I worked on this "thing" about three separate times, so this time I'm going to finally wrap it up and write down my thoughts. I played with a lot of the listed tools for fun, but haven't gotten to into the curricular aspects of them. I can see how they would be a really interesting way to delve deeper into a topic, learn more about the background information of a book's setting for an English class, or as a good way to tie English and Social Studies together.
In particular, I liked What Was There. It was a lot of fun to see the old photos, see what modern cities looked like years ago (I especially like the more recent past, as so much has changed in the past few decades). I also loved the collaborative Google map. That might be a fun back to school activity to replace the old, "What did you do over summer vacation?" Even if you didn't leave home, you could still place a marker and post a little description of where/what you did.
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