Have you ever read a history book or a literary tale and wondered where the places were that they spoke about? In this episode, we are going to take a deeper dive into lit trips. A great activity for students.
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What Is a Lit Trip?
Basically, you plot book characters or scene locations on Google Earth. You can follow the journey of the characters. Lit trips help bring stories to life. It is a form of augmented reality. When you are done creating a lit trip, you can then export the file and share it with others. You can also narrate the lit trip by creating a screencast.
English teacher and technology-integration coordinator Jerome Burg helped to develop the concept of lit trips and put it on the map.
This week, we are going to explore the concept of lit trips and explain how you and your students can get started.
Additional Reading
- ITC: 14 – Using Augmented Reality in the Classroom
- Growing Up in Tunkhannock, PA – A Google Map Story
- Growing up in Tunkhannock, PA, pt 1 (video)
- Growing up in Tunkhannock, PA, pt 2 (video)
- Growing up in Tunkhannock, PA, pt 3 (video)
- Book Review: The Liberator: One World War II Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey From the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
- Book Review: The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
- Lit Trips on Chromebooks with the New Google Earth
- Historical GIS of the Normandy Invasion (Operation Overlord)
- Catching Characters with Google Lit Trips (video)
- Google Earth Library
- Lit Trip Library
- Tech Infusion Google Lit Trips
- Google Lit Trips
- Google Lit Trips: Bringing Travel Tales to Life
- Resources for Creating Google Lit Trips
- American Revolutionary War – Battle of Fort Ticonderoga 1777 (overlay map) – Google Earth Hacks
- Instruction with Google Earth
- Bookmapping: Integrating Reading with GIS Technology
- Excel To KML – Display Excel files on Google Earth
- How to Make a Simple KML file
- Convert XLS to KMZ Online
- How to Convert Excel to KMZ
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