A Word from Google Lit Trips founder Jerome Burg
After 18 years, the Google Lit Trips project is announcing that it is in the final stages of winding down and concluding its operations. We intend to close up shop within the next few months.
From its very beginning, Google Lit Trips have been provided to parents, educators and their students without cost. I’d like to express my gratitude to the 42 Google Lit Trips developers, to those Google Lit Trip fans who have found it in their hearts to make donations that helped defray our overhead costs, to all of the authors who have published articles in professional and scholarly publications promoting the Google Lit Trips project and to so many others.
I am particularly grateful to Kevin Amboe, Teresa Pombo Pereira, Elizabeth Brumbaugh, Kyle Brumbaugh, and Josh Williams who have co-steered the Google Lit Trips project as Board Members for many years.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Jerome
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What are Google Lit Trips?
Google Lit Trips are award winning virtual Literary field Trips where students become virtual traveling companions traveling right alongside characters in stories commonly taught in grades K-12. As students move through the story, Google Lit Trips supplement the learning experience as story locations are mapped on Google Earth, "just in time" resources "3-Dimensionalize" geographical, historical, and cultural influences the characters' experience, with relevant media, thought-provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about "real world" references in that portion of the story. We like to refer to them as "Virtual Reader Ride-alongs."
Google Lit Trips is an internationally-acclaimed educational technology project, recognized by prestigious organizations such as: The Tech Museum of Innovation Laureate Awards; The Goldman Sachs Foundation Prizes for Excellence in International Education; Public Radio International; American Library Association; School Library Journal; International Society for Technology and Education; National Council of Teachers of English; Teacher Librarian, the Journal for School Library Professionals and many others. Google Lit Trips have cited Google Lit Trips in more than 130 scholarly publications.
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