Google Earth

[Margaret Allen]

http://www.teacherbooks.co.uk/article_info.php?articles_id=17

Just came across this..... [clap]

[daverosthorn]

Haha yes I've used that at home. It's awesome for viewing things in the States (the Grand Canyon, etc) but not brilliant at viewing things up here in NW England. YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE PROMETHEAN HQ!!! Haha.

Jokes aside, Google Earth is ace.

[Margaret Allen]

Some more supportive links for Google Earth use....


With Thanks to John Pearce from Becta Topteachers who posted this recently.


Juicy Geography at http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/googleearth.htm (http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/googleearth.htm)# (this
is a great site with lots of links to all things Google Earth),
Google Earth Blog at http://www.gearthblog.com/ (http://www.gearthblog.com/) (a blog dedicaated to all
things Google Earth)
Google Earth at http://www.geographypages.co.uk/googleearth.htm (http://www.geographypages.co.uk/googleearth.htm) (another UK
site specifically for Geography teachers)
and Using Googel Earth in the Classroom at
http://www.mrbelshaw.co.uk/teaching/2006/01/13/using-google-earth-in-the-classroom/ (http://www.mrbelshaw.co.uk/teaching/2006/01/13/using-google-earth-in-the-classroom/)
(a blog page that has a few nice how to's)

As to why some images are more blurry than others, the following from the
Google Earth community site at
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/68845/an/0/page/0 (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/68845/an/0/page/0)
gives some reasons. (Apparently a couple of other hi-res satellites are
coming online which will ultimately provide greater hi-res coverage and
better images all round.)

The whole world is covered with medium resolution imagery and terrain data.
This resolution allows you to see major geographic features and man-made
development such as towns, but not detail of individual buildings.
Additional high-resolution imagery which reveals detail for individual
buildings is available for most of the major cities in the US, Western
Europe, Canada, and the UK. 3D buildings are represented in 38 US cities
(the major urban areas). Detailed road maps are available for the US,
Canada, the UK, and Western Europe. And Google Local search is available for
the US, Canada, and the UK.

[daverosthorn]

I've just been messing around on http://maps.google.co.uk and it's LOADS better than google earth. Blackburn wasn't great quality on google earth but when you zoom in on google maps, you can see LOADS.

Promethean Blackburn: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=BB1+5TH&ll=53.766534,-2.450402&spn=0.003044,0.013561&t=h

Training 2000: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=bb1+3bd&ll=53.75116,-2.460669&spn=0.001523,0.006781&t=h

Big Ben: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=big+ben&ll=51.500622,-0.124283&spn=0.000801,0.00339&t=h

The Eiffel Tower: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=eiffel+tower&ll=48.858108,2.294458&spn=0.001694,0.006781&t=h

[Jon' Allen]

Wish the Promethean car park was that empty whenever I call up to B'burn - presume it was a Sunday satellite.

[Danny Nicholson]

Google Mars is pretty cool too

http://www.google.com/mars/

Danny

[AirSkeeter]

Danny,

I see Peters birthplace on that google mars map.....

[daverosthorn]

Google Mars won't work for me :(

[Jon' Allen]

Didn't for me either - until I changed the map scale slider - bingo - life on Mars

[angie]

try:
http://moon.google.com/
..and take the slider right in close (thanks to Danny for this one!)

[Alison]

Can't use Google Earth :o( I work in a Primary and I've banned all search engines due to, erm, shall we say unsuitable sites and images! I tried just allowing earth.google sites but it has to talk to the google network, so won't work. Such a shame! Especially as the images of our school are fascinating! They're about 6 years old, or more, so they show our school pre-fire!! It's amazing to show the children how it's changed and overlay an image of what the new school will look like. Just love that feature on AP where you can fade out/in an image on top of another one. The children STILL think it's magic every time! :o)

[Jon' Allen]

Excellent - more cheese Grommet?

[escandonr]

http://www.teacherbooks.co.uk/article_info.php?articles_id=17

Just came across this..... [clap]
Hi All!
I'm at Cal Berkeley in Oakland, CA, USA for a Discovery Educator Institute. We are putting together a project and was hoping that one of you could help with it. We need to calloborate with someone outside of the USA, our project is on the butterfly life cycle. Do any of you have something you'd like to share with us? Thank you in advance for your support.

Rosy

[markrobinson]

Most suppliers of internet for services for school usually offer some form of filtering - sometimes called a 'proxy server'.

There are some great kid friendly search engines which combined with a secure service provide excellent ways of accessing the internet.

www.yahooligans.com (http://www.yahooligans.com) - is kid safe search engine as is www.ajkids.com (http://www.ajkids.com)

I would not let kids use Google to search in a primary school for two reasons - not only for the unsuitability - but for the fact that the bulk of results returned these days are usually marketing and adverts from their subscribing companies and the kids might not spot it.

I would say that Google Maps has much going for it... esp. since you can create your own annotations and comments using the Activboard using the "My Maps feature"... More info here..

http://activeducator.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/google-maps-and-activboards/

[DBarnwell]

Hello, Allison. Out of curiosity, do you have Activstudio installed on a home machine? I'd imagine you could use the camera tool at another machine that can access the site to take pictures of the school on Google Earth, save the images to a resource library or flipchart, then transfer the .as2 or .flp files, respectively, to the computer you'll be teaching from.

Hello, Rosy, and welcome to the forum. I'm afraid I'm from the US, and my knowledge of the butterfly life cycle is probably dwarfed by your students, so unfortunately I probably won't be of much assistance. That being said, you might be well off to post this in its own thread- it'll be a bit more visible that way and you may get more responses.

[Alison]

Hi Daniel,

I have AP installed on my laptop, so I took photos on that one. I think originally when I first posted that I allowed google just for that lesson, but then did what you said after. We phased old to new pictures on a flipchart and then recorded a commentary for our website.