Your Name and Title: Jerome Burg, founder, Google Lit Trips
School or Organization Name:
Google Lit Trips (retired educator, Granada High School, Livermore, CA)
Co-Presenter Name(s): none
Area of the World from Which You Will Present:
San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Language in Which You Will Present:
English
Target Audience(s):
K-Higher Ed educators, administrators, and IT support personnel
Short Session Description (one line):
Travel alongside characters from the world's great journey stories through virtual ride-alongs via Google Earth!
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
The Google Lit Trips project tracks the travels of great literature on the surface of Google Earth. Students virtually travel alongside characters as they read the stories of great literature. At each stop along the way, pop-up windows provide some combination of media, discussion starters designed to stimulate higher level thinking and constructivist bridge building between the world of the students' lives and the trials and tribulations of the characters they are reading about, related website links that enhance the reading experience by "3-dimensionalizing" the story with "bonus information" about historical, cultural, and geographical references made in the story.
All resources are provided without cost to the end-user at GoogleLitTrips.org.
An approximation of the presentation components
(25%) A quick overview of the Google Lit Trip project for those not already familiar with its available resources and purposes.
(65%) Overview of Project's New Directions
- New options for student/teacher collaboration in the development and publishing of Lit Trips generated via online crowd sourcing
- New options for cross cultural global collaborations
- Expansion of project focus beyond literature to include both student and educator created place-based personal writing & publishing options
- Development of mobile resources for blended virtual and real Literary tours (i.e., mobile device-based walking tours of literary locations such as Steinbeck's Cannery Row or the Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival etc.
- New student local literary locations projects, author homes, settings
- Overview of the new video tutorial library to support classroom integration
(10%) Q&A
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:
http://vimeo.com/groups/googlelittrips
http://vimeo.com/googlelittrips/techaward
http://www.scoop.it/t/google-lit-trips-reading-list
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