I’m sharing what I have learned at the Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC) about composing in Google Maps (My Maps Google). This program allows you to:

• Create your own, curated maps to embed in websites 
• Invent fun icebreakers
• Create class maps where students work together with text, visuals, and videos to share their primary research
• Transform some traditional assignments like annotated bibliographies into situated conversations

I have made a quick video to show you the possibilities of the program, but I don’t go into the details on how to do things. However, I have linked two videos below that explain all the steps. The program is easy to learn!

Composing in Google Maps

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Thank you Alfred Owusu-Ansah for the great idea of doing a mapped annotated bibliography!

 

Samples maps

 

Village Preservation (GVSHP) Civil Rights & Social Justice

 

OurMap of Environmental Justice

 

 

Help with maps

 

This video explains how to do all the things (and more!) that I discuss in my video.
 

This video explains how to import information from a spreadsheet. Three important things:

• In my video, I explain how you can use a spreadsheet with longitude and latitude, but this video shows how to do this with addresses, which makes things easier.
• It shows how you can select information from the spreadsheet so that the map will create categories of similar information for you.
• It also shows how you can use tables that already exist elsewhere and import all their information in maps.