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Google My Maps Basics
January 23, 2024 ♦ 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Session Description: Google Maps is a familiar tool for finding directions, but it has so much more potential for dynamic learning in the classroom. Google My Maps allows educators to create customized, interactive maps to engage students with location-based projects across subjects and grades. In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of building customized maps and explore examples of how other teachers have used My Maps to enhance instruction, collaboration, and student projects. Learn strategies for using MyMaps to allow students to guide their own explorations, tell location-based stories, visualize data, and demonstrate their learning.
As a result of this session, educators will:
Build a customized MyMaps demo map incorporating markers, shapes, and multimedia elements.
Explore examples of MyMaps projects and reflect on potential connections to their own instruction.
Plan for their own instructional MyMaps project to try with students.
Applicable ISTE Standards for Educators (2017)*: 2.1.a; 2.1.b; 2.2.c; 2.5.b; 2.7.b
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