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Google Earth TutorialsPart II Creating Basic Placemarks

Hosts Thomas Cooper, Alice Barr

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Placemarks Visualize Information

Text

Images

Web Links

Video Audio

Icons

Slides

Documents

Navigation

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Data Layers Contain Placemarks

Over 206 layers in the primary

data base

Major ones: roads, traffic,

weather, Wikipedia, National

Geographic, and global

awareness.

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Creating Basic Placemarks

Directions

1. Find the location on

earth you want the

placemark.

2. Click on the yellow

push pin in the toolbar

3. Name the placemark

4. Enter the text you

want to visualize.

5. Press OK.

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Editing Placemarks

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Directions

1. Right click on the placemark in the

Places panel

2. Choose properties from the menu3. Placemark will open, allowing you

to add information.

Hint: In order to change the location of

a placemark, you need to have the

properties box open.

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Organize Placemarks within Folders

Directions

1. Go to the Places panel

2. Right-click on MyPlaces icon

3. Add >> Folder

4. Name the folder

5. Click and drag anyplacemarks you have

crated into that folder

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Adding Text

Directions

1. Right click on theplacemark

2. Go to properties

3. Type in the text youwant

4. Use HTML tags toorganize text

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Text Header Tags

text -Largest

text

text

text

text

text -Smallest

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Aligning Text

Thistext will be alignedleft

This text will becentered

This text will bealigned right

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Images Need to Be Online

GE uses XHTML codeto refer to an imagestored online.

Use photosharingsites to store yourphotos: Facebook,Flickr, Picasa WebAlbum, Photobucket,or a Wiki

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Working with Images

Main Image Tag

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Anatomy of a Tag

Open Tags and Closed Tags

Open Tag and Close Tag

Tags are nested

Three parts of a tag: (tag, attribute, value)

Example

tag attribute value

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Adding Web Links

Main Tag Structure

Link

Text

Web Link

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Working with Email Links

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Working with Lists

Equipment List

unordered list (or)

ordered list (1., 2., 3.)

list item onelist item two

or

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Use Rulers to Separate Page Elements

No closing tag

necessary

Can be set to a specific

length

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Saving Your Work

Directions1. Click and drag found

places into the folderyou created

2. Make sure the folder ischecked.

3. Collapse the folder

4. Highlight the folder byclicking on it.

5. Go to File >> Save As >>Save Place As

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Online HTML Tutorialshttp://www.w3schools.com/html/

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Presentation Slides & Resourceshttp://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com/Tutorials

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Next Session

Monday Nov. 23rd 8 pm EST

Google Earth Geometry

Topics: Points, Paths, & Polygons

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