Ridgewood Map Challenge

You can add videos and photos (and more) to a Google My Map!? Yup! It's really a fantastic feature of Google My Maps; it allows the maps to come alive with rich, home grown, content. Any project, unit, experience can be easily published and distributed on a map in video, photo, text and more.

We decided to go for it. We spent some time struggling with a bug here or there, but in the end, each participant added video to a personally created map. Surprisingly simple. We're ready to go and start making maps for our courses and sharing the tools with our students and colleagues.

EMBED!

Note! Teachers, when you embed your video from YouTube, be sure to turn off the 'Include related videos' check box. You never know what videos are going to show up here. Often videos relationships are based on keywords, and algorithms, not on the topic or true human judgment. The internet, no matter how many people participate, is not actually intelligent. :-)

Want to try our Map Challenge? This is the map course we worked on today:
https://sites.google.com/site/mapsinquiry/video-links

Have a cool idea for a Google My Map project? Share it here: http://goo.gl/mod/sNGU


Get out there and have fun!