Frappr map

While checking my google alerts today, I received a link for Frappr Map. You can customize map locations then post them to the blog of your choice. I tried it out for myself and that it to be at first another socialization tool for mid-20 somethings for like your's truely. Frappr works by typing in a city and state (or country) and the site creates a map pin pointing the send location. Ideally its for friends to create maps to show how they are in location to one and another. However, the more I thought about it, the more Frappr could be used as a tool for a class project.

For example, one could use Frappr to create a map of Napoleon's 1812 campaign. A student can create a blog writing about the soldiers experience then log onto Frappr to create a map showing the different battlefields. This could be use with ELA blogs as well. Want to show the different cities andd countries of Hemingway's writing, create a Frappr map.

Frappr does not have the graphics of Google Earth. It's zoom in function does need some work (I tried zooming into Salem, and found my city to be in the Atlantic Ocean). The map itself does have a crude computer graphic quality to it. However, if you are using Frappr for a mere representation, it does the trick.