jrp+Google+Lit+Trip+Review

I reviewed Expedition Literature: Into the Wild by John Krakauer mostly because I loved reading the book and the movie was also very good. This trip set out to follow the travels of Chris, the main character, and his anti-government ideals. I felt this Google Lit Trip, and probably many others, was be useful in a informational way, but not really to tell a story. You get a brief look into what the story was about, but not a lot of content or emotion is felt when navigating the trip. There were a lot of slides that just said it was a place he traveled through while hitch hiking, which adds no significance to the story. I would have liked to see more about the people he met and how that shaped his ideas about life and what he was searching for. I did find it easy to navigate the trip and didn't have any trouble zooming in or out. I did find it a bit annoying that the bubble that would pop up at each new location would cover the map, so you couldn't really see where you were navigating.

I think Google Lit Trips could be useful for the right content. Adding a geographical element to a story can help students create a more accurate picture in their mind about the story and the characters if they know where they are in the world. I would probably make a trip about Darwin and his travels, the discoveries he made and of course the Galapagos Islands. This could be a very useful lesson to show where he was and the importance of that place in relation to the discoveries he made and how we have used that information to make hypothesis about evolution.

Here is the link to the Lit Trip [|Expedition Literature: Into the Wild by John Krakauer]

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