Education 2.0 & 3.0

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Looking for a little old timey computer nostalgia with a dose of espionage and a taste of geographical flavor?

Well, gumshoe, you are ready for your next assignment from the ACME detective agency. This time Carmen Sandiego is sneaking around the world via Google Earth.

The Crown Jewels Caper is the first of a series of new Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego? games being developed by Google Earth in partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Yup, you still fly around in chase, question local witnesses, and, of course, respond to questions about geography, history and culture as you gather intel about Carmen’s location. But this time you get the way-better-than-DOS ability to zoom in and explore the sites. Coming soon are The Tutankhamun’s Mask and The Keys to the Kremlin capers.

Via John Evans

GE Teach Tour is a free tool that you and your students can use to create tours to play in the new web version of Google Earth. To get started head to geteach.com/tour/ then enter a title for your tour. The next step is to give your first placemark a title and to enter a description of the location you're featuring with that placemark. To place your placemarks in your tour you can either manually enter latitude and longitude coordinates or you can click on the map to insert your placemarks. Finally, to add images to your placemarks you will have to link to publicly available images that are in your Google Drive account or on another image hosting service like Flickr (by the way, linking to images found on sites that prevent hotlinking won't work).

Via John Evans

Como podemos utilizar Google Earth Pro para crear videos sobre viajes impresionantes https://maps.googleblog.com/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.html

Via Gumersindo Fernández

Free Technology for Teachers

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Google Earth ha introducido funciones nuevas que permiten crear mapas personalizados e historias empleando los gráficos disponibles en esta app de geografía.

Via Gumersindo Fernández

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Beginning today, we’re bringing live content to Google Earth’s storytelling platform, Voyager. In a story by Explore.org you can journey into Katmai National Park — watch the hungry bears dine out at Brooks Falls or salmon darting towards the underwater livecam.
Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Google Earth is the most photorealistic, digital version of our planet. But how?! Where do the images come from? How are they they put together? And how often are they updated? In this video, learn about the pixels, planes, and people that create Google Earth’s 3D imagery.

Via Gumersindo Fernández

Kastalia Medrano

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

"Google Earth can be used for all kinds of lessons in math (see Real World Math ), science (try these resources ), and language arts  ...."

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Via Leona Ungerer, Juergen Wagner