Maps

//**Google Earth**//


 * Featured Presentation:** Hall Davidson- [|Staggeringly Good Things Integrating Media and Google Earth] Description: GoogleEarth is a powerful tool for viewing geography and terrain. It is free and runs on both platforms. Teachers are immediately engaged by it. But it's instructional possibilities go much beyond viewing maps. Instructional videos can be inserted at appropriate points. History paths, trends, and pivital points from speeches, music, and media can be assembled in a visual way against physical terrain. There are user groups already established who post, share, and build upon each others' work. Video has been documented to increase student achievement (Cometrik, 9/04 and 5/02). Integration with a live, Internet-based tool like GoogleEarth brings Internet media together in a form that can be easily published (as kmz files) and shared across platforms and communities. Participants will learn how to insert videos, images, interactive grids (weather radar, population densities, etc.),and linked assets such as radio stories from National Public Radio, speeches from the History Channel site, videos from PBS and Discovery, as well as public domain sources. Also, the ability of students around the globe to share their world views through layers of images saved as kmz files and shared with students from other countries will be demonstrated with examples.

[|Flickr and Google Earth Merge in This Exciting Mashup!] //**Viewfinder**// From Ewan McIntosh's blog.

04-02-08 eSchool News [|Free Lesson Plans Help Bring Google earth into Classrooms] ""Google Earth Lessons" is a free public resource created by teachers, for teachers, to give educators tools and ideas for using the free Google Earth software in their classrooms. "

Download Google Earth [|here].

[|Google Earth: Small World, Your World, Our World] A Teacher's Guide to Google Earth for the 21st Century Classroom From Apple Learning Interchange "This guide will show all Google Earth users--from novice to experienced--how to integrate this incredible free resource seamlessly into daily lessons."

[|Telling Stories on Maps]

[|Google Earth Blog] A user's guide.

[|Google Earth Lessons] Incredible resource!

[|Atlas Gloves] "Atlas Gloves is a DIY physical interface for controlling 3D mapping applications like Google Earth. The user interface is a pair of illuminating gloves that can be used to track intuitive hand gestures like grabbing, pulling, reaching and rotating. The Open Source Atlas Gloves application can be downloaded here and operated from home using a webcam and two self-made illuminating gloves (or flashlights)."

//**Google Maps**//

[|We Tell Stories] A British author uses Google Maps to publish a thriller. Charles Cumming's "The 21 Steps" is about a man in London who thinks he's being followed, and readers follow the story as it unfolds in Google Maps. This could be a perfect new medium for choose-your-own-adventure tales.

[|Telling Stories on Maps]

[|Google Maps]

[|Google Maps Mania] An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, [|mashups] and tools being influenced by Google Maps. Let's get down to what is really important. Attention //**chocolate lovers**//! Check out this [|Chcomap Mashup]!

//[|Use Google Maps Mashups in K-12 Education]// From Technology and Learning 05-15-06

Check out [|these educators] who are using Google Maps in classroom instruction.

[|Map Builder] Tag your own locations on a map and publish it on your own web site. It's free.