ECOMP 7010: Google Lit Trips

Google Tools in the Classroom

Directions: Think about a Google Lit Trip that you would create for YOUR students and report on it.

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1. A Google Lit Trip that inspired me:
My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

2. The book that I would write a Lit Trip for is: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham.

3. Besides sending my students to the locations…there are a lot of possibilities for extensions and other innovations. Students could do research on the various tools that Nat Bowditch uses in the story, investigating whether or not they are still used today and if not, what tool(s) have replaced them. After reading each chapter, students could go to a WallWisher page and brainstorm different titles for the chapter and explain how that came up with them. Students could also select a character from the book and create a Historical Facebook profile page, where in addition to entering in biographical data they would have to determine what social groups they would belong to, who would be in their ‘friend’ list, and several examples of posts we might see on their Facebook wall.

ECOMP 6106: Curriculum Unit Website

What is the purpose for creating a teaching website?

Your website should be designed to provide you and others (i.e. parents and/or students, other teachers, administrators, and colleagues with whom you collaborate) with access to information and documents that are part of the unit you will be designing during this course. Websites provide easy access to materials, hyperlinks, online resources, and assessment documents. Your website should become a compendium of information and resources for your curriculum unit. Plan your website to make use of the power of the Internet to assist with the storage, retrieval, and communication of information and documents.

Teaching Website: Internet Safety
Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Unit Goals
• Unit Questions
• Assessment Plan
• Unit Resources
• Instructional Procedures
• Introduction
• Cyberbullying
• Digital Footprint
• Internet Credibility
• Phishing
• Viruses
• Conclusion
• Technology Integration
• Differentiated Instruction
• Communication

WebQuest: Historical Facebook

<Historical Facebook>

For my WebQuest assignment I designed an activity around having students use Facebook without actually going to Facebook. Thanks to Derrick Waddell who created the original template, the WebQuest asks students to create a standard Facebook profile. However, instead of making one for themselves they create one on behalf of a historical figure. Students must research their historical person in order to provide accurate biographical information for the profile fields. While some information is factual there are places such as the friends they would follow, the groups they would join, and their recent wall posts where students are encouraged to be creative while remaining in character. When complete students must provide references for the information they entered and justify the posts they added on behalf of their historical figure.


There are many ways that this WebQuest can be modified to fit broader or more specific activities. For example, check out the Facebook assignment entitled “Pirates need Social Networks too!” by Tara, which is designed to go along with the reading of the novel Treasure Island.