Mult Dev is a free tool that lets you rapidly develop animated maps. In the time since I discussed Mult Dev a couple of updates were made to it. The most noteworthy of those being that you now need to sign into the service with a Google account or a GitHub account. In this brief video I demonstrate how to develop an animated map with Mult Dev..

Applications for Education.
Mult Dev most likely isnt a fantastic choice for mapping brief journeys or connections between cities that are reasonably close together. Rather, its an excellent tool for revealing trainees distances between cities that are far apart like Boston and San Francisco or San Francisco and Sydney.
A feature of Mult Dev that I d like to see in the future is a choice to change the speed of animation based on the distances between cities. For instance, I d like to have the animation decrease when showing the distance between Sydney and San Francisco then speed up when revealing the distance in between San Francisco and Boston.
If you see it elsewhere, it has actually been used without approval. Featured graphic developed by Richard Byrne using Canva.

Im taking today to charge and get ready for the next session of the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp. For the next couple of days Im going to highlight some of my favorite brand-new and new-to-me tools up until now this year..