What On (Google) Earth Is That For Ss Clc
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“What on (Google) Earth is that ?” Alan Parkinson Secondary Curriculum Development Leader Geographical Association South Sheffield City Learning Centre 31 st March 2009 http://earth.google.com http://googlearthusersguide.blogspo t.com [email protected]
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Some ideas for using Google Maps and Google Earth in the geography classroom (although many ideas could become cross-curricular)
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“What on (Google) Earth is that ?”
Alan ParkinsonSecondary Curriculum Development Leader
Geographical AssociationSouth Sheffield City Learning Centre
31st March 2009
http://earth.google.comhttp://googlearthusersguide.blogspot.com
Google Earth 5 – new featuresAre you up to date ?
Fly beneath the oceans...Intro launch movie....
The Ocean LayerEcosystems & Earthquakes
Google Earth Street View
• Added last week – the GA were involved in the launch of the technology, which has been slightly controversial...
• Face-blurring technology• Sheffield one of 25 settlements to be
featured in the first tranche...
What uses could you put this to ?
The Official Guide(Not completely up to date now...)
• http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ • Contains video tutorials on most common
tasks that can be done using Google Earth
• Students as producers rather than consumers• AUDIENCE & PURPOSE
The ‘unofficial’ guide...http://googlearthusersguide.com
Teaching ideas and updates
Other sites you need to use
Google Outreach (different curriculum areas)http://gearthblog.com The latest news on GE from Frank Taylor
http://earth.google.com/outreach/showcase.html
Digital ExplorerJamie Buchanan Dunlop
http://digitalexplorer.co.uk/resources/manuals/
• Booklets to download – Basic and Advanced• Ideas for fieldwork and activities in the school
ground (‘virtual fieldwork’)• Step by step user guides with screenshots
360 Cities http://www.360cities.net
Big Huge Labs
‘Comparative’ measures...
Placemarks
• Can have digital media included in them• Can also choose your own image to have as
the placemark
Host your pictures / videos online...
• Why not use the GA’s NING networking site to host your images ?
• http://geographical.ning.com• Over 570 geographers already there...
• Can then use the location of the image when adding the placemark code
Paths• Click at locations along a path and then fly
along the route.• New TOURING feature in Google Earth 5
Polygons
• Can be used to ‘shade in’ areas on a map, or to create boxes which mark the locations of buildings, events, data collection points.
• They can be flown round by adding a tour once created.
Ollie Bray Learning Teaching Scotland
Noel Jenkins• http://www.olliebray.com
• http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk
IDEAS FOR USING IN THE CLASSROOM
http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2009/02/teaching-with-google-earth-5-the-mystery-of-history-and-other-new-developments
SunlightSlide across and see the light change
Tom BarrettStory Telling with Google Earth
An excellent series of blog posts: Google Earth is our Paper
http://tbarrett.edublogs.org
Practical session / idea sharing
• Uses of VOCAROO: embedded sounds in placemarks
Thanks to Tom Barrett for the images – captured using JING
Kunstlercast.comhttp://odblog.blogspot.com
• Walking tour• Similar to handsets in art exhibitions...• ‘Podcast’ with points to look out...• Numbered bookmarks...• Town trails...
http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/google_earth/index.html
