Additional Google Lit Trips resources can be found at these associated websites...

Authorized Google Lit Trips Videos: http://vimeo.com/groups/googlelittrips

Google Lit Trips Videos Posted by Others: http://goo.gl/fr2GU

This link actually does a search for any videos that may have been posted about Google Lit Trips. For the most part, these are “unauthorized” however, many include valuable tips and considerations for those wishing to build their own Lit Trips.

Google Lit Trips Reading List: http://www.scoop.it/t/google-lit-trips-reading-list

Google Lit Trips Reading About Reading: http://www.scoop.it/t/reading-about-reading

Downloadable Step-Guides

Building Lit Trips Basics.pdf

Basics of Viewing a Google Lit Trip.pdf

Finding Hard Locations.pdf

FormattingPlaceMarkers.pdf

Place Marker Icons.pdf

Creating the Best View.pdf

LitTripPaths.pdf

Copyright Friendly Images.pdf

Classroom Tools

Student Generated GLT Idea.pdf

GLT Collection Form.doc

Google Lit Trips v.2.0

What’s New in Google Lit Trips?

What's Your Story.doc

The concepts for Google Lit Trips can easily be applied to students’ personal writing as well. This document provides some ideas as to how students can do a little introspection in search of their own stories to tell.

GE on iPadsTEMPLATE.doc

This is a simple template for creating pop-up windows that was designed to work on iPads (which they only “sort of” can do now).

However, it was designed to work on computer-based Google Lit Trips as well. So, it’s one simple way to alleviate many of the technical issues associated with developing Google Lit Trips.

Video Tutorials

Placemark Labels and Icons BASIC

When you create a placemark, each will have a label and a visible icon. By default, the label is white. This is fine unless you happen to be marking a location in Greenland; or, even a spot in a concrete parking lot! It’s a simple task to pick text colors and sizes that make the label much easier to see.

Google Lit Trips Practice Materials...

When I do hands-on workshops, I frequently use the following materials related to Henry Wadsworth’s “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” in order to introduce the basics of creating a Google Lit Trip. By providing the materials the time spent in the learning curve can be reduced significantly. However, it is good to keep in mind that perhaps one of the biggest benefits from creating Google Lit Trips comes from the learning students do about the subject from having to find such resources themselves.

The Poem:www.google.com

The Poem (highlighted):

Map of Paul Revere’s Ride: PaulRevereMap.jpg 684×578 pixels

Another map: map_midnight.gif 315×546 pixels

The Midnight Rider Virtual Museum: A Great Virtual Museum about Paul Revere's Ride!

Detailed description of Paul Revere's Ride locations: http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/recreate.shtml

Paul Revere's House: The Paul Revere House

Paul Revere’s Ride (Historical event): Paul Revere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Revere’s Ride (the poem): Paul Revere's Ride (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Revere’s testimony about his ride: Paul Revere - Midnight Ride to Lexington - 1775