Google LitTripsEvelyn Wassel, Ed.D.

STEP2013June 2013

Google LitTrips

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

A collection of Google Earth (KML/KMZ) files that follow a piece of literature. 

Elementary, middle, and high school classes.  

Combines 21st century literacy skills with 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century literature. 

Places students in the middle of a story and with Google Earth they are able to follow a character (or characters) virtually through a tale.

Google LitTrips

Integration

The Cay by Theodore Taylor Students create bookmap Track data of recent hurricanes

Technology Geography Literature Meteorology

How to Tutorials take you step-by-step through the process of adding

placemarks and embedding multimedia information.

Home page Getting Started watch the demonstration videos that show you how to use this resource.

As you plan a lit trip, think about information that will help your students envision places they have never seen. Linkto references that will give them a better understanding of

the story's real-world historical, cultural, and geographical context.

Embed just about anything you find online, from song lyrics to broadcast-news clips.

Lit Trip Tips to provide more detailed instruction about everything, from formatting placemark descriptions to adding route paths. Home page Downloads etc. Lit Trip Tips

Explore

Explore a Google LitTrip from the site and be prepared to share out with a partner.

What did you like?

Describe the features embedded in the file.

How can you use this in your field?

Your Turn!!!

Create a LitTrip!!!