4+Google+Maps

=Google Maps=

Naples, Italy in Street View
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How To Resources

 * Navigating in Google Maps: A Basic User Guide
 * Google Maps Tour
 * Creating maps using My Maps

Let's Explore!

 * =====Google Maps Layers: Photos, Videos, Webcams, Wikipedia, User-created Maps (type in location in the //Search Maps// box and select //User-created maps// in the //Show Search Options// drop down menu to the right of the //Search Maps// box)=====
 * Creative Commons-licensed media

Let's Find!

 * 1) =====One user-created map (example: type //Buenos Aires// or //Paris, France// in the Google Search box)=====
 * 2) =====One street view (we'll use our friendly little orange Google Guy who is on the top left of our map)=====
 * 3) =====One video, picture and article (*make sure you have selected photos, video and wikipedia under the **More** menu in the map area)=====

While exploring:

 * =====Your home (see if you can view your home in street view)=====
 * =====The Louvre=====
 * =====Rome=====

Let's Explore!

 * ===== Silvia Tolisano's Digital Storytelling Part V—Google Maps =====
 * ===== A Kid's Tour of Latin Music Through Google Maps by Elvira Deyamport =====
 * ===== Art Project powered by Google =====
 * ===== Google Maps in the MFL classroom by guest blogger Simon Howells =====
 * ===== Visit Pompeii (also Stonhenge & Versailles) with Google Street View by Open Culture =====
 * =====Discover UNESCO World Heritage Sites=====
 * =====Google Maps for Educators =====
 * ===== Google Maps Mania =====
 * =====Arounder—Travel and Lifestyle in 360-degree Quicktime VR=====
 * =====TED Talk: Lalitesch Katragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies=====
 * ===== The Ultimate Google Maps Guide to Lisbon . Includes an interactive map and interactive book =====
 * ===== List of Google Maps Resources collected by Barbara Lindsey =====

Questions to prime the pump:

 * 1) =====What kinds of media could we use?=====
 * 2) =====How could we use them?=====
 * 3) =====How could we use these interactive maps to enhance our standards-based curriculum?=====
 * 4) =====How could we use this tool to support the learning styles and abilities of //all// our students?=====
 * 5) =====How could we use them as an assessment tool?=====

=Let's Create!=

Using no more than six places, create a Google Map that shows:

 * 1) =====Where you were born=====
 * 2) =====Where you grew up=====
 * 3) =====Where you live now=====
 * 4) =====Some of the places you have visited=====

Include at least

 * =====one picture you can use legally=====
 * =====one hyperlink=====
 * =====one text item=====

Additional Resources
Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons