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What is Google Lit Trips?

What is Google Lit Trips?. Google Lit Trips is a fun interactive way to get your students involved in Literary works without limiting the students to a book and a piece of paper. Who Created Google Lit Trips?.

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What is Google Lit Trips?

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  1. What is Google Lit Trips? Google Lit Trips is a fun interactive way to get your students involved in Literary works without limiting the students to a book and a piece of paper

  2. Who Created Google Lit Trips? Google Lit Trips was created by Jerome Burg, a school teacher from Livermore, California, in order to get his students more involved in literary works in the classroom

  3. What do you need to have? Google Earth QuickTime player A computer

  4. Awards • 2008 Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education for Media and Technology. • LeRoy Finkel Fellowship from Computer Using Educators, Inc.

  5. How did it get its name? Google Lit Trips, which contains "lit," to show the importance of literature to the application. However, its double meaning is found in the answer to the question, "How can you find out more information about a particular work of literature?" You "Google-it," which, when said quickly, has the same sound as "Google Lit.“

  6. Educational Value • Lesson Plans for ALL ages • Teach students geography and point out important places in US and world history. • Lit Trips can be internationally as well • Lit Trips can be used to teach students about cultures through books from different countries

  7. Where to use it In the classroom or For Fun!

  8. Who does it cater to? Teachers and instructors who want to teach a culturally based lesson Students reading books about other cultures who want to learn more about those cultures

  9. Brought to you courtesy by: Matt Bennett And our international partners: Krista Mehl Emma Conway Joey Gardner Cathy Costigan Lauri Mitchell Africa Canizares Emily Norton Jessica Clusserath Stacy Baute Krystal Zimmerman Jennifer Wilson

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