In May of 2008, Warren Whatley, Professor of Economics and AfroAmerican and African Studies, won a small grant from the University of Michigan's Teaching and Technology Initiative. His goal is to present the 35,000 entry Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database as an online, interactive map to his Honors Economics class. The purpose of this application is to engage students not only in researching the 17th-19th century slave trade between North & South America and Africa, but to encourage them to contribute to a permanent database which will be made available to the public and will continue to educate and stimulate future generations of students.
In my capacity as an Instructional Technology Consultant, I advised on this project from the writing of the grant, to completion of the current ArcReader iteration of the interactive map for Winter '09 term. My contributions include:
> software evaluation and implementation
> advertising for, vetting, and interviewing student candidates
> training and supervising students working on the project in my office
> day-to-day troubleshooting
> ongoing evaluation and improvement of the map prototype
I continue to support the project as of this writing, as we currently wait approval of a MacArthur Grant to greatly expand the work.
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The maps below represent the slavetrade of 1625. Red stars represent cities and ports of the 17th century. By selecting a point, the user can access a variety of information drawn from a database. Layers on the left-hand side of the interface can be toggled on and off to represent different data.
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