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== =**Google Earth & Google Maps making learning real**=

Google Earth and Google Maps can be accessed on a varitety of devices - Smart phones, iPads, tablets, iTouch, Mac or PC. As universal learning tools they have the capacity to create context and understanding, develop literacy skills and become immersed learning environments.

They are powerful tools to introduce a lesson or, as a hands-on opportunity for students to plot a story narrative, relive an expedition or travel back in time.

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Note: Street View and Earth View [|Earth view comes to Google Maps]

[|Google Maps 3D samples]

In this hands-on workshop, conference delegates will learn how to use participants will learn how apply Google Maps and Google Earth to classroom instruction examining. They will examine possibilities for raising students, as producers and collaborators, to a higher level of thinking. To do this they will: media type="youtube" key="1gMSRFllN9M?rel=0" height="244" width="392" align="right"
 * 1) Explore similarities and differences between these mapping tools
 * 2) Navigating and searching in Google Maps and Google Earth
 * 3) Customize Google Map Placemarks with text, links and images
 * 4) Explore the various features of Google Earth
 * 5) Share Custom Google Maps with links and as embedded maps on webpages
 * 6) Use Google Earth custom KML/KMZ files created by others
 * 7) Create Google Earth custom KML/KMZ web tours based on Lit Trips model, and share them. nana

Google Lit Trips
[|Google Lit Trips Homepage] by Jerome Burg [|Google Lit Trips - Downloadable tips step-by-step guides] - apply to any use of Google Earth [|Google Lit Trips lesson] [|Exploring Google Lit Trips] Expedition Lit Trips - Thomas Cooper [|Google Historical Voyages and Events] global project by Carol LaRow

Google Earth - the software and getting started
[|Google Earth download] [|Tours in Google Earth] - very explicit instructions for getting started [|Five cool, easy things you can do in Google Earth] -- a good place to start [|Google Earth Outreach Tutorials] [|Google Earth User Guide Version 5] - comprehensive guide for GE 5 and above. [|Google Earth and Maps - Best Extras] [|Celebrating the heroes of Google Earth] ## [|Google Earth Gallery] [|Google Earth Hacks]

Google Earth community
[|Google Earth for Educators] [|Google Earth Outreach Community] [|Google Earth blog] [|Google Earth Sightseer newsletter] [|Google Sightseeing] [|The unOfficial Google Earth blog] [|Google Earth Community] [|Podcasts on using Google Earth from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Integrating Google Tools 4 Teachers - Google Earth] - Colette Cassineli <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">## [|One World Many Stories] - Google Earth stories arranged in themes, community contribution invited media type="custom" key="9493660" align="right"

Teaching with Google Maps and Google Earth
[|Create your own .kmz files with ThematicMapping] - [|blog post with detail] [|USGS Global Earthquake Program] [|Basics of using Timeline slider] [|Google Earth Outreach] - YouTube [|Google Earth Video help] - YouTube [|Learn Google Earth Navigation] - YouTube History Tours - 6 tours by European history students

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Lesson Plans - only some of the many**
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Google Earth for Educators - lessons] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Juicy Geography Google Earth Lessons] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Google Earth Plan on Shambles - extensive list of teaching resources] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|50 ways to use Google Earth in the Classroom] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|A complete guide to using Google Earth in the GeoScience classroom] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Google UK School] - history and geography lessons - British Empire, slave trade, castles <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|US History Tours powered by Google Earth] - Revolutionary War, Path to Civil War, Road to Civil Rights, Vietnam Conflict <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Google Earth and Discovery Education] American Revolution, Great monuments of the World <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Real World Math using Google Earth]

**Google Earth - Real Life Use**
[|Google Earth helps discover rare hominid ancestor in South Africa] [|Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth] [|Feral Scan - Camel Scan] - tracking wild camels in outback Australia

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Google Maps - an easy alternative to Google Earth (3D)**
[|Google Treks] - (2D) in Google Maps - across the curriculum, prep to adult activities [|Pompei Street View] in Google Maps

## Other Map Tools
[|NearMap] - an Australian mapping product [|Scribble Maps] - simple map making integrated with Google Maps [|Google Earth Knowledge] - Virtual Globe [|Geo Greeting] - fun tool - send a greeting written in shapes from Google Earth [|Google Art Project] - walk through the major museums and art galleries of the world - virtually. Build your own album [|StrataLogica]powered by Google Maps - maps, charts, atlases and data to produce interactive visualisations Click Here.

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