Used in November 2011

1. Customising Google
Earth Placemarks
Alan Parkinson
November 2011
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2. Over 1 BILLION downloads

3. 2005
First saw Google Earth
Got in touch with Google and blagged a copy of Google Pro
Applied for Innovative Geography Teaching Grant from RGS-
IBG
Developed ‘Earth: a Users Guide’
Led a session at SAGT Conference to over 100 delegates
Used in teaching
Wrote article for ‘The Guardian’ on using it at start of lesson
Keyhole Bulletin Board started to grow and share ideas…
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4. http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/index.php
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5. Google Outreach
Google Teacher Academy
Google Schools Resources
Have tended to be versions of US-based materials
and not very innovative.
This is slowly changing….
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6. Climate Change Tours
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7. Placemarks
In map view
Look for the icon
Yellow pushpin
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11. CUSTOM ICON
Image of school
Image of teacher
Image of person
ICON from other location ?
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12. http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/
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13. EDITING PROPERTIES
Right click on a placemark
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14. PLACEMARK
HTML Coding
Knowing a few key tags will help
Tags end with < > and finish with </ >
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15. TEXT
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16. IMAGES
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17. GRAPHS
Create
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18. VIDEOS
All you need is the EMBED code from your
particular video sharing website…
Check which ones might be usable in school.
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19. AUDIO
http://www.vocaroo.com
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20. Using Google Earth
Catlin Arctic Survey
http://oceans.digitalexplorer.com
New KS3 Geography Pack
ready to download
GCSE Geography Pack
coming soon
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21. GeoTrio – record your own audio
tours of a location and make them
available…
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