GoogleLit:谷歌点亮文学旅行网是一个基于谷歌地图的文学著作旅行网站，旨在帮助孩子们了解不同国家的文学著作，在虚拟世界中沿着文学人物的文化之路旅行。

GoogleLitTrips项目的创立者Jerome Burg博士报告的题目是GoogleLitTrips伟大的文学作品、全球化的教育、21世纪师生面对的现代技术，其中介绍了获奖的GoogleLitTrips项目，通过将21世纪的谷歌地图技术与旅程文学中表现出的时代智慧相结合起来，学生与教育者就有了一种全新的方法来学习文学、地理、世界历史和文化，

Google Lit Trips aren’t like sparknotes and other resources that can be used to circumvent the need to actually do the reading. They are designed to stimulate higher level thinking skills and to connect the story’s themes and messages to the issues of the real world in which students live.

The short version is simple. Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about real world references made in that particular portion of the story.

The focus is on creating engaging and relevant literary experiences for students. I like to say Google Lit Trips 3-dimensionalize the reading experience by placing readers inside the story traveling alongside the characters; looking through the windshield of that old jalopy in The Grapes of Wrath or waddling alongside Mr. and Mrs. Mallard’s duckling family in Make Way for Ducklings.