I’m sharing what I have learned at the Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC) about composing in Google Maps (My Maps Google). This program allows you to create your own, curated maps and embed them in websites, to invent fun icebreakers, to create class maps where students work with text, visuals, and videos to share their primary research, or even to transform some traditional assignments like annotated bibliographies into situated conversations.

Samples maps:

 Village Preservation (GVSHP) Civil Rights & Social Justice

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=40.743927895403786%2C-73.9976934583496&hl=en&z=15&mid=1NN8Q-GXFGJiZZqDNBm9hxTMGm7E

OurMap of Environmental Justice

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&source=embed&msa=0&ll=41.83913,-87.718105&spn=0.022381,0.036478&mid=1OnnM1kha1ATOwxDPFn6tbdyvkGo

This video explains how to do all the things (and more!) that I discuss in my video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKv0kaxY2JE&t=0s

This video explains how to import information from a spreadsheet into your map. Three important things: in my video I explain how you can use a spreadsheet with longitude and latitude, but this video shows how to do this with addresses, which makes things easier. It also shows how you can  select information so that the map will create categories of similar information for you. Finally, it shows how you can use tables that already exist elsewhere and import all their information into maps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1e-bS-T34