Educational Uses of Google Earth

It is close to the end of summer in the northern hemisphere. Many kids are heading back to school after a summer break. For those of you who are educators and have thought, or heard, that Google Earth would make a good tool for geography lessons - let me suggest you look closer. Google Earth (GE) is not only a great tool for geography - it has the ability to entice kids to learn about information tied to location in a huge variety of important educational subjects. When you first load GE you have a wealth of information available at your fingertips. Thousands of aerial and satellite photos, dozens of layers of information: city names, country borders, airport locations, photos, road maps, National Geographic content, volcanoes, and more. Since Google Earth is an intuitive and fun tool, I believe you could use it as a visualization and educational tool for almost any subject. Once students prepare their own content, GE can be used to present their work - or even share their work with the world.

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"Unype Facebook application lets Facebook users roam around inside Google Earth and see/interact with each other.

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New Google Earth Has a Hidden Flight Sim :)

First of all you'll have to install the latest version of GE. Once you've started it all up, explored Google Sky a bit, then all you have to do is hit Ctrl+Alt+A (if you're running OS X it's Command+Option+A; some people have reported that Ctrl+A or Ctrl+Windows+A work when the standard Ctrl+Alt+A does not).

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Greece Fires in Google Earth

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/08/greece_fires_in_goog.html

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New Photo Viewer with Gigapixel Layer in Google Earth

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/08/new_photo_viewer_wit.html

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Explore the sky with Google Earth

http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html

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Embed Video In Google Earth 4.2 Placemarks!

One of the most-requested long-awaited features for Google Earth has arrived* with version 4.2 (download the latest GE here): You can now embed YouTube videos in placemark descriptions!

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Real time traffic updates in Google earth

We've had traffic updates available in Google maps for some time, however, the Google Lat/Long blog has informed us that real-time traffic reports are now available for viewing in Google Earth.. nice! Simply enable teh traffic layer and view updates... pretty simple.

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Tutorial - Create a Google MyMap, add your flickr photos from a Mapplet, then embed in your website

http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/12505/

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Humanitarian Issues in Google Earth - Central African Republic

Another humanitarian organization has turned to Google Earth to help visualize conditions in another African country. This time it is the Central African Republic (CAR) which is adjacent to the violent and serious situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. The northern part of CAR also has many related humanitarian issues with refugees, violence, death, displaced people, crime, and sickness.

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Wirecast + Google Earth = DIY weather shows

http://www.varasoftware.com/products/wirecast/

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