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.
Google Earth Hacks provides links to interesting content found or created by users like you and gives you quick access to check things out in Google Earth.
Lots of great ways to teach with Google Earth. This site includes how it can be used, how educators are using Google Earth (with resources), how to use it as a reasearch tool, good places to get data, and how to keep up with Google Earth changes. There are lots of things here for all subject areas.
Ready to get started teaching with Google Earth? Want to see some examples of classroom use? This is a collection of ready-to-use classroom activities that use Google Earth.
Google said that it has opened to third-party developers the programming interfaces to Google Earth, the company’s 3-D visualization software. That will allow developers to embed Google Earth on their Web sites, much like they already can do with Google Maps.
Google has invited “citizen cartographers” to refine the U.S. map for Google Maps and Google Earth, using Google Map Maker to ensure the places you care about are richly represented on the map.Google Map Maker lets you add places, “lines” (like railroads or back alleys), and “shapes” (like a parking lot or Laundromat) to a map. Google has also embedded street-level images from Street View directly into Map Maker for easier navigation.
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Thanks to all who stopped by our booth #2617 and listened to one of the presentations in our teaching theater or saw a demo of Google Apps, Google Search, Google Earth, Chrome OS, or App Inventor."