Transcript Title

Finally, Staggeringly Good Things
Mixing Google Earth and Media
Hall Davidson
Director, Discovery Educator Network
[email protected]
Google Confidential and Proprietary
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Table of Contents
Slide 3
Wesites used in the presentation
Slide 6
Quick Start User Guide
Slide 7
Placemarks (adding Video and Audio)
Slide 12
Image Overlays
Slide 13
Quizzes and Assignments (unitedstreaming)
Slide 15
Flyovers and Saving
Slide 16
Ruler
Slide 17
Preferences (Touring, 3D)
Slide 19
Layers
Slide 22
Communities
Slide 23
Businesses
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Screen Capturing Google Earth
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Additional Resources & Websites
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Communities from Cindy Lane
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Websites used in
Presentation
This ppt. represents
the work of Lance
Rougeux, Jannita
Demian, and others
from the DEN, each of
whom do great Google
Earth presentations!
www.earth.google.com
http://www.unitedstreaming.com
http://www.discoveryeducatornetwork.com/
www.google.com/educators
http://findsounds.com/
http://tinyurl.com/
Handouts at www.tinyURL.com/2x8n4b
http://discoveryeducation.typepad.com/media_matters/
Discoveryeducatornetwork.com (media matters blog)
http://halldavidson.org/
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Websites used in
Presentation
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Discovery Education unitedstreaming
is a digital video-based learning
resource that provides on-demand
access to 50,000 content-specific
segments from 5,000 full-length
educational videos. Today, educators
at more than half the schools across
the United States use
unitedstreaming to integrate vibrant
digital content into the curricula of
more than 30 million students.
www.unitedstreaming.com
Free Resources
Google Earth combines satellite
imagery, maps and the power of
Google Search to put the world's
geographic information at your
fingertips. View exotic locales like
Maui and Paris as well as points of
interest such as local restaurants,
hospitals, schools, and more.
http://earth.google.com/
•Archive.org
•CreativeCommons.org
•Librivox.org
•….many more
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Google Earth Quick Start User Guide
1.
Search Panel- Use to find places and
directions
2.
Overview Map- Use for an additional
perspective
3.
Hide/Show sidebar- Click to conceal or
display side bar
4.
Placemark- Click to add a placemark
5.
Polygon- Click to add a polygon
6.
Path- Click to add a path
7.
Image Overlay- Click to add an image
8.
Measure- Click to measure distance
9.
Email- Click to email view or image
10.
Print- Click to print current view
11.
Navigation Controls- Use to tilt, zoom and
move
12.
Layers Panel- Use to display points of
interests
13.
Places Panel- Use to locate, save, and
organize placemarks
14.
3D Viewer- View the globe and terrain
15.
Status Bar- View streaming
status 2007
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Adding Placemarks
First Things First
•
Create a Folder
(Ctrl+Shift+N)
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This will help us keep
our placemarks
organized.
Other
20%
Network
80%
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Adding Placemarks
2. Add Placemark (Ctrl+Shift+P)
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To change the placemark
icon, click the icon to the
right of the placemark
name.
•
To include a description
type in the white box.
Other
20%
Network
80%
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Adding Placemarks to play video
Adding Sounds or Video from
free sites
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1.
Find media online
2.
Click to Stream.
3.
As it streams Right Click,
then click properties, and
copy location.
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4.
Paste in Google Earth
Placemark Description box.
Adding Video from fee sites
(unitedstreaming)
a.
Right Click on play icon
b.
Copy short cut.
c.
Paste in Placemark Description
box.
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4/c
http://www.archive.org/video/28786/prg
28786_256k.asf
http://www.archive.org/video/28786/prg28786_
256k.asf
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Adding Placemarks to play audio
Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts
1.
Find media, stories, sounds, etc., online
2.
Click to Stream.
3.
As it streams Right Click screen, then click
properties, and copy location. Or, if the URL is
available, copy the location from the browser.
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Adding Placemarks to play audio
Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts
4.
Copy location from Properties window or from the
web address line in the browser (e.g., Explorer)
5.
Paste in Google Earth Placemark Description box.
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Adding Image Overlays
There are two kinds Image Overlays:
From the Web - works anywhere in
the world
From your hard drive - works only
on your computer
•
To add an Image Overlay
press (Ctrl+Shift+O) or from
the menu bar click “Add”
then “Image Overlay”
•
Web - Right Click on web
image, then click properties
and copy and paste
address. (Note: Make sure
you get all correlating lines
of the address)
•
Hard Drive - Browse to the
folder with images. (Note:
Don’t move them later!)
