Upgrading Religion 101 maps with Accordance
I’ve owned the Accordance atlas module for some time, but so far, I’ve usually used it just for my own reference. During this rapidly-fading Christmas break (Pepperdine’s classes begin on Monday, January 7), I decided to replace my old, plain maps with more attractive maps generated in the Accordance atlas. Here’s a sample of the results.
Old map of the Babylonian empire (click to enlarge):
New map of the Babylonian empire (click to enlarge):
The callouts on the second map were done in Photoshop, not Accordance. Aside from that, using Accordance saved me an awful lot of time and gave me more attractive maps to use in my class materials.
5 comments Christopher Heard | biblical world, computers and software
Do you use your maps during presentations? Why not just add the callouts via shapes in Keynote?
Danny, I use the maps both on the web (Blackboard) and in presentations. I have “blank” versions (no callouts) that appear as thumbnails in the students’ reading assignments, with the explicit expectation that they’ll click on the maps to load the enlarged version with callouts. In my Keynote presentations, I generally display the maps without callouts and draw attention to particular areas of interest.
Neat use of the Bible atlas! Can’t wait to add the Bible atlas to my Accordance library.
I just read a post on the Accordance blog stating you can more easily create the labels using a user layer instead of Photoshop. You can also hit the slideshow button & have a live, working copy of Accordance to project instead of going to Keynote. Then just setup Keynote to work with expose & you’re set! Your Keynote slides & a live copy of the Accordance Atlas.
Here’s the link:
http://www.accordancebible.com/blog/2008/01/accordance-atlas-in-classroom.html
Enjoy!
Nate
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One more thing, have you heard of Acorn (www.flyingmeat.com). Its like a lite version of photoshop. Works very well!