A project funded by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) with an Innovative Geography Teaching Grant to develop teaching ideas for using Google Earth in the Geography classroom.
Richard Byrn, the popular blogger at Free Technology for Teachers and Practical Ed Tech is offering an exciting new Webinar about using Google Earth & Google Maps in the classroom. The 3 part course is offered over a three week period.
Import your data from spreadsheets, maintain it with fun tools, share with coworkers and friends, publish to the world.
* Create a rich locator application
* Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography with your own data.
* Quickly visualize GIS datasets from Shapefiles, MapInfo files
* Share geo-data among members of your organization
* Geocode lists of addresses
via http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-maps-creation-tool.html
This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!
Our collection of Google Earth tours grows by the day, with many contributors adding theirs. All the sights of the world are now at your fingertips right here!