This document discusses various ways to use Google Maps for educational purposes, including teaching geography, literature, history, and school events. It provides examples of using Google Maps to map out locations from books and historical events. It also demonstrates how to create custom maps and tours in Google Maps and Google Earth, including adding pins, lines, icons, pictures, and text. Maps and tours can be shared and used to teach a variety of subjects at different grade levels in an engaging, visual way.

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Jon Corippo
Google Certified Teacher GTAWA 2011

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1 Geography
2 Reading and Literature
3 History
4 School Events
5 Sharing your humanity

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Great technical training from Google
http://www.google.com/
educators/p_maps.html

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There are cool Maps ‘mashups”
http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/

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You can use Google Maps to teach the 5 themes of Geography
http://montessorimuddle.org/2010/09/27/google-maps-zooming-in-to-the-5-themes-of-geography/

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But Jerome Burg has a better idea.

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And that leads to this:

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Author’s book study?

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Bookmapping

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Possible Elements of a good Lit CIRCLE Trip
A book or story with multiple locations
A summary of events for each location
Require two or three
A photo of the place
and allow choice of
two or three. A question or two
A character map
Key quotes
Examples of literary devices

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The Odyssey

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Battle Lists at:
Or use Timelines

18. Time to create a map

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Disaster!
My kids can’t
have Google accounts
at school

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No account needed.
Scribblemaps.com

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Scribblemaps: Save KML is a BIG deal!!
So is “send to friend” (no email needed)

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Advisory:
Rich Text Editing is NOT currently
supported in SAFARI.
October 2011

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If you have Google Access....

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Click on “My places”

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Click on Create Map

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Put in the appropriate info

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Time to start using the tools

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Nudge in any direction

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Set your “home” location

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Drag the map by hand
Drop “pins”

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Add lines from place to place

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Lines can follow roads, too!
Delete Lines here

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Do a search to find your starting point

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Select “Save to Map”, this way
you can customize the pin.

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Or just drop a pin where you like.

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The pin will appear in your list.

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Default pins are boring and do
not represent any tech or learning skills

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Have kids change the icon to be relevant to the subject

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OR: Select “Add an icon”

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In another tab: Find a picture on the web and
RIGHT CLICK - Select Copy Image Address

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Paste it into the box that pops up

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Now you have a custom icon.

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Clicking on Rich text allows easy addition
of custom fonts, colors, highlights, links
and the addition of WEB BASED pics.

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Click here to add a picture

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Go to the picture you want >
Select Copy Image Address
Paste it into this box

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The finished product.

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You can use the line tool as well,
Or the “Follow road” line.

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Why not do
this in
Google Earth?
Google Earth
has no Rich Text
option, which
is where we
are putting the
academic parts
of the lessons!

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Open your Map in Google Earth

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Or Download the .KML file

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Snapshot View locks the camera where you set it.

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Get info allows us to customize the view....
Have the kids aim the camera
N,E,S,W in order on each new stop

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My school tour in Google Earth

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This is a great way to welcome your
students to your class each year.
Have them make a tour for
you, as way to get to know
them and introduce tech to
your back school activities.

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Google Maps and Tours can be:
Engaging, fast and very academic
Supportive of almost every subject and grade level
A great way to make any subject visual, divergent
in nature and yet structured.

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What are you waiting for?
Jon Corippo
jcorippo@gmail.com