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Discovery Discovery Education Education streamingstreamingand Googleand Google

EarthEarth

Introduction to Introduction to the power of the power of

Google Earth and Google Earth and media.media.

Linda Foote and Hall DavidsonLinda Foote and Hall DavidsonMarch 2008March 2008

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Google Earth is free download at earth.google.com

Bonus! Educators can also download Google Earth Pro free by emailing GEEC@google.com

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Google Earth Quick Start User Guide

1. Search Panel- Use to find places and directions

2. Overview Map- Use for an additional perspective

3. Hide/Show sidebar- Click to conceal or display side bar

4. Placemark- Click to add a placemark

5. Polygon- Click to add a polygon

6. Path- Click to add a path

7. Image Overlay- Click to add an image

8. Measure- Click to measure distance

9. Email- Click to email view or image

10. Print- Click to print current view

11. Navigation Controls- Use to tilt, zoom and move

12. Layers Panel- Use to display points of interests

13. Places Panel- Use to locate, save, and organize placemarks

14. 3D Viewer- View the globe and terrain

15. Status Bar- View streaming status

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Navigation Tools Zoom in

Zoom out

or Double click

Tilt Down

Tilt Up

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Navigation Tools Find advanced controls under Options (PC) or Preferences (Mac). Manipulate Elevation Exaggeration, Touring Speed, etc

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Sidebar: Search, Places, LayersThe sidebar manages much of your content in Google Earth.

The sections are

Search – Where you search for addresses, businesses, and directions. You can then fly there!

Places – My Places stores your content. This includes content you have collected and content you have created.

Layers – Content created by other people, companies like Discovery, and databases. These include maps, videos, images, borders, books, and much more.

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Sidebar: Search

Fly To: Go ahead, type in your address. Try landmarks, city names, and more! Note: These are not real time images!

Find Businesses: Type in needed services, stores, etc.

Directions: Point to point directions plus a flying tour!

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Sidebar: PlacesThe sidebar manages much of your content in Google Earth. Places stores your content.

My Places stores everything you have marked, your Placemarks, Image Overlays, and tours. When you open files or visit places they are stored first in Temporary Places

“Add Content” links to many interesting places and a great place to explore.

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Sidebar: LayersSome of the most powerful education tools in the Sidebar are in Layers. When checked, Layers overlay Google Earth with new features.

The best are in the Gallery.

Hint: Do NOT check too many layers. Your screen will get crowded!

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Sidebar: LayersSome of the most powerful education

tools in Layers are in Gallery.

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Menu Panel: Powerful Tools for Instruction

Hide Sidebar Polygon RouteI Ruler Google Maps Sky

Placemark

Image Overlay

We will focus on adding Placemarks

and Image Overlays

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When you create resources, begin with folders

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First Things First

• Create a Folder (Ctrl+Shift+N)

• This will help us keep our placemarks organized.

• When you add new Placemarks with the folder open, the Placemarks automatically go into the folder.

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Placemarks

Adding Placemarks

Click on Placemark

Give it a name

Choose an icon

Add text to the description box

The box is actually a mini-web page. We will explore the power in this feature for media later.

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Organizing Placemarks

Placemarks will show up in My Places. A “tour” will fly to all the resources in a checked folder.

Check folders to activate places. Don’t check too many or navigation gets difficult.

Double click on Place to fly there—or click the play button to go to all checked places in order.

• To fly over all your place marks click, highlight your folder and click the play button.

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Adding Media from Discovery Education streaming

Adding Sounds or Video (PC only for now)

Find media online at streaming.discoveryeducation.com

Right Click on the green play icon

Copy short cut

Paste in Placemark description

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Adding Image Overlays-students, school images

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To add an Image Overlay press (Ctrl+Shift+O) or from the menu bar click “Add” then “Image Overlay”

Web - Right Click on web image, then click properties and copy and paste address. (Note: Make sure you get all correlating lines of the address)

Hard Drive - Browse to the folder with images.

Adjust green box to desired image size

Paste image address in the link box

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To add an Image Overlay press (Ctrl+Shift+O) or from the menu bar click “Add” then “Image Overlay”

Web - Right Click on web image, then click properties and copy and paste address. (Note: Make sure you get all correlating lines of the address)

Hard Drive - Browse to the folder with images.

Adjust green box to desired image size

Paste image address in the link box

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Menu Panel: Ruler

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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.

