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Google Lit Trips Day 2: Tying Google Lit Trips into curriculum

Google Lit Trips Day 2: Tying Google Lit Trips into curriculum. Presented by: Laura Bliss, Kelly Hollenkamp, Gretchen Kassel, and Jenifer Phillips University of Missouri-Fall, 2009 ISLT-9471. Review of Workshop Progress. Day 2: How Can I Tie Google Lit Trips Into My Curriculum? Day 3:

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Google Lit Trips Day 2: Tying Google Lit Trips into curriculum

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  1. Google Lit Trips Day 2:Tying Google Lit Trips into curriculum Presented by: Laura Bliss, Kelly Hollenkamp, Gretchen Kassel, and Jenifer Phillips University of Missouri-Fall, 2009 ISLT-9471

  2. Review of Workshop Progress • Day 2: • How Can I Tie Google Lit Trips Into My Curriculum? • Day 3: • How Do I Create a Google Lit Trip?

  3. REVIEW • Important points made in Day 1: • What are Google Lit Trips? • Lit Trips are virtual expeditions created by teachers and their students for use in classrooms. • Think back to the 10 generic ways to use Google Lit Trips from Day 1…. • Would these ways fit into your curriculum? • Talk with your groups for a few minutes on how you believe they do or do not fit into curriculum.

  4. Communication Arts Curriculum • Let’s take a look at the grade level expectations for the state of Missouri. Look at your current grade level. • GLE’s • How could we use Google Lit Trips to meet one grade level expectation? • Record your thoughts in the “L” (learned) section of your worksheet.

  5. Brainstorm Objectives • What objectives will be met by using Google Lit Trips in communication arts?

  6. How to search for Google Lit Trips that fit curriculum • Go to the Google Lit Trips website • Search for a completed trip that fits into your curriculum.  • To do this just click on the grade level tabs along the top of the page.  • Each level has at least a dozen completed trips posted.

  7. Let’s Explore… • Go to Google Lit Trips using the directions listed on the previous slide. • Keeping the objectives you selected previously in mind, search through the Google Lit Trip database. • Take note of useful Google Lit Trips • Share these useful Lit Trips with your grade level colleagues.

  8. What we cannot find…. • Note any Google Lit Trip topics that were not listed that you are looking for that would tie to your curriculum. • What literature would you like to use. • Work with your colleagues to brainstorm these Lit Trips you would like to create. • We will be taking these ideas and producing usable Google Lit Trips in day three of the workshop.

  9. Comments about Google Lit Trips • Traci Gardner noted on the Google Lit Trip Website • (http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Kind_Words.html) • “This one tool can provide cross-curricular connections, literary exploration, and 21st century literacy skills. It’s simple. Literary Maps + Google Earth = a great classroom resource!”

  10. Wrapping it Up • Today we discovered: • How to search for Google Lit Trips that fit curriculum. • How easy Google Lit Trips can fit into our grade level expectations. • What objectives we feel could fit a Google Lit Trip. • Tomorrow we will discover: • How Do I Create a Google Lit Trip?

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