1. Pack Your Bags
&
Travel With a
Click!
Integrating Google Earth
and
Literature with Multimedia to Create an
Interactive Story
Cheryl Lykowski
2012

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4. Google Lit Trips
Meet the creator!
Jerome Burg
http://googlelittrips.com

6. Why should
I do this?

7. Literary Maps
Multimedia
+ Google Earth
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A great classroom

8. • Combining literary road trips
with the interactive technology
and satellite imagery of Google
Earth puts your students right in
the back seat of an unfolding
journey.

9. • Active engagement
• “It puts the kids right in the
middle of the story rather
than at a desk as the teacher
teaches the story at
them.“ (Jerome Burg)

10. • Media, literature, and the earth
itself converge here in one of the
most exemplary technology
integration
• Virtual expeditions
• Multidimensional learning
experience

11. Strategies that this multimedia
tool support can include:
• Cues, questions, and advance
organizers
• Non-linguistic representation
• Cooperative learning
• Summarizing and note-taking

17. Sounds
great! How
can I use
this in my
classroom?

18. • Choose a book or story that has
a strong sense of place.
• A good story for a lit trip
doesn't have to involve a long
journey.

19. Choose a relevant activity that
involves various places.
• Amazing Race
• Skype Mystery Classes
•World Math/Spelling Day
•Around the World with 80 Classrooms

20. Placemarks Visualize
Information
• Text
• Images
• Web Links
• Video
• Audio
• Icons
• Slides
• Documents
• Navigation

21. You are only
limited by your
imagination!

22. Still sounds
great! How
do I do it?

23. View the location of a field
Google Earth Program Window
trip in Google Earth before
Tool Bars
you actually visit.
Search Panel
Navigation Tools
Zoom Tools
Places Panel
Layers Panel
Coordinates, Elevation

24. Creating Folders to Store
View the location of a field
Searches before
trip in Google Earth
you • Go to the
actually visit.
“Places” folder
• Right-click on
“My Places”
icon
• Add >> Folder

25. ViewSaving Searchesfield
the location of a
trip in Google Click andbefore
• Earth drag
found places into
you actuallyfolder you
the visit.
created
• Make sure the
folder is checked.
• Collapse the folder
• Highlight the folder
by clicking on it.
• Go to File >> Save
As >> Save Place As

26. Creating Basic Placemarks
View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.
Directions
1.Find the location
on earth you want
the placemark.
2.Click on the
yellow push pin in
the toolbar
3.Name the
placemark
4.Enter the text you
want to visualize.
5.Press OK.

27. Editing Placemarks
View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
Directions
you actually visit.
1.Right click on the
placemark in the Places
panel
2.Choose properties from the
menu
3.Placemark will open,
allowing you to add
information.
Hint: In order to change the
location of a placemark, you
need to have the properties
box open.

28. Adding Text
View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
Directions
you actually visit.
1.Right click on the
placemark
2.Go to properties
3.Type in the text
you want
4.Use HTML tags to
organize text

29. Media the location ofOnline
View Needs to Be a field
trip in Google Earth before
• GE uses XHTML
you actually visit. to an
code to refer
image stored
online.
• Use photosharing
sites to store your
photos: Facebook,
Flickr, Picasa Web
Album,
Photobucket, or a
Wiki

30. View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.

31. View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.

32. View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.

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trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.

34. View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.
http://www.meograph.com

35. View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.
http://www.googleartproject.com

36. View the location of a field
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/#!home:page=1
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.

37. View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/

38. Let’s play!
View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.
Image from MommyNature.com

39. Contact me:
View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.
web2.0explorer@gmail.com
techconferences.wikispaces.com

40. View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.

41. View the location of a field
trip in Google Earth before
you actually visit.

42. Pack Your Bags
&
Travel With a
Click!
Integrating Google Earth
and
Literature with Multimedia to Create an
Interactive Story
Cheryl Lykowski
2012

43. What do you get
when you take
great literature
and mix it with
multimedia and
Google Earth?

44. An engaging
lesson that
makes
characters and
their stories
come alive.

45. Learn how to
put your
students in the
driver seat
and ...

46. interact with
the stories and
characters

47. through maps

48. through images

49. through videos

50. and
audio.

51. Create
interactive
maps, virtual
field trips, and
cross-curricular
lessons

52. Pack your bags
for an
adventurous
journey into
Google Lit
Trips!
with
Cheryl Lykowski