Archive for September, 2007
New Version of Google Earth
Be sure to upgrade to GE 4.2 because GE has now gone into the skies; a new icon appears on the toolbar that changes Google Earth to Google Sky. You can view the sky with constellation names on, with tours of the solar systems, and many other cool features. The new version also allows embedding [...]
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Google Earth in the classroom
Google Earth–and the ability to easily create tours with Google Maps–lends itself to many curriculum uses. In a literature class, teachers and/or students can create a guided tour of the main character’s journey, highlighting each stop along the way with quotations from the novel, descriptions of the stop and its relationship to the novel’s themes, [...]
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Try Voicethreads
Voicethread allows you to upload images; then different students can record their comments for each image, creating a slideshow with many commentaries. Students can also add written responses. Foreign language teachers, lower school teachers, and english teachers will particularly like this site, but history, science and math teachers can create interesting Voicethread slideshows. The site [...]
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