Line measures distance between two points.

Path measures distances on a path with many points.

To convert units of measure select from the drop down menu.

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.

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Saving, sharing, and backing up

You can save and share everything in My Places.Go to File and select Save. Save the place or folder as a .kmz It will be small. You can email it, post it, leave it on the shared drive or back it up!

When someone opens the .kmz file, Google Earth will automatically be launched or users will be encouraged to download the program.

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Bringing it all together

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http://www.googlelittrips.org/

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Finally, Staggeringly Good Things Mixing Google Earth and Media

Hall DavidsonDirector, Discovery Educator Network

hall_davidson@discovery.comJerome Burg

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Part II

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Google Earth Hidden Features

Flight Simulator

Macs Apple + Option + A

Windows Control + Alt + A

After the first trip, it appears

in tools

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Preferences: Touring

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• 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

Control Driving Tours here

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Preferences: 3D View and others

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Watch Terrain

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The Description Box - A Deep Resource

You can cut and paste your own text, images, and websites into the code to get the ScreenOverlays and Description Box Pictures and Text Formatting to enhance your classroom Google Earth experience. Pay attention to the carriage returns in the code. If you just paste your own information over the text in red, you should be okay. Note: The red lines may be wrapping around in the examples below without carriage returns. Don’t add any carriage returns to match the way the screen with these lines looks They are also bigger font just for your reading pleasure.

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The Description Box - A Deep Resource

Pictures in Description Boxes

Find an image on the web you would like for your Description Box. To get the exact address of that image, click on it as “Copy Image Location” (FireFox), “Copy Image Address” (Safari), etc. Cut and paste the address over the red lines. Be sure not to touch the symbols and quotation marks around the red lines. The examples are in a bigger font and are red. Then put the whole thing in the Description Box. The image should then appear in the box, You can put text with it, too, just by typing after the line commands. Give yourself some carriage returns between the code and the regular text.

<img src="http://earth.google.com/green/greensummertext.jpg ">

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The Description Box - A Deep Resource

Formatting Video Links in Your Description Box You can add spaces, carriage returns, and other formatting to make your description boxes better. The examples are in a bigger font and are red </center> <a href="http://earth.google.com/green/LV1.html">Click for Video</a>

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The Description Box - A Deep Resource

Live Webcams

The webcam pictures will appear inside the Description Box of Placemarks. They will refresh as often as the webcam refreshes. Cut and paste the webcam address of another web over the red text below. When getting a webcam address, be sure you have a direct webcam address and not an intermediary site address (look for the .jpg extension). Cut and paste over the red text below with your selected webcam address.

<center> <img src="http://www.manntheatres.com/webcam/images/camera2 -0.jpg"> </center> You can type readable information in the box after a carriage return.

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Lots of places to find educational (and fun!) webcams

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The Description Box - A Deep Resource

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The Description Box - A Deep Resource

Download the Example Placemark collection - Download the sample media files

Embedding Windows Media Compliant Files (.mp3, .wmv, .asf, .mpg, .avi) - Movies and Audio

On the next slide is the basic code you will need to put in your placemark description windows (Create a placemark, or get 'Properties'' of an existing placemark). There are only a few things you need to change to get it to work, but you can fiddle with some of the <param> functions too if you wish. The red text items are the only things you need to change while the lavendar ones are optional.! If you have multimedia in a non Windows Media recognized format, like Quicktime or RealPlayer, the conversion utility 'Super' is a free, very powerful tool. Lavendar text are optional settings you can change if you wish by making them either 'true' or 'false'

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The Description Box - A Deep Resource

Download the Example Placemark collection - Download the sample media files

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer1" width=637 height=421 classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"

codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,902"

standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">

<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="file:///c:/foldername/filename.mp3">

<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="true">

<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">

<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">

<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">

<EMBED type="application/x-mplayer2"

pluginspage = "http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"

SRC=" file:///c:/foldername/filename.mp3"

name="MediaPlayer1" width=637 height=421 AutoStart=true>

</EMBED>

</OBJECT>

(Note for .mp3 files: change the height to 45 or 50 so only the controller shows)

Thank you, Brad Fountain for finding this code (Windows only, for now)

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Insert Video: An easy way using You Tube.

Upload a video onto You Tube.

You Tube will give you code when your upload is complete.

Paste that code into your description box. You will have video that plays on Google Earth.

