I decided to use Historypin for my Web 2.0 project. On the Historypin website you can upload your own photographs and "pin" them to a specific location on a map. You can even zoom in to the street level on the map. The idea is to compare what the area looks like today with a photograph showing the same area at a different time. For example, you could upload a photograph of you in the house you grew up in and compare it to what the house looks like today.
The website was relatively easy to use. My only complaints are that I had some trouble with loading photographs from the Internet and I had trouble finding the proper street level view on the map that I desired. I tried to show a picture of an historic park in Cincinnati when it was built to what it looks like today and the only street level view available for the address I entered into the map showed the street running alongside the park and not the actual park entrance that I wanted to show.
The few disappointments notwithstanding, I like what the site does and I can envision using this website as an educational tool in the classroom.
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