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In collaboration with Citilab

The activity of Write With a Satellite

is an experience for discovering and discuss

the impact of satellites

and the whole concept of geolocation in a broad sense.

And get kids a little bit into the discovery

through its own identity, such as its name,

or one from person they want to make a special gift

of how to make letters with the world.

Whether geographic features or buildings, things made by human beings.

All the activity revolves around provoking a reflection about what satellites really do.

How de they get the information and what are the consequences of that.

And then there's a more esthetic or more graphic side

in seeing how these letters are created with a specific software.

And from there participants generate their adhesive and then have an identity element

that they have to present at the end, practising presentation-related skills...

Seeing what a chromakey has to do with it, an image behind those who present.

The Virtual Tour activity seeks to provoke street navigation,

wandering around urban settings, cities, in a remote way.

We use again an Open Web tool

which is related to the topic of geolocation.

And we try that the participant who is learning

thinks first about his immediate environment.

That is, navigates through the streets of what he knows.

And then we change the context,

into an exploration activity that where we can choose other cities.

Trying to cause some reflection about how would life be outside our context.

Hence the final objective of the activity is again the presentation in front of a camera.

Show knowledge, or at least information about this new context behind the participant.

Pretending that the learner, the person who made this activity,

is in a completely different geographic context.