Free Offer for Cultural Detectives™ 

ODT will provide three map postcards free-of-charge to all Cultural Detectives™ who send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the address below. The postcards you will receive are: an Africa-centered Peters Map, a Population Map, and a Mecca-centered Azimuthal projection. 

Cultural Detective, c/o ODT, PO Box 134, Amherst MA 01004 USA

Alternatively, when you place an order, put "Cultural Detective" in the "comments" section of the order form (at www.odt.org, go to the web shop). ODT will include the three postcards free with your order.

 

Resource List on Maps and Intercultural Learning 

The Atlas of Experience, and World of Experience Map. Louise Van Swaaij and Jean Klare, English version by Bloomsbury, 2000. Creative and thought-provoking, this book presents twenty-one maps depicting concepts such as boredom, health, and haute cuisine.

Ecotonos: A Multicultural Problem-Solving Simulation. This game can be played with 8-100s of people and simulates multicultural teaming. The debrief uses real and idea process mapping. Also an online users' group at: http://www.interculturalpress.com/shop/ecotonostext.html
Also an online users' group at:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ecotonos/

The Fuller Projection Map (Buckminster Fuller, Spaceship Earth, or Dymaxion Map). Site includes background information, ordering information, and two online puzzles of the map. You can purchase small versions so that learners can have their own map to fold into a globe. http://bfi.org/taxonomy/term/60 

Map Making

• An interesting site explaining some of the processes and dangers of map making. http://wendycarlos.com/maps.html
  
• Map history with loads of background information and articles. http://www.maphistory.info
  
• International Cartographic Association. http://ncl.sbs.ohio-state.edu/95_ica.html
• This site has been up and down recently. If you can catch it, it is terrific, with lesson plans on maps and map making. Links to other sites for additional research. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/teach/mapmaking/intro.htm
  

Maps of the Mind. Charles Hampden-Turner, Scribner, 1982. Maps of various theories of how the human mind works. Fascinating reading, still.

ODT, Inc., Specialists in intercultural diversity, with many map-related products and resources for sale, including combination packs. http://www.odt.org

• Hobo-Dyer Map ($6.00-$9.95), www.odt.org/hdp
  
• Many Ways to See the World (US$19.95). Video on maps, with free online preview. Free with an order over $75.00.
  McArthur’s Universal Corrective Map (US$29.95), http://www.odt.org/southupmaps.htm
• Mercator Map (US$20.00-$49.95—a good example of a “bad” map)
• The Population Map (US$20.00-$29.95, online explanation and audio interview, also postcards and magnets), www.odt.org/pop
• Peters Atlas of the World (US$19.95, 246 thematic equal area maps, including demographic, cultural diversity and economic data)
• Peters Projection Maps (US$9.95-$29.95; free download of the black and white version), www.odtmaps.org/link.htm
• Seeing Through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. Ward Kaiser, ODT, 2001.
  Lesson plans, objectives and activities available at http://www.diversophy.com/tr.htm
  
• What’s Up? South! Map (US$20.00-$29.95)

Saul Steinberg's View of the World from Ninth Avenue, tongue-in-cheek cover of New Yorker magazine on March 29, 1976. Available as a poster or a postcard from many online vendors including http://www.allposters.com

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Edward Tufte, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT, 1997. How to use charts, illustrations, graphics and other visuals as explanations. Contains lots of effective and ineffective examples.

World History Timeline, Schofield & Sims Publishing, http://www.oxfordcarto.com/timeline/time.htm

World Terrorism Map, Maplink, 2002. http://catalog.maplink.com/maplink/maplink/specials_current_events.html

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