Make Your Own Google Maps…Too Cool!
Ok, so check it out, dawg… here’s an example of what you can do with the new “My Maps” feature from Google. Go on…go look.
Ok, so check it out, dawg… here’s an example of what you can do with the new “My Maps” feature from Google. Go on…go look.
Now, if your head ain’t swimmin’ with ideas like ours is… Our children don’t know it yet, but they just became the map makers for all travel related to the Richardson family. (And we just figured out that the whole clan is going to Australia this summer.) We can’t wait to show them this.
We know this isn’t news, but this is the kind of stuff that still gives us butterflies. Stupid, we know. It’s also the kind of stuff that we want to go running into schools with, shouting “Look what our kids can create! Look what they can contribute!”
It’s a great time to be a learner, isn’t it? Very cool…
(And PS…if you haven’t seen this yet, check out Step #19 in the directions Google gives in getting from our town to Stockholm, Sweden where our relatives live…too funny.)
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