press save it because I have it saved and I'm opening the one that was saved already. It is going to ask me either to replace or merge drawings. I can merge drawings so I can have drawings from different activities. So let's say each of these students will do one part of the activity. I can merge all the drawings and print it as one big activity to save my maps. I will just click on save map here. And I will be asked to add a title. You can add the class name that's optional. You can add the pupil name. The only thing you need to bear in mind is if you add your students name or if you add sensitive information like the child's address and the distance to school and or the way they go to school and so on. You have to be aware that everyone who has the password will be able to to to see those sensitive information in the same way that I was able to see all that my colleagues have saved here. Your students will be able to see each other's saved work and everyone else with the password. So giving a password to to parents, for example, we will allow them to help the students, but we will also allow them to see information about other students if they are sensitive information. So there are two ways we can go around that. As if you go to the arrow here. And you can go to the settings and from the settings you will be prompted to add your pin number. And with the pin number you can actually disable the saving. So your students wouldn't be saving able to save. So that information that is sensitive information wouldn't be seen by others. That's one way. And the other way is you can work around and give students fictitious names like working groups and add their group names and give characters like fairy tale characters. So you can imagine a way around that would not necessarily expose sensitive information. But yeah, it is one way that you can work around. And one thing that we recommend is why it's okay to give the password to parents. Ask the parents not to give it to someone else because it's only digital map for schools is only meant to use for educational purpose. The pin number is a different story. The pin number should not be given to school to students and parents. It is something that should be only between the teachers and whoever is responsible for the settings of the digital map for schools in your school because if you have the pin number you are able to change the settings. And imagine if I still didn't change the settings from able to save to disable saving and no one would be able to save anything and also your preferences and everything will be tied to your pin number. So very mind that the pin number is restricted because it can change the settings of your digital map for schools. And so that's going back to the drawing tools. I can delete the tools if I don't want them anymore. So I can either delete on click or delete selected to delete selected. I click on select select here my buffer to and then delete selected the buffer to we will be gone. And if I want to delete in a different way I can delete on click. I press on the little click and they will just click on my line and that will be gone. If I can also just decide that I don't want any of that and they can delete all my drawings. If you don't want to you are in a hurry and you don't want to be playing around you just click those errors again. Everything goes back to where they were before. So that is the drawing tools. And now I showed you the saving as well. Let's see the map selectors. So I have different maps and it depends on how zoomed in or out my map is. I can select so this is now gray. That means I can select the map. But as I zoom in, it is going to change into green. And if it wants it becomes green, yeah, I can change different maps. So I have here area of view. And I can change I have two different historical maps as well. So let's say let's do something else. Let's go to Darrington. And I quite like to work with Darrington for the map selector. And I want Darrington in wheelchair. Darrington is nowadays quite a big town. And let's see how it was in 1890s. So I have it ticked here. So I can either tick here where my dot on the top is and it will change the map. Or I can leave it as it was. Let's say Ordnance Survey in the 1890s. And I can just drag this dot here and it will move and transition between maps. So that's how Darrington was in 1890s. And I zoom out a little so that you see there was absolutely nothing here. It was a little parish village, which is here. And right above Darrington, there is a place called Milston. And Milston is this place here with those three houses. In 1950s, Milston is still the same place with the three houses. And Darrington is still quite small. And that is, I'm talking about 1950s already. But you can see that something started growing around Darrington. And when it gets to, and they're moving here again. And you can see that it changed a lot. And as you can see now, Darrington is quite big and quite quick. So you can actually use the map selector to study the growth of towns and cities. You might know a city nearby or in the UK that grew too fast in a short period of time. I think Milton Keynes is a good example of that. And you can study the reasons for that and the infrastructure is the city coping. Actually, Darrington is not coping and they have infrastructure issues because of the speed of growth that they had. And it is all due to these barracks here. They are military barracks that were built during and after the Second World War. And that is what caused sudden growth in this town of Darrington. But Milston is still here. And it is still a place with those three little houses. And if you go to the aerial image, you will find out that actually the reason for that is that it is a farm. So that's why it never became a big town because it's been a farm since the 1890s. Why your Darrington grew a lot in that time. And here are the barracks. So that is the map selector. And you can use for doing historical analysis and