Overview: Google Maps (workshop outline)

• Search & Get Directions
• Satellite View, Terrain View, & Traffic
• Street View
• More... (Photos, Videos, Wikipedia, Webcams)
• My Maps: Browse & Create
• Google Maps Help

1. Access to our collaborative map is here.
2. Add a place marker identifying your favorite place. 
3. Add content to the place marker using the rich text editing tools.
4. Advanced: Change the icon
   
5. Even more advanced: Add an image or other media to the place marker using the HTML editor.
6. Explore some of your colleagues favorite places...

• Pre-School Classroom 
• Lower School Classroom (Grades 1-5)  
• Middle School Classroom (Grades 6-8)  
• Upper School Classroom (Grades 9-12)
• AP Courses
  

• Google Lit Trips 
• American Explorers 
• Clean Watersheds 
• Environmental I-Reports 
• Expedition Lit Trips 
• Poetry of Place 

• Students of foreign languages can be tasked to locate cities, give directions, or create placemarks about museums, shops, geographical features and other cultural practices.
• Chinese Maps - http://ditu.google.cn/
• French Maps - http://maps.google.fr/
• German Maps - http://maps.google.de/
• Spanish Maps - http://maps.google.es/
• Italian Maps - http://maps.google.it/
• Russian Maps - http://maps.google.ru/

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