Google Earth

I heard a really interesting idea from some of my colleagues in my Educational Technology program tonight and I thought it was too cool (and easy!) not to share.

Almost everyone has heard of Google Earth, (www.earth.google.com), but you may not have heard of some of the ways that it can be really helpful with creating meaning and providing a setting and background information for a variety of literature.

If you are introducing a new piece of literature that is based in one or more actual locations, you can show these actual locations using Google Earth. In addition, there is even a collection of the 89 locations that Shakespeare references the most in his plays!

Just as an example of what it looks like in case you have not used Google Earth, here's a screen shot of the happiest place on Earth :) (Disney World)