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My Tracks is a free application developed by Google for Android-based smart-phones. My Tracks allows you to record your movements, whether you walk, run, ride your bicycle, a bus or go by car. My Tracks uses the GPS - Global Positioning System - system available on a wide range of modern phones to record the GPS coordinates and a timestamp for every coordinate recorded.

This opens up a world of possibilities for teachers to develop interesting and mea-ningful activities. Because the application integrates with a number of other Google applications such as Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Docs (the spreadsheet), My Tracks allows you and your students:

  • to collect live data
  • to visualize the data in various ways using Google Maps or Google Earth
  • to do all sorts of calculations based on the data.

You can get a thorough introduction to the use of My Tracks and the various ways to use the data collected by reading the following training material or visiting the Google My Tracks site: