1. Multimedia Geography
Through Google Earth
Paul Cornish, Head of Geography
The Coopers’ Company and Coborn School
pch@cooperscoborn.co.uk
cornishpaul@hotmail.co.uk

5. A window, through
which students can
explore the world
through geo-located
video, photography
and audio.

6. Examples
• Amazon Suri Tribe Tour
• World Cup 2010
• Biomes (Multimedia Toolkit)
• Walton on the Naze Fieldwork
• London Olympics (Multimedia Toolkit)
• Madagascar Rosewood Enquiry

7. Embedding Photos into GE
From Flickr.com (photo sharing website):
1. In GE, create a place mark
2. Find the photo you want
to use and click ‘Share’
3. Copy the HTML code
4. Paste into the place mark
5. Name the place mark
accordingly and add text
6. Snapshot view

8. Embedding Videos into GE
From Youtube or Vimeo (video sharing websites):
1. In GE, create a place mark
2. Find the video you want
to use and click ‘Share’
and then ‘embed’
3. Copy the HTML code
4. Paste into the place mark
5. Name the place mark
accordingly and add text
6. Snapshot view

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10. Embedding Audio into GE
From Audioboo.fm (audio sharing website):
1. Use the Audioboo website to search for audio or
create your own using the iPhone app.
2. In GE, create a place mark
3. Find the audio and
click ‘embed’
4. Click ‘more options’
and choose ‘if all else fails’
5. Copy the HTML code
6. Paste into the place mark
7. Name the place mark accordingly
and add text
8. Snapshot view

11. Other Embedding Options
• www.slideshare.net (ppt & word)
• www.360cities.net (panoroamas)
• Google docs (files)
• Hotmail Skydrive (files)
• www.bbc.co.uk (some videos)
• www.scribd.com (ppt & word)
+ many other news websites

12. Snapshot View
A snapshot view enables
Google Earth to zoom into
a pre-chosen angle to show
video, photo or audio files
1. Choose the angle and
altitude for your place mark
2. Either right click on the file
in the ‘places menu’ or right
click on the place mark
3. Click ‘snapshot view’

13. Rosewood Logging Investigation
• Geographical Enquiry based on the recent
BBC Natural World programme.
• Investigating the links between Rosewood
deforestation in Madagascar’s National
Parks, China and Gibson Guitars, USA.
• Geo-located photos, video, audio and
documents.

14. Rosewood Logging Investigation
How can Google Earth provide improved
geographical knowledge:
– Core (the geography found in an Atlas)
– Content (Concepts)
– Procedural (Enquiry and investigation)
compared with existing paper based
resources?

15. Application
• Case studies
• Fieldwork preparation/ follow up
• Virtual fieldwork
• Geographical Enquiry
• Comparing places

16. Multimedia Geography
Through Google Earth
Paul Cornish, Head of Geography
The Coopers’ Company and Coborn School
pch@cooperscoborn.co.uk
cornishpaul@hotmail.co.uk