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Make a map from a list of multiple locations, use addresses, postcodes, or coordinates. Free hosting for your own interactive map locator. Being able to easily map historical data to geographical data can help students better understand who different historical events were related to each other, whether that is large scale events like different riots in a city or the addresses of important individuals, or the location of important life events for a single person. BatchGeo is a tool that interfaces with Excel and Google Maps to easily place data on a map. This is a tool that could be used by faculty to create resources for students or an easy to learn tool that students themselves could use.

a tool that is less about pushing out information and more about processing information. It is still shared in that it is open and available, but the focus is not on the sharing, but the use of the tool to organize and build up personal knowledge stores. Wikity is built around a card system. If you find something that you find interesting, you copy it as a card to your own space and that info is now yours to edit as you please.