Google_Earth-General_Resources

Google Earth Resources and Tutorials  Get Google Earth here.

Google Earth User Guide (v5)

Learn more about how to do things in Google Earth with video tours from Google.

[|Google Earth Gallery] - pre-created GE files - get some great ideas

Google Earth Community Discussion [|Forum]

The Networked Learner - scroll down screencasts and powerpoint related to Google Earth

[|Getting Google Earth Pro is free for Educators and Non-profits (includes info on Maps too)] Building Better Balloons- templates for fancier looking balloons

[|Google Earth APIs]

 Google Earth Projects from Educators [|Real World Math]

Google Lit Trips [|Explorer Hall of Fame] – Google Earth and World History  Amazing Race - 8th Grade Social Studies with interviews
 * Project Description

 A compilation of Google Earth Lessons

Instructional Uses for Google Earth

24 Interesting Ways to Use Google Earth in the Classroom

Various, well organized, project from the Networked Learner - Thomas Cooper  Karen Ditzler's Google Earth Resource Page [|Google Tools] - slideshow with ideas for using GE in science and math (plus other GE info)
 * Clean Watersheds Project
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Expedition Lit Trips
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Land of Hope
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Our Lost Children

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> <span class="wiki_link_ext">Google Earth is our Paper - " **This is a series of posts about the use of Google Earth as a platform for my students to write."** It includes:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Find a location, Begin a Journey] - very creative way to have students build stories. Note that author uses a classroom set of laptops, but I feel this could be done as a group with one computer and a projector.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Add Your Voice] - If you want a voice recording in each placemarker, use these directions. It is not necessary, however, to use third party software to add naration to a tour. Google Earth version 5 allows you to do this.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Consolidate and Empower] - Excellent run down of possible issues. Saving may be easier now than when this was written.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Improve the Story]-
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|A Week in Review] - A review of benefits and challenges from the experience of using Google Earth with storytelling.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Google Historical Voyages and Events (this is not limited to Google Earth)]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 154%;">Fun with Google Earth

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Monster Milktruck - this is just fun:-)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Drive Your Car in Google Earth - same as Monster Milktruck, but with a choice of cars and comments in Spanish