“What on (Google) Earth is that ?”A quick updateAlan Parkinson

Geographical AssociationCENT, Rotherham – 9th Feb 2009

http://earth.google.comhttp://googlearthusersguide.blogspot.com

aparkinson@geography.org.uk

Google Earth 5 – new featuresAre you up to date ?

Fly beneath the oceans...Intro launch movie....

The Ocean LayerEcosystems & Earthquakes

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

The ‘unofficial’ guide...http://googlearthusersguide.com

Teaching ideas and updates

Other sites you need to use

• Google Outreach (different curriculum areas)e.g: Culture, Arts & Humanities

Environment and Sciencehttp://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

Placemarks

• Can have digital media included in them• Can also choose your own image to have as

the placemark• WILL DEMONSTRATE THIS AS REQUIRED

Host your pictures / videos online...

• Why not use the GA’s NING networking site to host your images ?

• http://geographical.ning.com• Over 430 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

3D Ancient Rome – Classics / History

• Open the GALLERY LAYER