Google Earth: Finding and Creating Trips Around the World

Julia Davis, judavis@richlandone.org

SCASL 2009- Greenville, SC

Here you will find links to sites that were mentioned in my presentation and links to sites that will be helpful in your Google Earth exploration!

Download

Downloading Google Earth http://earth.google.com/index.html

Using Google Earth

Google Earth User Guide http://earth.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=17090

          Using and Creating Tours

          Navigating the Ocean

          Creating Places- Making Placemarks and Points of Interest

          Using Places- Organizing, Renaming, and Saving Your Data

          Importing your Data into Google Earth

          Sharing Your Place Data with Others

Video Tutorials http://www.youtube.com/GoogleEarthVideoHelp

Additional Resources

KMZ files Used in Today's Presentation

     Google Earth for Schools- North Canton City Schools  http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~hck/cgi-bin/frame.pl?page=files_page.pl&id=googleearth

     Global Volcanism Program- http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/globallists.cfm?listpage=googleearth

     The Gombe Chimpanzee Blog- http://www.janegoodall.org/gombe-chimp-blog/

     Google Lat Long Blog http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/02/putting-google-earth-to-test.html

     Tut's Tomb- http://earth.google.com/outreach/kml_entry.html#tTutankhamun%27s%20Tomb

     Non-Profit Case Studies http://earth.google.com/outreach/case_studies.html

How Can I Find KMZ files online?

     Google Earth Community http://bbs.keyhole.com

     Google Lit Trips http://googlelittrips.com/

Helpful Sites

     Google Earth Hacks http://www.gearthhacks.com/

     Google Earth Education Community http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/dherring/ge/googleearth.htm

     Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualize04/tool_examples/google_earth.html

     Google Earth Blog http://gearthblog.com/

     Google Sight Seeing http://googlesightseeing.com/

     Juicy Geography http://juicygeography.co.uk/googleearth.htm

     Google Earth Lessons http://gelessons.com/