An idea of learning/teaching activitity with Geospatial technologies

Hi all

I have thought to link Geospatial technologies with the 'traditional' activity of reading a novel.
Let me explain. My students and me were used to spend one hour a week reading a book. We read aloud in turn, then we had discussions about issues arising from the book itself, as well as about matters of style, textual structure and so on. The range of activities depends heavily on the age of target students and the kind of book you have chosen.
The last book I used for these reading activity was 'My family and other animals', an autobiographic novel written by the naturalist Gerald Durrell whose family transferred from Britain to Corfu when he was 10 years old. The book is quite hilarious and funny; beyond telling tales on this eccentric family in a period of 4 years, it provides also interesting descriptions and episoded starring the fauna and flora of the island.
I can remember that my students (they were 12 years old) asked me often details and explanations, especially about the animals in the story, but sometimes they found difficult to deal with the long descriptions of places ( which they found quite boring...)
Thus, students and teacher could design a google map tracing the itinerary of the Durrells from UK to Corfu, inserting in the map of Corfu lables and descriptions of the places D. portrays, as well as pictures of the described animals. This map could be fruitfully used also for interdisciplinar activities in collaboration with the Science teacher, in order to deepen the study of the animal species and of naturalistic and environmental issues emerging from the novel.