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Roundtrip Tickets Anywhere: Google Earth in Education

Roundtrip Tickets Anywhere: Google Earth in Education. Justin Karkow Discovery Education. What is Google Earth?. Google Earth Free Google Earth Plus Google Earth Pro. For Free Google Earth Pro license (for educators). GEEC@google.com You will be sent a qualifying questionnaire.

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Roundtrip Tickets Anywhere: Google Earth in Education

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  1. Roundtrip Tickets Anywhere:Google Earth in Education Justin KarkowDiscovery Education

  2. What is Google Earth? • Google Earth Free • Google Earth Plus • Google Earth Pro

  3. For Free Google Earth Pro license (for educators) GEEC@google.com You will be sent a qualifying questionnaire.

  4. Why use it? Students can use Google Earth to: • study natural and political maps • learn map reading and navigation • visually explore historical, news, and census data • annotate locations and share with others • create their own 3D models to overlay on maps • download geographically-referenced information

  5. Google Earth…Cool!!!

  6. Okay, I Found My House…

  7. Google Earth Quick Start User Guide • Search Panel- Use to find places and directions • Overview Map- Use for an additional perspective • Hide/Show sidebar- Click to conceal or display side bar • Placemark- Click to add a placemark • Polygon- Click to add a polygon • Path- Click to add a path • Image Overlay- Click to add an image • Measure- Click to measure distance • Email- Click to email view or image • Print- Click to print current view • Navigation Controls- Use to tilt, zoom and move • Layers Panel- Use to display points of interests • Places Panel- Use to locate, save, and organize placemarks • 3D Viewer- View the globe and terrain • Status Bar- View streaming status

  8. Navigation Tools • Zoom in • Zoom out • or Double click

  9. Navigation Tools • Tilt Down • Tilt Up

  10. Navigation Tools - some advanced controls • Try this for accents

  11. Lots and lots of cool things here. Sidebar

  12. Contemporary view in Google Earth Sidebar

  13. Overlay view with Rumsey Historical Maps Sidebar

  14. Menu Panel: Ruler • To find out distance traveled, from the menu bar select “Tools” then “Ruler” • By clicking different points with your mouse you can create a line or a path. • A Line measures distance between two points. • A Path measures distances on a path with many points. • To convert units of measure select from the drop down menu. Other 20% Network A Path is the way to connect Placemarks or Image Overlays on a Google Lit trip or Google History Expedition, etc.! Kids or teachers can build them.

  15. Adding Placemarks Other 20% Network 80%

  16. Adding Placemarks that play video from URL links - Free sites 1 Adding Sounds or Video from free sites • Find media online • Click to Stream. • As it streams Right Click, then click properties, and copy location. • Paste in Google Earth Placemark Description box. 2 Other 20% Network 80% 80% 3 4 http://www.archive.org/video/28786/prg28786_256k.asf http://www.archive.org/video/28786/prg28786_256k.asf

  17. Okay, I get the Idea Get to the Good Stuff

  18. That Was GREAT…How Do You Do It? What Do I Need • Google Earth • Discovery Education Streaming (or other video content) • Converter to flash • www.media-convert.com • www.zamzar.com • And…some HTML

  19. HTML Code….Now You Lost Me <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"width="637" height="421" id="game" align=""><param name=movie value="http file:///C:\Converted Video\thewhitehouse.swf "><param name=quality value=high> <param name=bgcolor value=#FFFFFF><embed src="http:// http file:///C:\Converted Video\thewhitehouse.swf " quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF width="637" height="421" align=""type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> </object>

  20. Media Share to the Rescue!

  21. Let’s Give it a Try!!

  22. Adding Placemarks to play audio Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts • Copy location from Properties window or from the web address line in the browser (e.g., Explorer) • Paste in Google Earth Placemark Description box. 80% 3

  23. What does this look like in the classroom?

  24. Preferences: 3D View and others

  25. Preferences: Touring • You can control the flying speed • You can control or eliminate pauses • You can repeat the tours (for Open House) or reinforcement You can open information balloons on tours Other 20% Control Driving Tours here Network 80%

  26. Google Earth Hidden Features • Flight Simulator • Macs Apple + Option + A • Windows Control + Alt + A After the first trip, it appears in tools

  27. Questions?

  28. Justin_Karkow@discovery.com http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/justin_karkow

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