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Google Lit Trips is a project being developed as part of the Google Certified Teachers program.
However, Google Lit Trips is not affiliated with or sponsored by Google Inc.
A Different Way to Read Great Literature!
This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!
Welcome to Google Lit Trips!
Presentations...
Are you presenting on Google Lit Trips? Let me know. I’ll feature your presentation here.
October 16 San Jose, CA Innovative Learning Conference sponsored by CUE and FETC. Presented by Jerome Burg
October 24 Vancouver, BC Computer Using Educators of British Columbia. Presented by Kevin Amboe, developer of the Hana’s Suitcase and Underground to Canada GoogleLitTrips.
November 22, 2008 San Antonio, TX
National Council of Teachers of English Conference presented by Jerome Burg and Jill Castek.
What’s New in Google Lit Trips...
September 24, 2008
New Lit Trip for Arthur Dorros’ Abuela
June 22, 2008
Revised version of My Brother Sam is Dead with new downloadable teachers’ guide
June 18, 2008
“Google Lit Trips: Bringing Travel Tales to Life”
by Suzie Boss featured in Edutopia Online
May 2008
GoogleLitTrips featured in American Library Association’s Book Links
May 10, 2008
Lit Trip for Karen Levine’s Hana’s Suitcase
April 28, 2008
Lit Trip for Tomie DePaolo’s Big Anthony: His Story
March 2008
Revised Version of Make Way For Ducklings posted. Now with reading questions.
March 31, 2008
Lit Trip for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
March 25, 2008
Lit Trip for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
