The Google Maps Class – Lost and found!

When we started out learning how to create the google maps I thought it would be so very simple. I mean, I figured since google made everything else so easy this would be a cinch! I didn’t know what hit me when professor McAdams started talking about spreadsheets, latitudes and longitudes. Just when I was recovering I was hit by getting HTML code for that darned thing. I am not a dud when it comes to HTML. I’ve dabbled a fair bit in website design just like some of my other grad school colleagues. So, as the class went on I started thinking this wasn’t going to be so bad.

What I had essentially gathered was that I had to find the latitutes and longitudes for the places I wanted to show on the map, put them into google maps; google would then generate a code for me (for those map locations), which I would have to paste into my HTML in Dreamweaver. NOW it was starting to make sense.

But the biggest mistake I made was not creating the map when the lesson was fresh in my mind. The most important thing on my mind was the soundslides 3 assignment. When I did finally get around to creating the maps I was as blank as a fake gun! I knew I was supposed to know this but I didn’t. I drudged through the instructions and got it done.  Th funniest thing was that when I was done with it, I felt like I had just had a deja vu of the entire class. So, my ten cents of advice to anyone planning in creating a map is DO IT THE INSTANT YOU LEARN IT.