seeing how places changed from time to time. And now let's talk about the geography. You can let me see if I am in Darrington. I can look for an image. So I will just go here to image search. And if I click on let's say just delete the stars, it will bring me everything. Every single picture, every single image that is in that map. But I don't want that. I just want a church. And it will bring me every church and everything that is a reference to a church. So basically I have some church here at the bottom of my page. But Darrington seems to have only one church, which is this one here. The number three means there are three pictures. I can either click on the tree or I can click on the pictures here and it will show me. And the only thing is the image in the photograph, they are added by people. And although they are secure and discretized, so they are safe for your students to use. Sometimes you need to be creative about how you go, what title you give, how you search. Like sometimes you look for church and you won't find. Then try again, try with the places of worship. Or try if you are looking for a synagogue, you will try to look specifically for a synagogue. And because, as I said, people who add the pictures, they will give the titles and the information as they feel that it's fit. But not necessarily the correct one or the conventional one or the one that you would use instead. So be aware of that. And if you are looking for something on photograph, make sure to look again in different ways. So there are lots of things you can do. You can look for images and you can study those images and discuss with your students. And, but mainly it's quite attractive for the younger students as well. So they can discover features in their own town, for example. Now, adding your own data, I'm going to start over again and we are going to add our own data to the map for school. So to add our own data, which is this icon here. I will just click and here there are four different types of files that I can use. And the most common one is actually, I don't know why it's not here is the one on top is the CSV file. So as a CSV file, I will show you in a minute, it is this file here. You will have a label. And that is the names of the places you want to add to your map and they are postcode. Don't forget the titles you need to give is label and postcode. Because if you put name here, it might not work. So always use label instead of name. It is very similar to an Excel file. But when you save it, you save as an SV file or CSV file, sorry. So, and I will show you how it works. This one is one I prepared earlier on. So I will choose file and in my folder here, London Touristic Attractions. So let's say you are doing a field work with your students and you want them to go and import. Go and find places in London, for example, and add them to the map. And or you can add that data to the map and then ask students to use the drawing tools to measure the distance. So it is quite confusing here because it's pink that you can also change the markers. So let's see the area of view. Okay, that makes it easier. So you have here London and you have all the, I think I have here 20 different tourist attractions. So you can actually go to the drawing tools and make a line between Kensington policy and the Tower of London, for example, and see the distance. So you can plan and map a nice day out with your students. They can talk about the transportation. You can also have a map of the London subways. You can add here so you can actually add different data to your map all together at the same time. And they will come with the same pointers, but you can always go here and so click on your pointer. I don't want to change anything. And you can change the color of your pointer or even the icon if you prefer. And you can, as I said, draw lines, make measurement, and you can actually plan your day out. You can have different topics and work with them. And you can study with the older students. You can start, I have a set of activities for waste recycling centers around London, so you can see the distance between them. You can use for hospitals. You just need the labels and the postcode, and you can add any data to the map for schools. And you can also add, and I'm going to refresh it again, you can also add a bigger set of data, for example. I have here the Jill Jason, and usually they'll come in a zip file like this one. And I want to know where the national reserves, nature reserves are in the UK. So at the moment I import. So this data I get extracted from our website already in the zip file. So I don't need to do anything with that. I just transfer that directly to my map. It takes a while to load because they are bigger chunk of information than just the label and the postcode. But when they load, you will see you'll be able to identify every place in UK where there are nature reserves. And I have one also for the national parks, which you can identify, and it all depends on the topic you are working on. So you can also print your map. And to print your map, you are going to click on this printer on the top banner, add a title to your map. Let's say test and you can actually have the grid lines or not this time it's not offering, but you can get your drawings in your printing as well. And generate a print file. When you click on generate a print file, it is going to appear on your screen, and you can just accept and print. It will always print what is appearing on your screen. So if you want a smaller image or a bigger image, you have to adjust the image to the size you want to print. So that is my file as it's going to be printed. And I don't want that now. I'm not printing it. So going and reloading again, I'm conscious of time and now I need to go and show you the map information. So every time you move your mouse on your map as you can see the numbers are going crazy. You can actually see the coordinates of your map. If you want to capture the coordinates, you will click