Reading:
 The next three chapters you’ll read are focused on the relevance and impact of instructional technologies in three different contexts: Business & Industry, P-12 schools, and higher education. This week’s reading, chapter 18, focuses on Business & Industry.

Reflection
What are, in your mind, two unique or interesting or different or noteworthy ways Instructional Design/Technology has been used in business & industry that you believe could be usefully applied to your own professional work? Explain.

Reources:
With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking in preparation for this week's activity (looks like this article is now behind the NYT firewall. I quick way to deal with this without registering is to use the services of BugMeNot)
Activity:
This week, I’d like you all to come up with a creative educational use for the customizable Google Maps that you can pretty easily design. If you go to Google Maps, then click on the tab in the upper-left region of the screen that says My Maps, you can get started creating a new map. You’ll need to sign to do this. If you don’t have a Google Account, create one. There are tools in the upper left of the map you can use to create Placemarks, Lines, and Shapes. There are different shaped placemarks and several ways to edit the lines and shapes.
Here’s an orientation video orientation video
And here’s a page Google put together on Google Maps for Educators
There are two options for the idea you’ll come up with:

1. Come up with an idea for a lesson that would incorporate the use of a map that you would create and have your students use, or
2. Come up with an idea for a lesson in which your students would create their own maps.

This is a website for an outbreak activiy I found in the Google docs resoures:
https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddv49vkt_4gv4sxtcf

May be adapted to fit the map activity and I think I may want to try with my comptuer 1 group. 

As your deliverable, you will describe  in a few paragraphs the lesson you have in mine. This should be in a blog posting. I’m not asking for full-blown lesson plan – just a description as if you had to describe to someone else in a few minutes. You also will create a map. If you choose option 1 above, it will a version (not necessarily complete) of the map you’d give your students. If you choose option 2, it will be an example of the kind of map you’d expect your students to create. (scroll to bottom for some interesting map examples to get your creative juices flowing...)
Embed your map in a new blog entry also (make the link "clickable").
Reflection
What are, in your mind, two unique or interesting or different or noteworthy ways Instructional Design/Technology has been used in business & industry that you believe could be usefully applied to your own professional work? Explain.
Deliverables

1. Post your reading reflection on Blackboard by Thursday night
2. Post your map activity and map by Thursday night
3. Post responses to at least two classmates’ reflections by Sunday night.

Map Examples
European Expeditions to the Canadian Arctic
War and Peace
San Diego County Fires
There are also some links on the left side of the NY Times article linked to above.