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Google LitTrips. Evelyn Wassel, Ed.D . STEP2013 June 2013. What Are the 4 Basic Components of a Story?. Character Conflict Plot Setting. Where Does a Story Take Place?. Bookmapping Can Help: Students recognize or create connections between different areas
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Google LitTrips Evelyn Wassel, Ed.D. STEP2013 June 2013
What Are the 4 Basic Components of a Story? • Character • Conflict • Plot • Setting
Where Does a Story Take Place? • Bookmapping Can Help: • Students recognize or create connections between different areas • Lowest level – plot location to integrate geograpg and literature • Analyze setting • Connect • Actions • Behaviors • Culture of characters in different places • Where the story unfolds
Bookmapping Can Help: • Create active learning environment • Students • ID locations • Do research to find locations of settings not overtly mentioned
You Are Already Doing… • Character maps • Comparison maps • Vocabulary maps • Sequence maps • Semantic maps Have you considered using actual maps????
HOTS • Visualize connections and relative relationships • TRANSFER OF LEARNING • Increase collaboration (for teachers too!) • Integrate technology • Learning with technology • Not learning technology
Google LitTrips • http://www.googlelittrips.org/ • A collection of Google Earth (KML/KMZ) files that follow a piece of literature. • Elementary, middle, and high school classes. • Combines 21st century literacy skills with 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century literature. • Places students in the middle of a story and with Google Earth they are able to follow a character (or characters) virtually through a tale.
Google LitTrips • Integration • The Cay by Theodore Taylor • Students create bookmap • Track data of recent hurricanes • Technology • Geography • Literature • Meteorology
How to • Tutorials take you step-by-step through the process of adding placemarks and embedding multimedia information. • Home page Getting Started watch the demonstration videos that show you how to use this resource. • As you plan a lit trip, think about information that will help your students envision places they have never seen. • Linkto references that will give them a better understanding of the story's real-world historical, cultural, and geographical context. • Embed just about anything you find online, from song lyrics to broadcast-news clips. • Lit Trip Tips to provide more detailed instruction about everything, from formatting placemark descriptions to adding route paths. Home page Downloads etc. Lit Trip Tips
Explore • Explore a Google LitTrip from the site and be prepared to share out with a partner. • What did you like? • Describe the features embedded in the file. • How can you use this in your field?
Your Turn!!! • Create a LitTrip!!!