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Dr. Alice Christie's 2016 CAMLE Presentations

Engage, Excite, and Empower Middle School Students by Using and Creating GoogleTreks™

Explore GoogleTreks™: student-friendly, web-based instructional units that contextualize learning by combining authentic text, images, videos, audio clips, charts, graphs, podcasts, historical/scientific data, & user-created data to motivate digital-age learners. Created using Google Maps, GoogleTreks™ use clickable pushpins that lead to content, questions, & challenges that guide learning.

Dr. Christie's Presentation

Resources:

• GoogleTreks.org
• GoogleTreks™ Video
• Google Maps
• Google My Maps

How to Create a GoogleTrek™

• Create a New Map
• Introduction to Google My Maps
• Google Maps Video Tutorial
• My Maps Google Help
• Google Maps Tutorial
• Everything Teachers Need to Know About Google My Maps