Learning Expeditions

Learning Expeditions:Using Google Earth to Explore, Collaborate and Promote Social Engagement Online

Networked Learninghttp://www.thenetworkedlearner.com

How to absorb the next 60 minutes

• Know there are links to all of this information online.

• Contribute to our discussions.

• Write down your brainstorms of HOW you will take this information to your classrooms.

• Feel free to follow along when we jump online to these apps!

Networked Learning 2009

Where to find this informationThe Networked Learner Wikihttp://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com


Agenda

Session I

• What is a Geo-Application?

• Overview of Geo-Tools

• Getting Around in Earth

• Creating Searches

• Adding Content

• Searching for Content

• Layers in Google Earth

• Google Earth Community

Session II

• Developing Learning Expeditions

• Lesson Ideas for All Grades

• Creating Placemarks

• Embeding Video and Other Apps

• Save Your Work


What is a geo-application?

• Geographical Information Systems store data and associate the data, stored in a database, with points and polygons that comprise a map.

• Various tools allow you to manipulate these data points and understand the relationships between them.


Geo-Tools that talk to each other

Maps• View in web browser

• Create custom Google maps

• Easy Collaboration

• Shared via simple web links

• Embed easily in a website

Earth

• Highly realistic with title, rotate & zoom

• 3D terrain and 3D buildings

• Virtual flights through content

• Layers an many subjects


Geo-Tools that talk to each other (cont.)

Google Sky

• Earth and Space-based telescope data viewed in web browsers

• Historical maps of the sky

• Virtual flights through the solar system and beyond

• 3D terrain of the Moon and Mars

Sketchup

• Teach perspective and spatial relationships

• Create, modify and share 2D and 3D models

• Embed models in Earth


Google for Educatorshttp://www.google.com/educators/geo.html


Downloading Google Earthhttp://earth.google.com


Google Earth 5.0 Interface


Search Panel

Places Panel

Layers Panel

Nav. Tools

Menu Bar – Content Creation Tools

Lat., Long. and Elevation

Searching for Contenthttp://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en


Use Google’s Advanced Search to find file types .KML or .KMZ

Layers in Google Earth

• Over 200 layers on different topics associated with many disciplines.

• More layers to download from the Google Earth Showcase and Google Earth Online Community.

• Students can create their own content, including embedding video, audio, quizzes, and more.

• Development of layers is scalable from basic insertion of text to the use of XHTML and JavaScript


Earth Outreach Showcasehttp://earth.google.com/outreach/showcase.html


Share Your Lesson IdeasGoogle Earth Communityhttp://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/


Developing Learning ExpeditionSession II


Geo-Apps inspire students to…

Discover Your World- conduct research and identify problems

Engage in Discourse - talk about historical events and their significance on modern society

Collect and Analyze Data- use spatial tools and math skills to problem solving

Negotiate Your Surrounding- to find your location, explore a trail or go on an adventure in a foreign land and meet

people from other cultures

Become Globally Aware- look at global issues that affect us all; understand the relationship between people

and places

Engage in Social Action- to become part of civil and social engagement efforts to solve problems in our

community and abroad


Discover Your World

• Google Apps can be used to inspire students to do discover and be aware of their surrounding.

• Pre-K and K students memorize their home address and are then shown where it is in Google Earth.

Networked Learning 2009More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into PreK and K at:http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_65dzbp67gs

Engage in Discourse

• Geo Apps allow you to add points, polygons and 3D shapes and then save the file. You can also add placemarks which can contain text, pictures, and links.

• In this activity, 3rd graders researched American explorers and collectively built a map of their research, then discussed the significance on modern scoiety.

Networked Learning 2009More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into the Elementary Classroom at:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_66dvcqqbrh

Collect and Analyze Data

• Students used satellite images from Google Earth and various embedded math tools to determine the slope and difficulty and then compared it to Ski resort ratings.

Networked Learning 2009More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into Middle School at:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_68dp4wdxcc

Integrate GPS Data into Earth

• 6th grade students at Walker took Garmin GPS units to the Atlanta zoo and used them to find the location of various animals. Besides collecting data on some of the animals for science class, the also uploaded the data points and were tasked with calculating the shortest route to see all of the animals with minimal overlapping in their route. The also calculated the total distance walked during the exercise.


Negotiate Your Surrounding

• Use GeoApps to plan hiking, caving and camping trips. High school students at Walker create Expedition Lit Trips to study historical and modern explores and the significance their discoveries played on modern society and extreme sports.

Networked Learning 2009Expedition Lit Trips can be found at:

http://expeditionlittrips.wikispaces.com

Teacher as Designer

• See yourself as a curriculum designer – owner of the curriculum you teach.

• Honor creativity – yours first, then the student’s

• Repurpose the technology! Go beyond simple “use” and “integration” to innovation.


Poetry of Placehttp://poetryofplace.wikispaces.com

• Students can learn about the beauty of a place by taking pictures and studying the poetry written about a particular place and then create placemarks about their studies.

Networked Learning 2009More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into High School at:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_69chpv96f8

Become Globally Aware

• Students can use Geo Apps to create layers about a social issues and to raise awareness and plan fund raising activities.

• In this project, students study how children are marginalized around the world through poverty, malnutrition, mental disorders, disease and other topics. Students use their online networks to raise money for global children’s charities.

Networked Learning 2009The Lost Children’s projects can be found at:http://ourlostchildren.wikispaces.com

Scaffolds to Becoming a Networked Learner

• Share

• Cooperate

• Collaborate

• Collective Action

According to Clay Shirky “Here Comes Everyone” , there are for stages to becoming a networked learner. - http://www.shirky.com/


Explore the Spatial Relationship of History and Literature

Networked Learning 2009Expedition Lit Trips project can be found at:http://landofhope.wikispaces.com

• Students read books on expedition history and extreme sports around the globe. These students are interested in history, its people and the places they lived. We are also interested in studying the significance historical expeditions play on contemporary literature.

Cooperate with Others to Learn

• Students from around the country are cooperating on an interdisciplinary project to visualize various historical and modern immigrations around the globe. They are interested in the push and pull factors that motivate people from various cultures to move.

Networked Learning 2009The Land of Hope project can be found at:http://landofhope.wikispaces.com

Engage in Research and Social Action

• Students at all grade levels through college can collaborate on developing research questions, collect data (chemical, geological, biological, cultural), and analyze information to study a current problem. The project encourages students to take responsibility for keeping their local water supply clean.

• Google Docs, Forms, Sites and Earth can be used to display and share data between researchers.

Networked Learning 2009The Clean Watersheds project can be found at:http://cleanwatersheds.wikispaces.com

Education is on the Move

Shifting From

Learning at School

Teaching as a private event

Learning as passive participant

Learning as individuals

Linear knowledge

Shifting To

Learning anytime / anywhere

Teaching as a public, collaborative practice

Learning in a participatory culture

Learning in a networked community

Distributed knowledge


Question Your Role in EducationAnd the Role of Technology

• Are you using your technology resources to promote global connections and collaborations?

• How are you using technology to promote deep rigor and critical thinking skills?

• Are you creating digital citizens who understand good and right in a fast changing world?

• Do you balance the celebration of individual achievement with empowering students to live and succeed in a participatory culture-- one that shifts the focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement?

• Are you maximizing the opportunities of collective action to underscore what a life of purpose and service can entail in the 21st Century?


Google Earth Screencast Tutorialshttp://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com/Tutorials


Screencast Tutorials Available on wiki site.

Thank You

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

- John Hope Franklin


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