Google Maps as a News Tool

For my Google map project, I spotlighted the Musical Instrument Service Center, which is the building located under the blue awning in the above photo. The map “Newcomer’s Guide to Northeastern (NU) can be viewed here.

Google Maps can be a very useful tool for subjects just like this one. If you’re new to a city like Boston and/or the Northeastern area and need a one-stop source to find all your dining, entertainment, recreation and general service needs, a tool like the map I linked to above would be perfect. This isn’t the only potential use for a custom-made Google map. Areas where majors crimes have been committed could be plotted to give research ideas to journalists, among others.

If you would like to donate money to support groups raising disaster relief funds, how convenient would it be to find a Google map with several locations plotted in one place? The map for the Global Heritage Fund is, well, global, rather than local, but it’s a perfect example of using Google Maps in the way that I’m describing.

One of Northeastern’s Own Professors an Emmy Award-winning musician

BradHatfieldMusic.com

Please check out my article for this week’s issue of Northeastern’s Huntington News as a guest correspondent. The article is a profile piece on one of NU’s own part-time professors, Brad Hatfield. His career as a musician spans over 20 years and dozens of movies and television shows that have featured his work, including the Academy Award-winning Mystic River.

Hatfield has a passion for teaching music as well as creating and performing it. In addition to teaching several music-related courses here at NU- including film music- he has taught classes at the Berklee College of Music right here in Boston as well, providing a tremendous amount of skill and real world experience to aspiring musicians.

Hatfield has a lot of useful things to say about his profession, and it would apply to anyone entering the real world and not just musicians. Needless to say, the man is an unsung Boston hero. For those of you who weren’t aware of who he is, I’m glad to shed some light on his quietly remarkable career.