Trinity folks hard at work, even during break

Dan, Devlin and I presented on our Invisible-Cities-Google-maps-mash-up work at a faculty development workshop the other day. If you look behind us, you can see a map. I think it's the one on problem properties. Look how happy we look...

Of course, the workshop was not all about maps. The first speaker was Tom Deans, from UCONN's Writing Center. He spoke about the classes he teaches where he has students write about/for/with community groups. The distinction between about/for/with is an interesting one, particularly when applied to our cases with google maps. The maps we made in our class were certainly about the community (abandoned properties), for the community in that we hoped people would use the map as a basis for action, and with the community, in that a local organization requested exactly this map!