Inserting Google Maps onto Webpages

     I blogged in my prior post about how to add a plug in to PowerPoint that allows for live web page interaction from within PowerPoint slides.  I am sure the instant possibilities that were considered by anyone to see that post were legion.  However, I thought a quick example of this that would be cross-subject would be adding the URL address for Google Maps to your slide.  This would make 3D tours and 3D motion more possible for the students to interact with.  For History and Geography students this is indispensable but many different subjects may use it, especially for integration.  (Set the maps settings to "street view" and visit the Colosseum in Rome for one good example.)  If you are a Google Earth user in the class much of this functionality will replace what you might have done in Google Earth without even needing to open it!  And it is faster! 
     With that said, there is another neat tool for those who might be looking for the same ability on their own websites.  Over at Blogger Buster they have a neat article walking through some good options here.  For the easier of the two (no nerds necessary) you can choose the second of the two recommendations.  (Correction: Nerds needed for both dependent on your prior web page experience.) You can plug in the same functionality on a web page of your own liking.  As usual, going to the actual item I want to use always seems better than a link to another item that then takes me to what I wanted to get to in the first place.  Links stink, destinations rule.  Just follow the directions.  (Please be sure to note that these require your own web page!) Like PraxVsPed!