My Important Locations Assignment Fall 2012

Task: To create a Google map and a descriptive paragraph that show three important locations in your life.

The locations you will show are:

1. Your current home in Hsinchu.
2. Your home in your home country.  If you are a local student, please show your favorite city in Taiwan to visit.
3. The location of HIS.

How to create your Map
Go to Google Maps

1. click on the NEW option in the top right hand corner.
2. to Enable the Distance Measurement Tool, and the LatLong Marker go to the cog in the top right hand corner of your screen.  Click it and choose Map Labs.  Then click enable Distance Measurement Tool.  Scroll down and click enable LatLong marker.
3. Type Taiwan into the search bar.
4. Click on My Maps, then create a new map.
5. Find your home, use a place marker to mark it.
6. Do the same with HIS and your home in your home country, or your favorite city in Taiwan, if you are a local student.
7. Use the LatLong marker to find each absolute location.
8. Use the Distance measurement tool to find the distances between your two homes, or your home and your favorite city in Taiwan.
9. SAVE your map.
10. Go to your blog and create a new post.  Embed the Google map in your post.
11. To embed the map in your blog post:  On the map page you created choose LINK.  You will be given two choices.  Choose the second, or lower box, that says Paste HTML to embed in website.  Copy and paste the html text into your blog post.

What your paragraph must describe:

1. The absolute location of each of your locations.
2. The relative location of each of your locations.
3. State the distance between your home in Hsinchu and your home in your home country.

Your paragraph must be written in the same post that you embed your Google map in.  

Please look at my example project posted below.

The project is worth 20 points.  10 points for the map, and 10 points for the paragraph.

Your project must be posted our  blog no later than the morning of Wednesday September 12th.