UA Technology in Motion

Google Earth @ AEA PD

Robert Mayben: rmayben@bama.ua.edu

Technology in Motion: www.technologyinmotion.state.al.us

Overview of Google Earth

1) Google Earth Home: www.earth.google.com

a. Download Instructions (http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html)

b. Google Earth Showcase (http://earth.google.com/showcase)

c. Product Tour (http://earth.google.com/tour)

d. Five Cool Things to do in Google Earth (earth.google.com/userguide/v4/#fivethings)

2) Google Earth for Educators: www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html

a. Some Classroom Uses (http://www.google.com/educators/google_earth.html)

b. See Google Earth Resources on the next page for more classroom ideas.

Navigating Google Earth

The Google Earth User Guide can be located by going to HELP in Google Earth or by visiting http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ on the web. An Internet connection is required.

1) Search

2) Navigation

3) Places (Sightseeing)

4) Layers

Placemarks

1) Add Folder to My Places

2) Adding Placemarks

3) Playing Tour of Placemarks

4) Saving Placemarks for Viewing on Other Computers

5) More Placemark Resources:

Æ Marking Places: http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_placemarks.html

Æ Tutorial: http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/tutorials/marking_locations.html

Æ Google Touring: http://www.googletouring.com/create.php

Google Earth Classroom Ideas & Other Resources

1) Google Earth Education Community: edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/dherring/ge/googleearth.htm

2) Integrating Google Earth into the Curriculum: http://caden.editme.com/GoogleEarth

3) Google Earth Handout: lakelandschools.org/Edtech/ResourcePages/Handout.pdf

4) Google Earth Resources: lakelandschools.org/edtech/ResourcePages/google-earth.htm

5) More Google Earth Resources: www.il-tce.org/present07/handouts/kane2.pdf

6) Discovery Education & Google Earth: www.google.com/educators/p_earth_discovery.html

7) Google Earth & Unitedstreaming: services.google.com/educators/learning_materials/Earth_Getting_Started_Guide.pdf

8) Google Earth 101 for Educators: www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Google_Earth_101_for_Educators

9) Google Sightseeing: www.googlesightseeing.com

10)Image Overlay: www.keyhole.com/GoogleEarthHelp/Overlays/Using_Image_Overlays.htm

11)Google Earth Blog: www.gearthblog.com/index.html

12)Juicy Geography: www.juicygeography.co.uk/googleearth.htm