Wednesday 11th January
We use google for quite alot of things, we use if for wikipeidia, we use it to find directions, we use it to view places on google maps! Google maps however is NOT just for finding a place, as I have come to discover you can actually tell stories through using Google maps and this is exactly what we did for our next assignment. We where given a location in Liverpool and then we had to tell a story across five different locations using Google Maps, the locations we choose could be anywhere in the world however our first loaction was none negotiable. The location given to us was the 'Anglican Cathedral' so then we had to think of a way to link this location to other locations in the world. I thought it would be quite boring to just link the location to other cathedrals in the world noting a bit about their history and what not - it wouldnt be something I was interested in looking at!
Therefore we decided to look at the architect behind the cathedral! Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was actually quite a well known architect and is known for a list of amazing buildings and even the famous red phone boxes. We then came up with an idea to pick four of the buildings we thought had most influence on his life or had and influence to society or people around him, we included his family home that he had also designed! Then we created diary entries as though we were Scott and wrote how we thought he would be feeling at the time he was desgining these buildings or what he thought of the outcome! I found this interesting, mainly because i didnt know that you could actually do this on Google Maps but also because I found out alot about a person who was very influencial who I never knew!
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