Google Lit Trips: Google Lit Trips: Cross-curricular Technology Cross-curricular Technology Integrated LearningIntegrated Learning

Presented by: Laura Bliss, Kelly Hollenkamp, Gretchen Kassel, and Jenifer PhillipsUniversity of Missouri-Fall, 2009ISLT-9471

Technology Integration’s Technology Integration’s ImportanceImportance

Article: Why Do We Need Technology Integration?

Think About it!

What are some ways that you have integrated technology into your classroom’s curriculum?

Sharing Time!Sharing Time!•Discuss ways that you’ve integrated technology into your classroom’s curriculum, with someone sitting close to you. •Share/discuss examples as a whole group

Workshop OverviewWorkshop OverviewDay 1: •What are Google Lit Trips?•How Do I Use Them?

Day 2: •How Can I Tie Google Lit Trips Into My Curriculum?

Day 3: •How Do I Create a Google Lit Trip?

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Google Lit Trips:

•What do you Know?

•What do you Want to know?

So What Are Google Lit So What Are Google Lit Trips?Trips?Videos: Getting Started Tutorials

In Simpler Terms…In Simpler Terms…

Jill Castek and Jessica MangelsonBook Links, American Library Association“Lit Trips are virtual expeditions created by teachers and their students for use in classrooms. These free resources offer a unique reading experience that pairs the exploration of geography with great literature. Google Lit Trips enhance popular stories at all grade levels by taking students on a new form of road trip. Readers will enjoy visualizing scenes and activating their imaginations as texts come to life in full-color imagery.”

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

An Example…An Example…Possum Magic by Mem Fox

Screen Shots of Lit Trip

Let’s Try One Out!Let’s Try One Out! Note: You must have Google Earth installed or Google Lit Trips will not work.

http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/K-5/K-5.html

•Go to the link above•Find a Google Lit Trip that piques your interest•Try it out-Sometimes just “playing around” is the best learning experience there is!•Find at least two new things that you really liked about your Lit Trip!•Find at least one question about Google Lit Trips you may have discovered through your experience today.

Lit Trip DiscussionLit Trip DiscussionWhat did you discover about the

world during your Lit Trip exploration today?

What were some things you liked or really enjoyed about Google Lit Trips?

What are some questions you still have regarding Google Lit Trips?

So Now What?So Now What?Based on your brief experience today,

what are some ways you think you might be able to use Google Lit Trips in your own classroom?

10 IdeasKeep these ideas fresh in your mind

for tomorrow’s workshop!

Wrapping it UpWrapping it UpToday we discovered: • What Google Lit Trips Are• How to Use Google Lit Trips• A Generic List of Possible Ways to Use Google Lit

Trips in the Classroom

Tomorrow we will discover: • How Can I Tie Google Lit Trips Into My

Curriculum?

Day 3: • How Do I Create a Google Lit Trip?