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http://www.googlelittrips.com/
Google Lit Trips helps students visit places mentioned in literature taught in the classroom. Lit Trips uses Google Earth to take the viewer from one location to the next, helping the student understand and place the events of a book geographically. Lit Trips contains pre-made Lit Trips for many different novels no matter what grade (K-5, 6-8, 9-12, and even higher education).

Along with visiting the places geographically on Google Earth through Lit Trips, students can view special buildings if mentioned in the novel, and compare the present Google Earth image with an older image from the time period of the text, giving students a new perspective on literature and helping to relate it to real life. Teachers may add their own notes and elements to the presentation as well as using the premade Lit Trip presentations to help explain the events of texts taught in the classroom.

The next technology-related skill I would most like to learn would include presentations and online programs for students to use that I set up and control. This would be wonderful to use because I can control the content and adapt it to classroom relevance. I would like to learn about a program that offers many different variables of this teaching technology and would enable students to view at home, and possibly correlate their homework assignments to.

My future technology-related goals will include ways to incorporate technology in the classroom so that teaching as well as learning is easier. I will utilize many programs learned in this class for presentations and online tools.