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Frank Taylor, author of the Google Earth Blog, has put together a nice video tutorial demonstrating how to use Google's StreetView imagery within Google Earth. Frank demonstrates not only how to activate StreetView, but also how to use it in conjunction with other Google Earth elements such as the 3D buildings layer. You can watch the video below or watch the video and read the instructions on the Google Earth Blog.

Picnik Acquired by Google.

If you want to download YouTube Video/Movie in Google Chrome, you can try following JavaScript plugins, it will instantly get the video URL from the webpage even if it's not yet finished loading. No Website or software is needed.

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A Whole New Way to Appreciate Great Literature! Plot and illustrate the book on a google map

"Building Maker is a 3D modeling tool for adding buildings to Google Earth."

"If you're tracking several data points to see changes over time, you can create an interactive Motion Chart. "

Whirled uses Google Wave to say goodbye to 2009. music by: the temper trap http://www.thetempertrap.net created by: whirled interactive http://www.getwhirled.com

from J valenza's column - A search on Impressionism reveals 12 large thumbnail stacks of paintings by a variety of Impressionist painters organized by their visual and semantic similarities. Select a stack and the images arrange themselves as a cluster, swirling into view. You can continue to drill down through related subgroups within each cluster in a mapping strategy, reminiscent of Google's Wonder Wheel available in the Search Options panel. Image Swirl searches are currently available for approximately 200,000 queries. - http://u.nu/56bw3

"Leeman's July 9, 2014, Edublogger post pointed to a number of valuable sources of free images. Yet I'm wondering whether this resource wouldn't survive and possibly even grow if it were to provide seed content for a broad collective endeavour. Some parallels that spring to mind are Levine's 50+ web ways to tell a story wiki (http://50ways.wikispaces.com/50Contribute), and Tom Barrett's interesting ways crowd-sourcing endeavours with Google (http://edte.ch/blog/?page_id=424)." Another example is the iPhone Apps for the World Languages Teacher collection started by Isabelle Jones.

Sue Waters provides "advice to help you get started or get more out of using Instagram" (2012.05.28).

| The Teacher Chronicles "A well produced movie can sometimes be enough to shake my world completely. It can change my perspectives on things I thought I was certain about. Here's a list of 10 movies I think that every teacher, or every person working with people, should see (in no particular order)."

User created virtual tours of destinations, journeys,

Art from museums around the world