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Friday, February 21, 2020
Google Tour Builder & Tour Creator Cheat Sheet
Have you ever wondered how you can task your students with telling stories through maps? Google Tour Builder and Google Tour Creator can help! Tour Builder and Tour Creator are web-based storytelling tools that allow users to create their own interactive map by using Google Maps and Google Earth and adding multimedia content. Students and teachers can use Google Tour Builder or Tour Creator to design virtual tours for studying places, locations of key events, settings in books, real world issues and more. This is a great way to get students engaged with the material and constructing their own ways to showcase their learning. Tour Builder projects can be viewed in Google Earth; Tour Creator projects can be viewed in virtual reality!