In our school division we have only lightly explored the Walk With Us Project. It was brought up as a resource during a meeting but I had not explored it further until my last ETEC class where I worked on a group project on different types of virtual tours. This project was developed by a former teacher in Ontario “to help students in remote First Nation communities showcase their hometown and tell their childhood stories through the use of Google Maps Street View.” Essentially the Walk With Us project breaks itself down in two ways. The first is by connecting First Nations communities in a visible Google Map. The interactive map allows you to upload 360’ images of your school and community and once you have uploaded the images you are now part of the map. This allows anyone to visit the communities and learn more about them. The other part of the project is to work with students to help create these visual tours of their communities for storytelling. The, “Students are the historians by interviewing Elders and teaching others about where they live in an immersive and engaging way.” This is a great way to connect communities together and to allow stories to be shared from those communities as well as understanding more about those communities.
Walk With Us Project
Walk With Us Project: https://sites.google.com/view/walkwithusproject/home?authuser=0
(n.a). (2019, July 6). Walk with us project helps First Nation students ‘tell stories of where they live’. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-walk-with-us-project-1.5121822