In the first week of class we mapped out all of the origins where the students came from that went to the central college in McGraw. This was very interesting because this school was the first to let colored people in and also women. This school was very diverse for it’s time and this created a lot of interesting points on our map.
We each got a group of about 30 students and plugged in their coordinates of their hometown into our map. To see all of the points and see how far people came from for school during this time when travel wasn’t the easiest was interesting to say the least.
Mapping is a very important aspect of history and finding more about people you are learning about. This can be a very useful tool to all of us and can be used in many aspects of teaching and learning. To know how to do this now is important and I believe will be very useful. To be able to visually see all of the point is a lot easier and better to learn than just seeing locations on a page where everyone is from. This is a good tool to have when learning or teaching about different ovations and their relevance.
Garrett Sweeney