Google Earth: Take the Picture Again, My Eyes Were Closed!
April 30, 2009
Google Earth is a desktop/web application that is incredible now, and will be the canvas on which teachers will build amazing new functions and capabilities. Like many tools, it’s easy to be intimidated by the huge number of tools available, so it is worthwhile to play with the program using tools one by one to find out what is useful and what is not.
Coupled with the built in functions is the huge and growing library of free downloadable layers that plug in to the program. Searching Google or using one of the sites listed on the Delicious page can yield a library of options.
To take this even further, there are great projects that students or you can do with the tools of Google Earth, again a Google search and some of the pages I’ve listed will allow you to see what other teachers in all subject areas are doing with Google earth.
PowerPoint Slides
Tech 20 Session 11 from Greg Dhuyvetter on Vimeo.
Additional Resources may be found at www.delicious.com/gdhuyvetter/googleearth