What On (Google) Earth Is That For Ss Clc

“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

aparkinson@geography.org.uk

My contact details

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aparkinson@geography.org.uk

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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

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