Spotlight

Image by plemeljr via Flickr

Jason Heiser - He created the GE tour and assigns kids to read the information on the tour and "Identify the 3 most important battles in the Pacific by reading the info in the tour."

http://peteandcpreso.wikispaces.com/

You can import video, audio and Glogster files into a google earth placemark. He used the 5 themes of geography as a topic. Link for this HERE.

Students become responsible for their own learning but the teacher creates the content. Flash, video, audio photo, or text can b used. He has his web page and rubrics in placemarks for students to access.

Fly to: simple starting point for students to fly a tour. Readtheword.com will take your text and make an audio file so you can embed it into their wiki. Use the directions on the wiki.

Activating Layers: This is where you add content. You can use youtube.com, Epressr.com, slideshare.com, scribd, Voki

Have students create history tours - students can create their own icons to mark the battles and who won

Jog the web - Jason's collection of Google Earth sites including student projects.

The following is a re-post from Jim Gates Tipline:

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/1231228

If you’re a science teacher, or if you KNOW a science teacher, then send them to that post. It will direct you to download this file: http://adn.agi.com/SatelliteDatabase/SatelliteDatabase.kmz

You MUST see this. Give it time to load. It loads a database that will plot the position of every known bit of space debris and satellites, both active and inactive. You won’t believe how crowded our skies are.

Then, click on an icon of a satellite and it will bring up the information about it – including whether or not it’s active. It could be just a dead hunk of metal floating around up there.

Did you read about how the space station had to side-step some space junk? Take a look at this AMAZING overlay on Google Earth and you’ll know WHY.

Each month GoogleEarth Sightseer newsletter is produced to include the new enhancements to the program. This month you can find information and links to geothermal energy, melting arctic ice, links for September dates, and some GE plugins. If you are remotely interested in using GE, you should subscribe to this newsletter at the web site. This is always a "where in the world" picture contest. Be the first to identify the image. The geothermal image above is from the newsletter site: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/z0302a1700/sep08.htm.

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Presenter link
Presenters:Pam Leland, Beaverton School District with Kelly Kuntz
Learn to create a place mark and make a tour in GE.

Session filled by 8:15! So I walked over to another session in the hotel next door and.... even though it was in a huge ballroom too, it was filled by 8:25. Lesson earned: get moving earlier than early! Bring something to read or do while you are in a session 30 minutes early waiting for it to begin! Yikes,how many people are here?