APPEALING TO VISUAL & EXPERIENTIAL LEARNERS

Shaun Longstreet & Katrina Adams

University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/oee/

Quick Facts
Cool Iris • Free browser plug-in for MS Internet
Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Flock
• Leverages specific search engine sites
Cool Iris is a web browser add-on that users can leverage internet such as Google, Yahoo!, Flickr,

searches for photographs and videos. It is quick and more efficient Photobucket, YouTube, and Hulu.
• Is enabled on a variety of other websites
than traditional search engines for looking at images.
such as Getty Images, Facebook the LA
Times and many more.
http://www.cooliris.com/ • Very fast method for gathering and viewing
a large collection of photos and videos
• 3D wall allows for rapid browsing
Download the add-on application and follow instructions provided. hundreds of images.
• Users are able to collect images into a
If you would like to save images for later viewing/presenting, it is necessary
“Favorites” basket - useful for later
to set up an account.
recollection and/or presentations.
• Allows users to send images to others.
Navigate using your mouse or keyboard. Zoom in by clicking on an image.
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Cool Iris Activity One

The physics of bridges (Compression): Given the three types of bridges below, find examples of beam,
arch and suspension bridges; save them to your Cool Iris favorites folder and be prepared to indicate
where the points of tension are during discussion.

Cool Iris Activity Two:

Religious Architecture ____________________________________ ____________________________________

Go to Cool Iris full screen, pull down to the

Flickr search, enter: ____________________________________ ____________________________________

Singapore Hindu Temple

____________________________________ ____________________________________
Write down on the right, what you see as
common features in the images of the
____________________________________ ____________________________________
buildings that you see.

When you have finished the activity, in the ____________________________________ ____________________________________

same Flickr search, enter:

Singapore Chinese Temple ____________________________________ ____________________________________

Now compare similarities and differences ____________________________________ ____________________________________

in the features you see in this new set of
images.
____________________________________ ____________________________________

Shaun.Longstreet@utdallas.edu Katrina.Adams@utdallas.edu
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Google Maps Street View Quick Facts

• Free, web-based application.
• Allows exploration of many urban areas
in the United States.
http://maps.google.com/
• Cities are continually being added in
There are no downloads necessary. the U.K. France, Italy, Netherlands,
To navigate a street view, put in an address in the maps.google.com search bar that is Google street Spain, Australia and Japan.
view enabled.
• Is integrated with Google Maps and
To check if a location is street view enabled, look for a small yellow human silhouette in the upper left Google Earth.
corner of the map (above the zoom bar). Click on the silhouette and drag it to the map. Any street
that turns a blue color is street view enabled. • Users are able to add photos to
locations on Google Street View for
Lines should appear in the street view that indicate the street.
additional visuals.
Navigating in street view may be done with a mouse and keyboard (e.g. left, right, up, down arrows)

It is possible to rotate your view and zoom in and out to look at things more closely.

Shaun.Longstreet@utdallas.edu Katrina.Adams@utdallas.edu
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Google Street View Activity

Go to maps.google.com and enter 900 Grant Street, San Francisco, CA. Go to street view. Head north,
looking around the street as you go. Continue until you reach Pacific Ave.

What do you notice about this neighborhood? Can you find a grocery store? Can you find three restaurants?
Anything else you notice about this neighborhood?

Now take a look at Chinatown in Paris, France. In the search bar, enter the address: 190 Avenue de Choisy,
75013 Paris, France. Click on street view and head south east down Avenue de Choisy until you arrive at Rue
de Tolbiac.

Can you find a grocery store? Can you find three restaurants? Anything else you notice about this
neighborhood? How is it similar to what we saw in San Francisco? How is it different?

Now, based upon what you have observed in these two neighborhood walks, write a paragraph about
what this say about cultural and ethnic expression in these two countries?

Results from TXDLA Brainstorming Activity: Compare
signage
in
different
parts
of
the


world
‐

marketing
Story
creation
from
street
view
(choose
a

character,
place
a
character
in
neighborhood) Cool
Iris
for
advertisements
(YouTube)
Group
work
on
projects
to
compare
(Cool
Iris) Scavenger
hunt
in
a
neighborhood
for

exploration
Create
a
group
account
for
favorites.
Look
at
archeological
and/or
monumental

Genealogy,
look
up
your
roots
(Street
View) sites
(Street
View
and/or
Cool
Iris)
Compare
neighborhoods
(sociological
–
Street
 Cool
Iris
Ideas:

volcanoes;
clouds;

View) geographical
formations;
presidential
ads/
speeches
(YouTube);
MRI
–
spine,
knees;


Look
at
different
modes
of
transportation
in
 Spanish
missions.
Street
View

Instantly
compare
artists
and/or
movements


Shaun.Longstreet@utdallas.edu Katrina.Adams@utdallas.edu