on this button here. And then you can at the moment when you click, you have the exactly coordinated. Now I can hover around the numbers won't change because that is the only number that matters to me. And I can again have print my map. So that is all for the coordinate. Now I want to show you the overlays. And the overlays are our last activity here. So let me go back again and refresh. As you can see, I'm quite fond of the refresh button. So for the overlays, you have two types of overlays mainly the GB overlays. And there you can it's only for the Great Britain and it's not appearing. It's great. It gets black as I zoom in. So and other stuff appear. So you can have roads, place names. You can have post codes boundaries and the let's see. As we zoom in more and more, then you are more able to do to use more of the layers so I can use the road names. I can use the national grid. I can use the post codes. And I can use boundaries as well. But my favorite here, principally for the smallest children is the coloring in. So for the coloring in you have to zoom in a lot. So you will stop zooming when it becomes black now. And I don't have a town here. Let me see a place with a busy place. Okay, here. So let's. Yeah, that's the town. And as I zoom in color, I can color in. So if I click on coloring in my map goes black. And I can just print this blank map. This is taking a while. Okay, I can print this blank map and ask my students to color in. So that is a good activity for when you are specifying different buildings and the significance of them. And again, what I can do is press on print. And I can generate a print file. And my print file is going to look like this in here. So I can give to my students and ask them to print. This only works for the Great Britain maps, because it's in the GB overlay. And as I said, there are fundamentally two types of overlay, the GB overlays and the word overlays. So the word overlays, they are fantastic for the more mature students, because with the word overlays, you can discuss all sorts of issues. And like for example, word climate, you can do a comparison in the temperature when between 1970s and 2000 and between 2010 and 2018. And you can even put an overlay on top of the other and make one more transparent than the other. And also check the projected temperature until 2040 from 2020 to 2040. And that is quite interesting so they can actually work with predictions, you can even use these formats, for example, for average predictions and so on. And the same for precipitations. You can have the word human geography, which will show word places names and populations and word places names is still great out. Don't understand why population density. So if you click on population density, you will see, for example, you can study with your students why some parts of the world are heavily populated, why others are not and sometimes in the same country in the same continent. So they can understand, for example, the concentration of people along the Nile River and why that concentration over there in the, yeah, there are loads of things you can discuss with your students on the population density. And you can also go to the time zones and study different time zones. One thing I only learned once I started working here is that there is such a thing as three quarters of a time time zone. And so you can discuss that with your students as well. So if you go to World Physical Geography, then you can have the biomes, which is a fantastic resource for discussing where the forests are, what type of forest, what type of vegetation. And you can have mountain range. You can get overlay on top of overlay. I'm not doing that now because I want to show you them individually. So we have a mountain range. So you can start that as well. Volcanoes can check with your students where volcanoes are and even compare them with tectonic plates. And if the tectonic plates are too strong, we can have just the boundaries as well. So yeah, I suggest you just go away and play with the overlays. They are quite self-explanatory and the only thing about them is what you want to do with them because it's just a click away for you to have a multitude of resources which you can explore with your students. And you can have the latitude, longitude grid and the major lines if you don't want too many lines. So depending on the age and the stage of your student and the top you are going about. Okay. And the last thing I want to show you is this question mark on the top banner. If you click on this question mark, it will take you to Digimap for Schools, how to guides. You can go around those guides and look at everything that you need to know. Everything will be here and will be explained to you. And some of the guides are with videos as well so that you can understand better. You can also click on webinars. And here you have a list of the future webinars with Digimap for Schools and you can sign up just by clicking. And you can also look at the learning resources. There are over 150 learning resources for primary, secondary and early years. And you can just go and play with those resources and check and see what suits you, what you would like to explore. So they are divided by topics. And some of them will explore different drawing tools, the others overlays and so on. So they will work with different areas, different tools in Digimap for Schools. So back to category. The secondary will also have a similar range. So you can start climate change and earthquakes, for example, emergency rescues, exploring the world biomes. There is an array of activities you can do with your students with Digimap for Schools. And that is us in a nutshell. I will stop sharing now. And if you have any questions, please let me know on the chat or you can even ask in person and I will answer to the best of my knowledge. Thank you very much. And if you want to stay for the questions, please feel free. If you don't, thank you very much for attending and hope to see you soon.