Archive for the 'Google Earth' Category
Even More on Google Earth
Google is constantly finetuning Google Earth, so each time you open the application and it connects to the GE server, you might find a surprise. The newest features is real weather info, terrific for those of you who do weather units in Science class. The Weather option has three layers: cloud cover in real-time, doppler [...]
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More on Google Earth
As you probably have guessed, I am obsessed with Google Earth. I read Google Earth blogs, search for KLM files, and try to come up with lessons to integrate GE into the curriculum. One recent innovation is the addition of youtube videos geotagged throughout Google Earth. To explore this new layer, go to the Featured [...]
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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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