Students living in the United States often have difficulty imagining far away places. Students in a high school French class in South Windsor, CT, expanded their knowledge of West Africa as they visually explored and created their own video journals of an imaginary trip. Each pair of "travelers" went from one location to the next and included "pictures" of their discoveries. They presented what they had learned by creating video journals, which they narrated in French. The videos were created using Garage Band and iMovie and imported into Google Maps projects.

7th Grade students in Frank H. Harrison Middle School, in Yarmouth Maine, studied about Indian tribes that are part of the state's history and culture. Today, there are four Maine tribes. They are the Maliseet, Micmac, Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy. Together, they are known as the Wabanaki, which means "people of the Dawnland." The tribes have their own government, land, and schools. They manage their own lands.

As the students studied about their native American neighbors, they did research on the WEB about the history of the tribes, assembled their notes on Google Docs, searched for images and photos on the WEB, and created Google Slide presentations to summarize what they learned. They cited their sources and created bibliographies at the end of each slide presentation.

High school students of the Asociacion Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa in Rosario, Argentina, learn about and appreciate the culture of England. The students have been studying English as a second language for ten years. The goal of this project was to help the students understand the value of communicating and interacting with people in other countries, outside the classroom setting. Along with doing research about the customs and conventions of the country, reading blogs and materials, and gathering information, the students were given an authentic experience - traveling to England. Students were able to actually see and meet the people, observe the culture, and practice the English language by interacting in a natural, spontaneous environment. Before students visited England, they collaborated with partners as they located information about specific places they wished to visit. They did a class blog and summarized their information by creating Google Site pages, complete with text and images.