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Teleport around the globe with this excellent Google mashup (via @DanBowen) I can see this working as a lesson starter for creative writing or in geography (obviously). Probably lots of other ways to use it too. It's great fun.

It is good fun, but if I were to use it in a science lesson say, what kind of animals live in this habitat, I'd spend 15 mins teleporting until I found somewhere decent. You would have to be quite lucky to get somewhere which isn't some generic street with fly-tipping and doubleparking.

A number of video tutorials for many common tasks in Google Earth

"EarthSwoop was created to allow people to quickly view interesting 3D sights around the world in a web browser. Not only that, but EarthSwoop makes it simple to create your own collections and share them with your friends."