{"id":796,"date":"2013-10-04T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/?p=796"},"modified":"2013-10-07T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:52:45","slug":"google-tools-google-lit-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/google-tools-google-lit-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Tools: Google Lit Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlelittrips.org\/\"><strong>Google Lit Trips<\/strong><\/a> is another Google tool you might not have heard of.\u00a0 It has definite possibilities for use in the classroom, particularly for literature and history classes.\u00a0 Google Lit Trips uses Google Earth to \u201cplace\u201d a novel geographically.\u00a0 It leads the \u201creader\u201d on a tour of the places mentioned in the book.\u00a0 The options are mostly novels, though certain books like <em>Night<\/em> by Elie Wiesel and <em>The Odyssey<\/em> by Homer would be particularly useful for both literature and history professors.\u00a0 Lit Trips are not replacements for reading the books, but add to the experience to make it more memorable.<\/p>\n<p>To use Google Lit Trips, you will first need to download <strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/earth\/download\/ge\/\"><strong>Google Earth<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Then you can download Lit Trips from the Google Lit Trips website.\u00a0 All downloads are free, though you must fill out a survey to be able to download Lit Trips. \u00a0Use the site map on the Google Lit Trips site to be able to find titles more easily.<\/p>\n<p><em>By ITA, Hillary Shipps<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Lit Trips is another Google tool you might not have heard of.\u00a0 It has definite possibilities for use in the classroom, particularly for literature &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}