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Literary Locations, Events & Walking Tours
The world is awash with literary locations and events! From Anne Frank’s Secret Annex in Amsterdam, The Netherlands to iconic bookstores like Shakespeare and Co Booksellers in Paris, France; from real locations of literary interest like the Addison Street Poetry Walk in Berkeley, California to the world famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon; from the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas California to the Emily Dickenson Museum in in Amherst, Massachusetts; from Denmark’s Kronborg Castle.
There are literary events and places a’plenty to create Google Lit Trip Tours for.
And what if you could make them iPad ready?
You Can!
Imagine students and educators from all over the world using their digital story telling skills to create place-based autobiographical incident stories about personal experiences that had significant impact on their lives.
And, imagine dozens, maybe hundreds, of those placemarks being sprinkled all over the surface of Google Earth.
What do you get? You get Google Earth the book and Google Earth placemarks the chapters!
Imagine your story being published for all the world to enjoy on the Google Lit Trips site!
Now, imagine experiencing those stories as if you were right there in the location where the story takes place!
Check out the sample story I created about the time I had my photographs critiqued by Ansel Adams, the famous photographer, right in Yosemite National Park where Ansel Adams took some of the most famous photographs in the world!
Sometimes opportunities arise that just go off the beaten path of the Google Lit Trips Project’s primary focus, but they just have to have a place like these author collaborations!
