In the Spotlight: Animated Timeline Maps
Our new animated timeline maps in the interactive maps section let your students watch hundreds of years of pivotal moments in history unfold in just 90 seconds! These engaging maps are excellent tools for helping students connect events in history to the present day.

Maps101 in Your Classroom
Mariellen Hagens of Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt Manor, New York, makes timely use of Maps101 in her AP Human Geography Class: "I constantly use Maps101; the students love the current events. I have used your maps to highlight pumpkin production in Canada for Halloween, and for the topics of natural resources (especially loved the bottled water and the national forests debate articles), industry, and culture. I use them on a Smartboard so we can further delineate geographic factors related to the topic." How have you used Maps101 in your classroom? Tell us, and we'll give you a FREE world wall map for entering. The most creative entry will be featured in the August newsletter.

Maps101 Video Training and Webinars
Learn how to easily use Maps101 to its fullest extent: Check out our NEW series of self-paced training videos that will show you the basics, how to access materials, and give suggestions for usage. Our FREE webinars are also still taking place each week, Tuesdays, 4pm EST and Wednesdays, 6pm EST, giving you another chance for training. Sign up for one today!

NECC 2008 Wrap Up
Thank you to those of you who came to NECC and visited the Maps101 booth; we hope the conference was productive for you. Congratulations to our grand-prize winner, George Liebenrood, principal of Latta High School, in Latta, SC, who will receive a Promethean ActiveBoard 2 for his school.

Deane's Challenge
Can you beat our Senior Editor at these tricky questions? Choose your answers, then click the links to view maps for the regions mentioned.

1. What country is crossed by the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn?
2. A cluster of stars is featured on which two countries' flags in Oceania?
3. What two countries in mainland Europe border only one country?