Stephen Crawford

TL;DR: The MapStats for Kids project includes work toward assessing the usability of the applications being developed and toward matching the applications with specific learning objectives, and the extensible nature of these applications is an important feature, allowing the applications to be tailored to complement a variety of curricula.

TL;DR: This demonstration will include four of these online learning activities, each focusing on national education standards and cognitive and knowledge abilities of middle school children, and introduce the MapStats for Kids portal which provides access to these applications as well as to supplemental materials that will help educators make use of the applications within standards-based learning activities.

TL;DR: A range of usability testing methods are being applied within the MapStats for Kids project in order to assess web applications developed according to the above requirements.

TL;DR: The design and development of a highly interactive web-based, GIS-enabled atlas that integrates symbolisation and design principles from print cartography, interaction strategies from exploratory geovisualisation, and web-map/web-feature service advances from GIS is reported.