Google+Earth+and+Maps


 * Google Earth **

@http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html
 * Google Earth Tutorials: **

 Tons of ideas for Google Earth: @http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/GeogP/gearthplan/  Google Earth Blog: @http://www.gearthblog.com/index.html  Instructional Uses for Google Earth: @http://www.assortedstuff.com/stuff/?p=278 media type="custom" key="7581875"
 * Google Earth Resources: **

 Google Earth Tours can be created for a variety of purposes.
 * Google Earth Tours: **
 * Teachers sharing locations that have to do with a new unit
 * Teachers sharing tours of continents, ocean, landforms, etc. that will be studied in class
 * Scavenger hunts to explore different places.
 * Student created tours of landforms, cities, countries, time zones and just about any other map related concept
 * Student created tours to tell a story about and adventure.
 * Student created tours to tell about their community, town or city.


 * Tours can include: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Placemarks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Descriptions of places
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Pictures of places
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Audio telling about places
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Music
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Layers, 3-D Buildings, and many other special features
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Embedded projects such as VoicThreads for certain places

1. On Toolbar click on Add -> Folder :: Give it a name and description
====2. Zoom to the location you wish to start with. Select/deselect the layers as desired.====

4. Give the placemark a name and description (icon can be changed)
====5. Fly to next placemark and orient the earth in the direction you wish to fly into this placemark.====

6. Repeat steps 2-4 until you have created all the placemarks you want.
====7. Click and drag the placemarks into the folder, arrange them in the order you wish.====

8. To play a tour, click on the folder icon w/ the play button.

 * to add a picture to a placemark, locate the copyright friendly image, use Google advanced image search and choose 'labeled for reuse'. Find an appropriate image and click on 'full-size image'. Copy the url and paste into the Placemark description using the following html code: <img src="paste url here"> Be sure to include attribution to the image.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Creating a Google Tour: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">media type="custom" key="4569096" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">media type="custom" key="9121106"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Setting up the Placemarks: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Adding Audio and Saving the Tour: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Each student researched a location of interest and placemarked it on the map. Within each placemark they included information, sources, pictures, and a link. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113560546818436174809.0004635dd117322245f29&t=h&ll=37.579413,-95.712891&spn=32.546715,53.349609&output=embed" width="425" height="350" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Math Maps Collaborative Project using Google Maps
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Check out this Google Map project done by Mrs. Miller's Special Interest Students: **