I have seen a Google Lit Trip created by Jerome Burg once before and saw a new application of it this week. The premise of the Lit Trip is to use Google to placemark locations in a book that the class is reading. This is such an incredible way for students to engage in the book. †The new application was not just for trips in books, but as either preparation or review of a field trip.
Why would anyone bother to go through the work of creating a trip in Google? Well one advantage you have in the literature world is that many other passionate educators have already created them. You can just use them to engage your students.
What I saw this week at the Apple Distinguished Educator Summer Institute was creating a trip for a trip. I immediately saw the additional potential of having the students being a creator of a trip either for the field trip or the novel they are reading in literature circles.
Creating the Lit Trip would provide an engaging assessment tool that would easily demonstrate students critical thinking through finding main ideas or key events in a story and finding ways to represent them. Students could also share their learning with their peers further deepening their own understanding of what they are reading.
Another of example of literacy in action.
Jerome Burg is an incredible Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Educator in the US who has taken on the Lit Trips project.
Check out his site for more great ideas and ways to create and use this powerful mashup. http://www.googlelittrips.com/
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