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"Your favourite places: Share potential housing locations, holiday plans, or simply map your favourite coffee shops, bars & restaurants. Edit with friends: Easily share your map with friends so they can edit with you; simply give them the URL over email or instant messenger. Read-only maps: Add an optional password to your map to limit editing to those you want to. To create a totally private map, simply create a map with an unguessable name."

"On GE Teach students can compare two maps side-by-side. Students can select from gallery of map layers to compare side-by-side in GE Teach. In addition to comparing maps students can still use the drawing and measuring tools that you would typically find in Google's My Maps tool."

"Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. "

"The days of foldable paper maps are numbered but the world wide web is opening up the potential of maps by offering an amazing variety of cool websites that teachers should take the time to explore. Below are ten great mapping sites for you to use in the classroom."

"Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. So when we saw a post sweeping the Web titled "40 maps they didn't teach you in school," one of which happens to be a WorldViews original, I thought we might be able to contribute our own collection. Some of these are pretty nerdy, but I think they're no less fascinating and easily understandable."

StatSilk offers a range of web-based and desktop software to cater to diverse mapping and visualization needs. The website has a common purpose: to make data analysis easy, efficient and enjoyable.

Are you ready to map out your argument for your persuasive essay or debate?

"Using myHistro, you can combine maps and timelines seamlessly into one great presentation, convert any public timeline into a personal pdf file, or export it into Google Earth format for offline storage."

"Explore the World with Geography Map Games" It's so important to know the world we live in. But it's so huge! There are so many countries, cities, flags, rivers, seas and more than 7 billions of people. Do everyone know all countries of the world? Probably not :) Some people even don't know neighboring countries. And I understand why. Sometimes learning is too complicated or a geography teacher is too boring at school :) But let's change it, let's make geography interesting. That's why playGeography.com was created. We're a group of enthusiasts who wants to help you discover the world. It's so interesting, there're so many places you'll want to visit, there're so many countries probably you even didn't hear of. At the time of writing, there were 195 countries. How many can you name?

Timeglider is a data-driven interactive timeline application. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out - much as you would with a mapping app - to view centuries at a time or just hours. You can create create event spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, Timeglider lets you collaborate and share easily. Excellent option for informational text creation and distribution.

Meograph helps easily create, watch, and share interactive stories. Our first product combines maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories in context of where and when. Authoring is structured into a few simple prompts on an intuitive interface. Viewers get a new form of media that they can watch in two minutes or explore for an hour. Sharing is easy: the two most viral types of media are videos and infographics ... Meograph is both.

Google Earth can help you bring a world of information alive for your students. It can be used with all grade levels, and the possibilities are endless with your imagination! Students can use Google Earth to explore topics like the progress of human civilization, the growth of cities, the impact of civilization on the natural environment, and the impact of natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Teachers can use Google Earth demos to get their students excited about geography beyond the static map, or use different Google Earth layers to study transportation, demographics, economics, and in specific local or exotic contexts.

Mindmapping websites...different mapping style options.

Services like CK-12 make it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks. Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core. You can start from scratch or build from anything the the FlexBooks library.

"The alternative ways suggested here are important. If you look at the suggestions analytically you will see that they center around actively engaging students in the learning task through a variety of ways including, critical thinking, brainstorming, concept mapping...etc."

a history project linking Wikipedia to a dynamic map with a time slider Note that the data used in this app is yet inconsistent and will be editable by the community in the final release

Drag-and-Drop Lesson Creation. Creating lessons on Deck.Toys is fun for you too! Build complete lessons within minutes with your existing teaching content such as study sets, PPT or Google Slides. Differentiate the Right Way. Self-exploration at your students' own pace allows ample practice for mastery of key concepts. Just tap to create unique pathways! Full Control Over Your Lesson Delivery. Activate Teacher Sync and every student will be synced to your current slide. Get real-time feedback from students with Response apps such as Text, Draw, Quick Poll and Placemarker. Track Students' Progress in Real-Time. While students are having fun exploring your lesson, you may track how well each student is doing directly from the map. You may also generate a comprehensive classroom report with the Report app.

Interactive visualisation showing wind speeds around the world