Ira Bickoff Creates a New Way to Read Books: Google BookMap

Ira Bickoff uses a new way to read primary source content in his marine science classes at Rondout Valley High School in New York State. Ira creates an overlay inGoogle Maps to create virtual BookMaps to integrate literature into the science content.

If youthinkthese are a traditional “Google Lit Trip” – you’re wrong. Ira is putting the full book text into the map. For lack of a better word, let’s call it a Google BookMap because what Ira has created isn’t a synopsis, but the full book.

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