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Comprehensive site for information on Google Earth

Greeat resource for Google Earth

Everything you wanted to learn about Google Earth and maps including maps engines lite.

Great interactive to connect google apps with blooms taxonomy.

From Kathy Schrock a really easy way to use google apps to support higher order thinking skills

"VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document. "

Great overview of EasyBib. Includes info on adding to google apps.

good overview of google +

"a new Google Maps game develop by Google. Smarty Pins presents players with a trivia question that they have to answer by placing a pin on a map. Players earn "miles" for correctly placing a pin on the map. Players can lose miles for answering incorrectly and or taking too long to answer. Games are available in five categories; arts & culture, science & geography, sports & games, entertainment, and history & current events."

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link to google news archives.

Good resource if you are trying to find primary sources. Many foreign and local newspapers are cataloged.

Tutorials and videos on how to use the new my maps in google

This is the Government search component of Google. This is a GREAT way to find a lot of details and information for debate and diplomacy.

Get More Out Of Your Google Searches: http://zd.net/etlLKN

Historical images from Google Maps. Select a location and get a time line of images from Google Maps.

Great post on using google advanced search. Easy to follow ideas

Great post on teaching advanced search and why it is important to teach these techniques.

"Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time."

This site looks amazing. Takes google maps to a whole new level.

Create digital stories using google earth and storyboard that.

From Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers: "allows you to create a short video about the searches that you perform on Google. To create your video you enter your search terms, select some background music, and let the creator render a video for you."

So many exciting possibilities. Has many applications to DISCOVER search process

"Spacehopper is a new geography game [that features geography questions] that are based on Google Maps Street View imagery. Spacehopper shows you a Street View image and you have to guess where in the world the image was captured. You can click the clue button to have the country identified before making a guess. After three incorrect guesses the correct answer will be revealed to you. You can play Spacehopper on a global level or you can specify that you only want to see images from a particular continent."

Google map scavenger hunts. You can create your own or play a game already created.

"Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information. Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to them. They can make inferences by comparing places to other locations. In addition, students can learn about the world through rich layers of mappable data offered by Google's server and a great deal of third-party content. They can also create and display their own data."