This is for Windows only, at the moment.

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Adding Placemarks to Play Video or Audio from URL links

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Adding Placemarks that play video from URL links - Free sites

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1. Find media online

2. Click to Stream.

3. As it streams Right Click, then click properties, and copy location.

4. Paste in Google Earth Placemark Description box.

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a. Right Click on green play icon

b. In the box that opens, select Copy Shortcut.

c. Paste in the Google Earth Placemark Description box.

Adding Placemarks that play video from URL links - Discovery Education streaming

Clicking on the link will launch a browser that will play the video

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Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts

1. Find media, stories, sounds, etc., online

2. Click to Stream.

3. As it streams Right Click screen, then click properties, and copy location. Or, if the URL is available, copy the location from the browser.

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4. Copy location from Properties window or from the web address line in the browser (e.g., Explorer)

5. Paste in Google Earth Placemark Description box.

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You can conceal information in the URL by going to TinyURL.com and getting a “coded” link to the same site.

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Click on “HallOz.kmz GoogleEarth will launch.If not, open it from GoogleEarth The floating head will appear.

Click on HallOz in Temporary PlacesChoose Save Place As Save as KML, not as KMZ. You usually have

to change this

Deeper into Image Overlays (Screen Overlays)

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Deeper into Image Overlays (Screen Overlays)

Procedure for Screen Overlays: 1. Short Version: Copy and Paste the web add ress of your i mage over the tex t below. Use Wor d or ot her

text edit or. Save. Rename as .k mz. Open f rom GoogleEarth. 2. Download the HallOz.kmz file from

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com / media_mat ters/ 3. Click t he fil e t o open it . T his sh ould la unch Goog leEart h. If not , open the fi le f rom Goog leEart h. 4. The f il e will be in you r Temporary Places. Cl ick on i t . From GoogleEarth> File, select Save Place As

and select KML (not KMZ). No te: Word opens a K MZ on some PCs ju st as easily as KMLs. Not Macs. 5. Launch Wor d (or Not ePad, Tex tEdi t , etc.). Open the HallOz.k ml fi le. 6. Insert your own text , websi te, or v id eo add ress over t he red tex t (below). 7. Save t he f i le. You ma y get warning m essages. Ignor e them. Close the fil e. 8. Find t he f i le on your deskt op. Cl ick on it (don’ t launch it! ). Renam e it . Chang e the fi le ext ensi on to

.kmz. Open it i n GoogleEarth and be amazed. For h elp, g o to the above blogl ink and leave a quest ion.

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Deeper into Image Overlays (Screen Overlays)

For ScreenOverlays – The “Floating Head” Effect Cut and paste over the red lines. Be sure not to touch the symbols around the red lines. The examples are in a bigger font and are red just for clarity. Remember after pasting in your own pictures for ScreenOverlays you must convert the document to a kmz file by changing its extension. You change the extension just like you change a name. Ignore the warning you will receive. To see your overlay, click on the kmz file which should launch GoogleEarth or open it from GoogleEarth. For more detail, see the accompanying PowerPoint. Note: For this version, the picture must be on the web. To get the address of the image you want to use instead of the head, go the image you want on the web, right -click (control-click on Mac). “Copy Image Address” then paste over the image address in the code below. Your browser may use a slightly different command. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.1"> <ScreenOverlay id="khScreenOverlay974"> <name>Beard</name> <LookAt id="khLookAt975"> <longitude>-61.69480402391395</longitude> <latitude>16.11957090813545</latitude> <altitude>0</altitude> <range>10056.25389044684</range> <tilt>77.67246913730361</tilt> <heading>-24.37696764355566</heading> </LookAt> <Icon> <href>http://www.denblogs.com/media_matters/images/2007/06/21/hallbeardtnbw.png</href> </Icon> <overlayXY x="0.5" y="0.5" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/> <screenXY x="0.3" y="0.7" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/> <rotationXY x="0.5" y="0.5" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/> <size x="0" y="0" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/> </ScreenOverlay> </kml> The blue numbers in the ScreenOverlay code determine the size of the image in relationship to the screen and the where the image will be within the screen. Play around with them and see how the size and location changes. The numbers are locations on the x/y coordinate plane. “Fractions” mean a fraction of the screen. Pixels are hard sizes.

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Hall DavidsonDirector, Discovery Educator Network

hall_davidson@discovery.comJerome BurgThank you!