Google Maps as a teaching tool

[Tom Johnson]

For those of us in the teaching business, here are some interesting online applications from Google.

Some interesting new ways to experience literature
<a href="http://www.googlelittrips.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.googlelittrips.org/

And equally early, but interesting, work using Google Earth to teach math concepts and skills.
http://realworldmath.org/Real_World_Math/RealWorldMath.org.html

-- tj

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J. T. Johnson
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