Google Maps, Google Earth, and Mashups for Each

How are these tools being used in and outside of the classroom?

Examples:

Seventh Graders  map current events on this Google Map.

Go Here to check out some of the Google Map Mashups that others have created and that you can access.

Check out Wild Sanctuary, a  Google Maps project in which people all over the world record sounds in the wilderness and then map them on a world map. Fascinating.

There are more examples on this website,  which makes use of the "My Maps" functions.  Click on the links on the lower right side of the screen to see a wide variety of examples.

Using Google Earth in Children's Writing:  Start with this blog first post in a series  for an example of how a teacher uses Google Maps to set a children's story within a real setting to spur detail, imagination and creativity.  Very Cool.

Google Lit Trips uses Google Earth to map settings of literature... great resource.

Getting Started:

Start Here for a video tutorial on using "My Maps" on Google Maps, where you can pinpoint your own locations, add photos, video, and audio,  and share your customized maps.

More "how to" support:

Check out the posts tagged "Google Maps" or "Google Earth" on this blog on digital geopgraphy.

Check out Google Earth tools here.

Google Street View

Dave Jakes provides video tutorials here for using Street View -- the Google Maps function that takes you down to actual photographs of the streets on Google Maps.  He uses an example of showing kids the intersection in Dallas where JFK was killed.  You can "turn" to look up and down the street, look up at the window where Oswald was,  zoom in on the actual window.