BatchGeo

Today we learned how to use BatchGeo.  I have used BatchGeo before to map out routes for our football coaches when I was a recruiting staffer at Boston College.  The coaches really liked it.  I could see using this in a history class.  Let's create Lewis and Clark's journey across the West.  How about the voyages of Magellan around the world?  That would be cool.   Like any other software program, it is only good as the data provided.  When I first ran my map, I noticed that my information was missing from the map.  Why was that?  Well, it appeared that I entered my zip code incorrectly. When I entered it in "correctly" 02368 the 0 was still missing.  WHY?  Well,  Google Sheets read that only as a number so it lopped off my leading 0.  Excel will do the same thing unless you format it as a zip code.  I checked to see if Sheets would allow us to do that, but I couldn't find it, so I changed the zip code to text format.  I also noticed that someone from Washington was missing.  I know that that zip code does not begin with a zero.  They probably forgot a 9.  as the old saying goes, you are only as good as your weakest link.  For the one or two of you that actually read my blog (Jenn), here are the directions from Dr. Pierce my professor

My advice is to "Be Careful" and back test anytime you are "computing" something.  My question is, why do I always seem to be "over charged" rather than "under charged" when ever a billing mistake is made HMMM

The project is most closely matches ISTE- 1 Facilitate  and inspire student learning and creativity.  It would be cool for students to create their own maps