C4T #3

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Post 1

Ten ways to use Google Maps by Jeff Utecht
starts with the history of  maps.From paper maps to digital maps, students have a vast of avenues to use this tool.  Jeff shows that maps can be used in history lessons to find a route to a historical point of interest for the class. He shows how maps can be a math lesson with how many miles from one point to another and comparing shorter and longer routes. He also uses maps as  geography lessons on the different landscape that is in the world around us. Digital maps can make these lessons come alive.

Jeff's ten ways to use Google maps.

1. Latitude Longitude Scavenger Hunts
2. Earth Picker
3. Smarty Pins
4. My Maps
5. Video Tour
6. Create a map for your community
7. Create a route
8. Measure Distance and Area
9. See your World in 3D
10. Mobile Maps

My Comment:

Hi Jeff Utecht. Thanks for opening my eyes to all the ways to use Google maps can be used in the classroom. My name is Tanya and I am an education major at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I can see with some thought, Google maps can become a powerful tool to almost any classroom assignment, whether the assignment is a group or individual. Maybe as a history lesson I should pull out the old paper maps and show the class what people used as maps in the “old days”. Thanks for the great referral. I enjoyed your post.

In reading Jeff Utecht's post on Google maps.  I saw how with imagination and creativity that  a tool such as maps can be used with many different lesson plans.  I also liked how the maps can be used in groups as well as individuals. Jeff Utecht  was a great teacher to follow and I look forward to reading his future post.

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Post #2

  Jeff Utecht made a beautiful tribute to his father on a post dated April 6, 2015. Jeff reveals that his dad suffers from Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD).  This post shows us a loving bond between father and son and their love for baseball. Jeff is not only an inspiring teacher, this post show how the two spent the day together sharing a passion and not letting anything like FTD stop them from having their memories of their time together.

My Comment:
Jeff,  Hi.  It is great to see a father and son sharing a passion together.  Both of you are very lucky.


I felt that this post shows how we can see  teachers who regularly post about their professional career also have other titles as well.  It is these great outside the classroom relationships that help mold and shape the great teachers, like Jeff in our world.  We have to remember that like our students there all types of teachers and like students they have ups and downs as well.  Life teaches us all this lesson. I really enjoy following Jeff Utecht.