Beyond the Books: Mapping Stories and Making Connections with Digital Storytelling

What if your learners could walk through history, map stories, or connect local landmarks to global narratives‚ all through digital storytelling? In this interactive session, we'll show how Google Arts & Culture, Google Earth, and Google Maps can help students become creators of place-based stories that spark curiosity and build research and digital literacy skills. Alongside examples like Heather Morris's Three Sisters, we'll explore how history and culture can be connected to the present, encouraging learners to see how past conflicts, struggles, and resilience shape today's world. You'll leave with practical resources, pre-curated stories, scaffolded models, and digital platforms for creative expression that you can use right away to engage learners in meaningful, story-driven learning. Check out this place-based learning opportunity in the Greensboro area and consider joining us on Tuesday evening for a group tour at 6:30pm: Space will be limited so please sign up soon if you are interested in the "She Wouldn’t Take off her Boots" Memorial Field Trip on Tuesday at 6:30: Info at go.ncdpi.gov/nced26boots.