MapSites.net
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MAPSITES.NET
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Mapsites is a web based teaching tool that allows students to post historical presentations, personal essays, and creative writing onto an interactive map of their neighborhood.
Mapsites puts student writing on the map, literally. The student's writing assignment becomes part of a class project in which each student is writing for an audience that includes their teacher, their classmates, and maybe even their parents and their classmate's parents.
The site is ideal for American History and Urban history courses, as well as English courses in which creative writing or personal essay composition, or even photography, play a role. Any class which encourages students to think about their physical environment in terms of the past or the present could make excellent use of Mapsites.
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