Week 12: My Maps
Maps provide context and relevance to topics covered in class and allow students to visualize complex ideas and scenarios. Maps are a fundamental part of everyday life and the development and widespread use of geographic technologies require modern citizens to understand spatial information. For this reason, helping students become competent users and creators of these technologies should be an important element of all of classes. Google My Maps is an online mapping tool, that allows students to create and share their own maps. Students can drop pins at certain locations throughout a map and provide a description of that pin, including a picture or video. Students can add different layers for different regions or topics. Other features available to use in My Maps are drawing a line between multiple locations, adding directions to get to a location, and measuring the distance between locations. Students can all be on the same map simultaneously, collaborating on locating differen
