The provision of
location information often plays a large part in communication and is key to
the visualisations used in teaching; however, location information such as
geospatial context is often challenging to convey and thus omitted from
narratives; this is especially pertinent in classroom situations in which the
teacher is constrained by other demands. VocalGeo is a software capability that addresses
this challenge, utilising speech recognition and web mapping technologies to
provide automatic, real-time geospatial context on a dynamic map in response to
the teacher’s and students' speech. This work shows how readily available web
technologies can be used for interactive teaching of geospatial information.