Week #11: Google Earth Tour

Google Earth allows one to view the world up-close and personal without leaving your chair. Your students can take tours you develop, but better yet, develop their own tours to share with each other, to meet learning objectives in a variety of content areas.

To demonstrate your learning of the software this spring, your tour should include:

• University of Montana in 3D
• Your home or hometown, zoomed in view welcomed
• A country that you've been to or want to visit, zoomed in view
• Earthquake location
• A traffic jam
• The best subway route from Brooklyn to Queens
• A volcano
• A before and after of the Fukushima Nuclear PowerPlant meltdown
• A vacation spot you've been to or would like to visit
• The most interesting layer you can find

To add a photo to a placemark, the pushpin, first be sure you have the URL for the photo ready. Then, you can edit the properties of the placemark with the html code as shown in the brief video clip: http://www.extension.org/pages/9681/how-to-geotag-and-display-pictures-in-google-earth

Some other tutorials:
Using Tours
Streetview tutorial
Recording a tour
Tour examples
Layers and such

Be sure to save as a .kmz file that you keep, as the computer you use to construct it may be erased. (see creating and saving a tour tutorial for saving the file on your flash drive).

These projects will be due in class on April 22 beginning at 5 PM.

Week #10: Spring Break - Enjoy!