Here's an example of Quickmaps. We need to test how easy it is to post on a quickmap like this collaboratively, but so far I'm liking this mashup best.

What I can imgine is that students could create tours of different places in their hometowns (not where they live). Jon Udell's work like this has been a model for Susan Ettenheim and me in thinking about such projects. 

Imagine students describing their own neighborhoods by adding places "interesting to everyone" and facts that are important to everyone. It would be interesting to compare the experience of writing on this wiki with the more personal virtual tours that I've suggested could be done with quickmaps.

Even though a student would be writing for everyone and with everone, he/she could save a section of the map to a blog... or at least link to that section. Look here to find my school, East Side Community High School, for example.

Go here, and take us on a virtual tour of your best vacation. Take us to that place where you will never forget.

Login : educationbridges
Password: welcome

Here's an example of a project that I started with students, and never finished last semester:  

Map Builder is a tool worth our consideration. I've set up another collaborative map about vacations. You need to be registered at Map Builder, then I can add your username into the list of users for that map.  So please register, and list your username in the discussion below.

Problem is I don't see how to make journies easily on this mashup.

Thanks!  Also I really like the 43 Places possibilities.

This is the way I'd like a mapping project to work: See ActiveTrails.

Maybe we can get links in BuddyMaps which link to rich media stories in quickmaps?

Sticky Map is an interesting tool. One of my hopes is that we can find a central map that is easy to access (like buddymaps), and that allows each student to link to other maps he/she has created that shows more detail... tells a story... includes rich media.

Here's East Side Community High School on Sticky Map.

I think CommunityWalk is what we've been looking for!  Take a look at Vacation Stories (last gasp!). Join, find "Vacation Stories," zoom out, then add your own. In the map settings I checked this permission:

That should make it possible to build a map together, yet we won't have to worry about losing things.  

Try it out! it's as easy to make paths as quickmaps, open to rich media as mapbuilder, and as collaborative as buddy maps.