Pack Your Bags with Google Earth
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This document discusses how to integrate Google Earth, Discovery Streaming, and literature in the classroom. It provides examples of using multimedia tools like Google Earth to create virtual field trips based on literature. Students can explore settings, characters, and events from stories. The document offers specific strategies for setting up placemarks, adding text, images and links in Google Earth to visualize information from books. It suggests choosing an activity like an Amazing Race and linking locations from a story. The goal is active student engagement through interactive virtual expeditions that combine media, literature and real world geography.
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- 1. Pack Your Bags! Integrating Google Earth, Discovery Streaming, and Literature Cheryl Lykowski March, 2011
- 2. Image from: Doug Johnson
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- 4. Google Lit Trips Meet the creator! Jerome Burg http://googlelittrips.com
- 8. Literary Maps Multimedia + Google Earth _________________ A great classroom
- 9. • Combining literary road trips with the interactive technology and satellite imagery of Google Earth puts your students right in the back seat" of an unfolding journey.
- 10. • Active engagement • “It puts the kids right in the middle of the story rather than at a desk as the teacher teaches the story at them.“ (Jerome Burg)
- 11. • Media, literature, and the earth itself converge here in one of the most exemplary technology integration • Virtual expeditions • Multidimensional learning experience
- 12. Strategies that this multimedia tool support can include: • Cues, questions, and advance organizers • Non-linguistic representation • Cooperative learning • Summarizing and note-taking
- 17. Sounds great! How can I use this in my classroom?
- 18. • Choose a book or story that has a strong sense of place. • A good story for a lit trip doesn't have to involve a long journey.
- 19. • Choose a relevant activity that involves various places. • Amazing Race • Skype Mystery Classes •World Math/Spelling Day •Around the World with 80 Classrooms
- 20. Placemarks Visualize Information • Text • Images • Web Links • Video • Audio • Icons • Slides • Documents • Navigation
- 21. You are only limited by your imagination!
- 22. Still sounds great! How do I do it?
- 23. View the location of a field Google Earth Program Window trip in Google Earth before Tool Bars you actually visit. Search Panel Navigation Tools Zoom Tools Places Panel Layers Panel Coordinates, Elevation
- 24. Creating Folders to Store View the location of a field Searches before trip in Google Earth • Go to the you actually visit. “Places” folder • Right-click on “My Places” icon • Add >> Folder
- 25. ViewSaving Searchesfield the location of a trip in Google Earth before • Click and drag you actually folder you visit. found places into the created • Make sure the folder is checked. • Collapse the folder • Highlight the folder by clicking on it. • Go to File >> Save As >> Save Place As
- 26. Creating Basic Placemarks View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before you actually visit. Directions 1.Find the location on earth you want the placemark. 2.Click on the yellow push pin in the toolbar 3.Name the placemark 4.Enter the text you want to visualize. 5.Press OK.
- 27. Editing Placemarks View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before Directions you actually visit. 1.Right click on the placemark in the Places panel 2.Choose properties from the menu 3.Placemark will open, allowing you to add information. Hint: In order to change the location of a placemark, you need to have the properties box open.
- 28. Adding Text View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before Directions you actually visit. 1.Right click on the placemark 2.Go to properties 3.Type in the text you want 4.Use HTML tags to organize text
- 29. Mediathe location ofOnline View Needs to Be a field trip in Google Earth before • GE uses XHTML you actually visit. to an code to refer image stored online. • Use photosharing sites to store your photos: Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Album, Photobucket, or a Wiki
- 30. View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before you actually visit.
- 31. View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before you actually visit.
- 32. View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before you actually visit.
- 33. View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before you actually visit.
- 34. Let’s play! View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before you actually visit. Image from MommyNature.com
- 35. View the location of a field trip in Contact me: Google Earth before you actually visit. web2.0explorer@gmail.com techconferences.wikispaces.com
- 36. View the location of a field trip in Google Earth before you actually visit. http://discoveryeducation.com/ http://googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html http://www.thenetworkedlearner.com/index.html
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- Are you looking for ways to combine digital literacy skills, research, literature study, geography, reading and writing on the Web? All you need is Google Lit Trips. This tool combines cross-curricular connections, literary exploration, and 21st century skills. \n
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