The Place + Memory Project, for Reading?

NPR has a project called Place+Memory in which people can recreate places they recall from the past–places that had a great effect on them–and both record a story about it for radio as well as plot it on a map.  I have to imagine that this might be adapted for our pasts as readers.  What if students recreated the settings of memorable childhood readings?  And plotted them on a map?  I’m thinking of weaving it into my own re-reading project that I’ve done with 10th grade students.  It might be a rich example of how new literacy technology can help with rough old practices like reading off of paper.

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