This document provides tutorial instructions for creating a Google Map with three vacation spots. It outlines the steps to title the map, search for and drop pins on locations, and add details like descriptions, images and links for each spot. Key steps include logging into Google Maps, searching for locations, adding pins, and using text formatting, image and link tools to provide additional information before saving and finishing the map.

1. Get to know Google Maps
Tutorial instructions from
http://googletreks.org/tutorial/index.htm

2. Go to google maps http://maps.google.com/
Select “my maps” and
log in with your
mychawanakee.org
email

3. You will be creating a Google Map of 3
vacation spots you have been to or that
you would like to go to.
Title: My Vacation Spots
*SELECT “SAVE” AFTER
GIVING YOUR PROJECT
A TITLE

4. Now it's time to
travel virtually to
the first stop on
your tour. Type in
the address or
landmark you wish
visit virtually
In the left column, a
list of possible sites
that match your
search appears.

5. Map View
In the main
screen, a map of
possible sites that
match your search
appears.
Satelite View
Zoom in to locate
your exact site

6. Look in the upper right side
of the screen for your map
tools
Click on the
Pushpin(middle) Tool
and then click on the
exact location of the first
stop on your tour.
A window, as shown on
the right, appears.

7. Add a title for the first stop on your tour
When you click on the
default blue pushpin, a
wide choice of icons
appears. Use any of
these icons, or create
a custom icon

8. Now add a description of
the first stop on your tour.
Remember to click Save
frequently!
Click on the Rich text
button to bring up
additional tools, similar
to tools within a word
processing program.
Highlight the text you
wish, then change its
font, color, etc.

9. How it's time to add
links to the Web.
Highlight the text
that will become a
link, then click on
the link icon.
A dialog box
appears
requesting the
URL for your
external link.

10. Paste the URL of
the web site that
will allow learners
to click from your
tour to the Web for
additional
information.
Now you text appears
as a link: blue and
underlined before it's
visited, and purple and
underlined after it's
visited.
You can create links to
videos or any other web
sites in the same way.

11. Now it's time to add
graphics. You can link only to
graphics of the Web. We will
use Wikipedia. Remember
Google Images is blocked
so you will have to be more
creative

12. Go to http://www.wikipedia.org/
At the bottom of the screen type in your
search term. Our example is “Disneyland”
On the far right of the article there is an
image for the entry. Click on the image for
the full size version
Remember you can only link to images on
the web.

13. Copy the URL from the
address line, and then
return to the Google Map
you are creating.
OR: right-click/ control-
click for image properties
and copy the URL.

14. Click on the
image icon.

15. Paste the URL of
the web site
containing the
image you have
just found in your
image search.
Click OK.
Your image appears
in your tour.
(AWESOME!)
Important - the image will go where
your cursor is so be careful it is not
in the middle of a word

16. VITAL STEP: Save all your
work. The Save Button is in the
left column. Then click Done.
Phew! It get's much easier the
second, third, fourth .... time
around!