Smithsonian & ePals Present the 2014 Junior Folklorist Challenge

ePals and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage are hosting the 2014 Junior Folklorist Challenge . The challenge asks ...

Is Street View Not In Your Area? Create Your Own Street View Spheres

Google's Street View imagery is capturing more of the world all the time. Through Street View we can virtually visit national parks, wo...

A Map of Nearly 100,000 Historic Places

Historic Places offers a Google Map of nearly 100,000 historic places in North America. Browse the map and click on the placemarks to disco...

Historypin Adds an Android App to View Old Map Imagery as You Walk

Last summer I introduced you to a great Google Maps-based service called Historypin .On Monday Historypin's Executive Director Nick Sta...

3 Free Android Apps for Recording Oral History

Earlier this week at the Ed Tech Teacher Teaching History With Technology workshops I facilitated a discussion about using cell phones in s...

Google Map Maker Opens to U.S. Users

For more than a year now users in some countries outside of the US have been able to create detailed maps of their cities and towns on Googl...

What Was There? - Mapped Historical Images

What Was There is a good example of using Google Maps to show the way places used to look. What Was There allows registered users to uploa...