This is for 11/4

Introduction

The week was spent mainly study and working on a capstone project. I was reminded how to do certain things in GIS.  Put together a few maps that contained information on irrigated land and percent irrigated farmland.

Some information that was found was a newspaper article that had old newspapers that were archived to this site and I did find one artlicle that had information on animals and communication.

Results

The papers have a lot to go through and I will still have to get some more Information or atleast I would like to.  This week I plan to go to the library and do some research with communications and animals at the library.  My main thought would be to have multiple tours of different aspects of the communications lines for Germany as well as the British and Americans.  I did find out that the British used animals more frequently than any other country.  Germany did have a great deal of German Shepherds used in scouting missions as well as using their acute sense of smell.

Newspaper Articles

This is an image of the article I found dealing with animals and Communication

Questions

Neat article on the Sapper in Vietnam.


Well this is a perfect example of saving frequently.

This is the One

Intro

This week consisted af mainly research.  The over all idea is that I ended up choosing the topic of communications in World War One.  There is a good amount of information about this topic on a number of sites.  Down at the end of this post I will have a few links about the topic as well as more precise topic that I found on the website. A very interesting point to make is that because of the number of poor communication lines and radio beacons, a great deal of animals were used often.  The horse was important at the beginning of the war to carry artillery.  The dog was also important for a number of reasons. As well as the most known of the WWI animals the carrier pigeon.

Methods

The methods that were most often used was searching the internet and walking into the library.    

Results

The information I found was a great starter and got me into some great topic choices.  There was also a very renowned Bull terrier that earned a number of awards and metals.  Sargent stubby was his name and he was used a great deal for the beginning portion of the War.  Originally he was snuck onto the ship in the passage over to Europe.  Then after Sargent stubby was discovered he was allowed to stay because of all the soldiers grew to liking him.  He served his duty as bringing a medic bag to wounded soldiers as well as transporting important information to other regiments.  He also served as a scout to pick up the scent of poison gas?  He knows what the gas smelled like being that he survived a few gas artillery shell explosions.

This Bull Terrier was also known to aid and comfort the soldiers in the trenches as well as on the battlefield to comfort a dying soldier.  Stubby's acute hearing and smelling helped to spot spies and lurking enemy soldiers.  

Conclusions

The topic has narrowed down and I have a good idea at what my topic and project could be.  Perhaps the topic could be with Sargent Stubby.  I am also going to put as a reminder to look at Holtstiens books to see if any pigeon story are in there or hope fully a first account would be nice.

Questions

How is the topic of animals as communication if enough information is available?

Would google tour builder work for this any ideas I could use?

Ask Zach if he can use any information on animals in the topic of communications?

Or use the story of Sargent stubby as a google tour? as one small topic.  include other information on communication.

Some information on communications

World war one History in comunication  Very brief description of some forms of communications and which is more effective than others.

Pigeons this is a personal account of a pigeon that saved a great deal of soldiers

Sargent Stubby

Story of War dogs and descriptions



Great site with a personal avcount of a soldier using carrier pigeon and also the site contains information on using dogs as messengers, medics, guard dogs and scouts.

Went on awebsite that presented a prezi power point and found some information.  However, it was vague and had very little information overall.



stubby hero

Ideas for Main Project

Introduction:

The week's overview was mainly thinking about what I could do for a main project and the idea popped into my head regarding the background for my blog.  The silhouette of birds reminded me of the important role of carrier pigeons played in World War One.  It could be a very interesting project for me.  I could map or do a story map of a few different situations where birds played an important role.

The other item on the agenda is the tour builder for Google.  The idea is good and I have enjoyed the concept of flying from one point to another in some of the sample tours on Google.  

Results

Well some great progress was made on the Tour builder from Google.  Here is the link for the Tour.  France The Western France  

My opinion is that is is nice to see the map and some satellite images but I personally like the ArGIS story map a little better.  

And runnin' runnin'!

Introduction:

This week started off with a visit to the library where I found some great WWI atlases.  I will put the background information on those books below.  They are located next to each other in the basement of the library in the oversize section.

Results

The West Point Military History Series  Atlas for the Great War by Thomas E. Griess, Series Editor

Atlas for the Great War by Thomas E. Griess

I also got an opportunity to look into story mapping.  After a brief introduction to story mapping I created the story map below.  My topic was food of France.  Here is an image taken from the story map.  This is the link to the story map itself: Story Map of Food

For a first story map I enjoyed doing it.  There are a few confusing steps but it is pretty user friendly.  Easy to figure out.  I used Facebook and its albums in order to get the pictures in a smaller format