Transcript Finally, Staggeringly Good Things Mixing Google Earth and Media Hall Davidson Director, Discovery Educator Network [email protected] Hall Davidson, 2008

Finally, Staggeringly Good
Things Mixing Google Earth
and Media
Hall Davidson
Director, Discovery Educator Network
[email protected]
Hall Davidson, 2008
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Finally, Staggeringly Good
Things Mixing Google Earth
and Media
Hall Davidson
Director, Discovery Educator Network
[email protected]
Jerome Burg
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Part 1
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Handouts are online here:
handouts
http://DiscoveryEdSpeakersBureau.com
Click on the face, then on
concurrent sessions, then
on Z Appendix
Z Appendix for
handouts.
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Bonus Feature for Listening
For Free Google Earth Pro license (for educators)
[email protected]
You will be sent a qualifying
questionnaire.
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http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html
Deep collaboration
between Google and
Discovery
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http://www.googlelittrips.org/
•GPB’s Discovery Education
unitedstreaming is a digital video-based
learning resource that provides ondemand access to 70,000 contentspecific 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.
Other 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
•Npr.org….many more
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Search panel - Use this to find places and directions and
manage search results. Google Earth EC may display
additional tabs here.
Overview map - Use this for an additional perspective of
the Earth.
Hide/Show sidebar - Click this to conceal or the display
the side bar (Search, Places and Layers panels).
Placemark - Click this to add a placemark for a location.
Polygon - Click this to add a polygon.
Path - Click this to add a path (line or lines).
Image Overlay - Click this to add an image overlay on the
Earth.
Measure - Click this to measure a distance or area size.
Sun - Click this to display sunlight across the landscape.
Sky - Click this to view stars, constellations, galaxies,
planets and the Earth's moon.
Email - Click this to email a view or image.
Print - Click this to print the current view of the Earth.
Show in Google Maps - Click this to show the current
view in Google Maps in your web browser.
Navigation controls - Use these to zoom, look and move
around (see below).
Layers panel - Use this to display points of interest.
Places panel - Use this to locate, save, organize and
revisit placemarks.
Add Content - Click this to import exciting content from the
KML Gallery
3D Viewer - View the globe and its terrain in this window.
Status bar - View coordinate, elevation, imagery date and
streaming status here.
Google Earth Quick Start User Guide http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/
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Navigation Tools
•Tilt
The Zoom Slider:
•Zoom In
•Zoom Out
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Navigation Tools
•The Move Joystick
•Zoom
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Navigation Tools
Look Joystick
•Tilt Down
for ground level
•Tilt Up
for airplane view
•Spin like a plate
for a spin
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Navigation Tools - some advanced controls
•Try this for
accents
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Navigation Tools
•Hit “N” to return North to the top
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Sidebar
Go ahead, type in
your address.
You’re dying to.
Everyone does it.
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Sidebar
Go ahead, type in
your address.
You’re dying to.
Everyone does it.
No, it is not live.
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Sidebar
The sidebar manages
much of your content in
Google Earth.
Begin with Places
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Sidebar
Lots and lots of
cool things here.
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Lots and lots of cool things here.
Sidebar
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Sidebar
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Sidebar
The sidebar manages much of your
content in Google Earth.
Next in the Sidebar: Layers
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Sidebar
You can control what is displayed
in Layers under View
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Sidebar
Some of the most powerful education
tools in Layers are in Gallery.
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Sidebar
Some of the most powerful education
tools in Layers are in Gallery.
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Sidebar
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Sidebar
Rumsey Historical
Maps is a great place
to begin exploring
Layers
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Sidebar
Contemporary view in Google Earth
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Sidebar
Overlay view with Rumsey Historical Maps
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Sidebar
There are layers with educational videos built-in!
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Sidebar
Click on the Discovery logo for videos about the place.
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Sidebar
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The Discovery logo usually offers a choice of video clips.
Sidebar
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Menu Panel
•Placemark
Route
Image Overlay Ruler
Sky
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Menu Panel: Ruler
Other
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To find out distance
traveled, from the menu bar
select “Tools” then “Ruler”
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By clicking different points
with your mouse you can
create a line or a path.
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A Line measures distance
between two points.
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A Path measures distances
on a path with many points.
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To convert units of measure
select from the drop down
menu.
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A Path is the way to connect Placemarks or
Image Overlays on a Google Lit trip or Google
History Expedition, etc.! Kids or teachers can
build them.
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Menu Panel
•Placemarks
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Menu Panel
•Placemarks
Much more later in Advanced
•Description boxes
•Video
•Webcams
•Text
•pictures
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Adding Placemarks
First Things First
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Create a Folder
(Ctrl+Shift+N)
• This will help us
keep our
placemarks
organized.
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Adding Placemarks
Other
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Network
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Placemark Description Box = Web Page
Other
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Network
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Placemark Description Box = Web Page
Other
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You can change the icon – or customize it!
•Placemarks
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Adding Placemarks to Play Video or Audio
from URL links
Other
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Network
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Adding Placemarks that play video
from URL links - Free sites
Clicking on the
link will launch a
browser that will
play the video
Adding Sounds or Video
from free sites
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Find media online
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Click to Stream.
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As it streams Right
Click, then click
Other
properties, and copy
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Paste in Google Earth
Placemark Description
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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 that play video from URL
links - Discovery Education streaming
Other
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Right Click on green play icon
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In the box that opens, select
Copy Shortcut.
Network
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Paste in the Google Earth
Placemark Description box.
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Clicking on the link
will launch a browser
that will play the video
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Adding Placemarks to play audio
Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts
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Find media, stories, sounds, etc., online
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Click to Stream.
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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
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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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