•
Adjust green box to desired
image size
•
Paste image address in the
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link box
Other
20%
80%
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Look for Quizzes or Assignments on the web start with google.com/educators
Geography Awareness Quiz
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Add Quizzes or Assignments -in unitedstreaming
• In addition to videos, you can also add quizzes and
assignments to your placemark
•
To find quizzes or assignments go to unitedstreaming’s
Quiz and Assignment Builder located in the Teacher Center.
• Now you can create your own or search
•If you search, simply
copy the quiz or
assignment into your
folder in My Content
• Go to My Content and open
the quiz. It will open the Quiz
Summary and you can simply
copy the URL
Return to Google Earth and open the Properties box of
your placemark
Type some text in the Description box and paste your
url.
Now, when you click on the placemark icon your text will
appear with the link to the quiz or assignment
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Fly Over and Saving
Other
20%
•
When you are ready to save your file.
Highlight your folder, then click on “File”
“Save” “Save Place as…”
•
This will save it as a .kmz. This small file
can easily be emailed.
•
When someone opens the .kmz file,
Google Earth will automatically be
launched or users will be encouraged to
download the program.
Network
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To fly over all your place marks click,
highlight your folder and click the play
button.
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Ruler
Other
20%
•
To find out distance
traveled, from the menu bar
select “Tools” then “Ruler”
•
By clicking different points
with your mouse you can
create a line or a path.
•
To convert units of measure
select from the drop down
menu.
Network
80%
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Preferences: Touring
•
You can control
the flying speed
•
You can control
or eliminate
pauses
•
You can repeat
the tours (for
Open House) or
reinforcement
Other
20%
You can open
information
balloons on tours
NetworkControl Driving Tours here
80%
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Preferences: 3D View and others
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Layers: Turning them on or off
Layers: Featured Content
Discovery Video
layer has free
video!
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Layers: 3D Buildings
Other
•
To turn on 3D buildings, go
down to the “Layers”
menu and check “3D
Buildings”
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For added fun, zoom in, tilt
your screen and fly through
the streets
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Network
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Layers: Earthquakes
•
In the “Layer” menu under
“Geographic Features” is a
check box for
“Earthquakes”
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When you enable this icon,
images will be displayed of
the locations of a variety of
earthquakes. Click on Other
the
icon to see date,
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magnitude, and a weblink.
•
To view several
earthquakes along a fault
line type in “Area 51” inNetwork
the
fly to box.
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Community
For extra help, support, and unique and interesting
places, visit the Google Earth Community under the
“Help” menu.
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Find Businesses
•
To look for
businesses (i.e.
Starbucks, Pizza
Parlors) in a
particular location,
type in the name of
the company, city or
zip code and enter.
•
You will be able to
find reviews,
addresses, phone
numbers, and even
get directions.
Network
80%
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You Don’t Have to be Live!
Network
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You can use a screen capture
program to record the tours and
features in Google Earth. The
high end versions of Google
Earth work well (but take LOTS of
RAM). You can use screen
capture software to record the
action in Google Earth and save it
as a video file.
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Windows - SnagIt
Techsmith.com
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Mac - Snapz Pro
Softward
Ambrosia
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QuickTime file of GoogleEarth tour.
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You Don’t Have to be Live!
Network
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Launch Google Earth.
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Launch the screen capture
program. (Snapz Pro shown on
Mac)
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Choose Movie option.
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Draw movie window over section
of screen to capture.
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Start the movie capture. Do what
you want in Google Earth. Stop
the capture when done. That’s it!
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Bonus: Pull into a video
authoring program and take out
pauses, speed up or slow down
video action, and add music or
narrative. Try iMovie (Mac),
Adobe Premiere Elements (PC)
or MovieMaker (wmv files)
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Additional Resources
In addition to the great resources provided by unitedstreaming and Google, these other
resources are exemplary media sites.
Sounds & Sound Effects
Speeches and Narrations
http://www.findsounds.com/
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/
http://www.smartsound.com/
http://www.naturesongs.com/
http://www.archive.org/index.php
http://soundamerica.com/
www.librivox.org
Videos
www.gutenberg.org
http://www.kitzu.org/
http://creativecommons.org/audio/
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Let’s share other sources you use?
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
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Pictures
www.pics4learnin g.com
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Others
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http://tinyurl.com/
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