Exercise: Exploring Google Maps Possibilities

There are so many resources to explore in this realm, and the last thing you need is a multi-hour lecture-demo to expose you to them. Instead, we're going to explore selected sites with a task in mind.

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
Aldworth to Ferguson	Harlan to Johnson	Kohler to Naugle	Rackliffe to Villaescusa
Waymarking.com	Active Trails	Prop 8 Maps	Track This Now
PioneerQuest	Travel by GPS	OpenHeatMap	Google Moon
MapSkip	Meteor Craters	ScribbleMaps	Health Map
The 21 Steps	Marine Traffic	Creating a GoogleShare Map	MapAList
Seek 'n Spell	EveryTrail	Mappler	Roof Ray Calculator
Solar Eclipses	My Moving Map	PlaceSpotting	Impact of Climate Change
Placeopedia	GeoGraffiti	MathsMaps	Gas Buddy
GeoCommons	Hey What's That?	Star Movie Map	IMB Live Piracy Map
SurveyMapper	Google Lit Trips	NOAA Charts	Digital Harlem

Your task is to work in a small group exploring and understanding the one column of links to which you are assigned. Work together to make sure understand what the site is and does. Generate ideas about how it might be used in a purposeful way for teaching, learning, or recreation, or how you could make a similar site for those purposes.

Share your thoughts with your group members on the Exercise 6 forum. Put "Group #" in the subject header of your postings.

Each group should nominate the three sites they're most excited about.

We'll discuss these first thing in Session 3.