My good friend AllanahK just posted about an excellent find called Virtual Highway.  It’s a Google mash-up of a Google map of New Zealand and video of what the drive actually looks like. As the video plays a little car moves along the highway keeping in synch with the video.

Like AllanahK, I couldn’t resist having a tinker especially since I thought it would be a great way to share a little bit of my home country with my Grade 5 class tomorrow.  (Love the little car that drives along the map as the video runs!)

At the moment my class is exploring classroom blogs from all over the world (with a bit of a bias towards New Zealand blogs ……) because we’ve started our own class blog.  We’re looking at what other classes have on their blog to decide what we would like on ours.  If you and your class currently blog, we would love you to leave a comment and a URL on our class blog so that we can visit your classroom blog to take a look around.

We’re especially interested in any “must-haves” you think we should include on our blog.