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=**Welcome to an Introduction to Google Lit Trips for District 20 TREK**=

What is a Lit Trip?
Tracing a journey described in a book, fiction or non-fiction, then allowing visitors to visit the sites with guiding captions, historical images, and links. From: []

Lit Trip Examples
Walker School Upper Level Projects - High School Level Expedition Lit Trips Google Lit Trips Site Click on the downloads tab on the upper right side of the page

Creating a Lit Trip
Google Lit Trips Step Guide Click here to go to the "Getting to Know Google Earth" Link Purdue University Project for Lit Trips Adding Placemarks

**Helpful YouTube Videos**
[|Introduction to Lit Trips] [|Making Google Earth Placemarks]

Quick Trip
1. Select a Book and review/read until you have read about 3 places that are visited in the story. 2. Open Google Earth from the desktop. 3. Click the box on Temporary Places. On the toolbar in the upper left of the page click Add >new folder and name your lit trip folder. 4. In the "Fly To" box enter the name of the first place you wish to visit then click on the magnifying glass. //**Placemarkers**// 5. Click on the yellow push pin on the toolbar at the top of the page. 6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 so you have three placemarkers. 7. On the upper right side of the google image, there are 3 navigation tools to use. Click here to see how they are used. Use the zoom slider(the bottom tool) to get a view with both placemarkers shown on the screen. 8. Click on the Add Path Icon on the toolbar at the top of the page. 9. Move your cursor over the google image. A white box should appear where your cursor is. Go to the placemarker where your path begins, left click. Go to the placemarker where your path ends, left click. 10. Repeat step 7-9 for the other paths. 11. Right click on your trip folder > save place as. You now have a Lit Trip.
 * Give your marker a name
 * You can select a different marker by clicking on the pushpin to the right of the title
 * You can add images, text, or links in the large space below the marker title.
 * Click save when you are finished
 * to return to a place marker to add content right click on the name of the placemarker on the left side panel and click properties.
 * //Paths//**
 * Give the Path a name
 * Change the color to something bright and the width to at least 3. 0.
 * You can add images, text, or links in the large space below the path title.