Extreme_Google_Earth

=Extreme Google Earth = Jason Heiser Hank Wajda

Don’t be scared by the title of this session we are going to look at how EXTREMELY USEFUL and EXTREMELY POWERFUL a Google earth tour can be for engaging students... Learn how to turn a basic tour (new or old) into a self-guided, interactive learning experience which can be used to foster higher order and critical thinking, yet lending itself to facilitation rather than presentation. As a side bar I will be emphasizing high tech and low tech classroom applications for using a Google Earth tour. Lastly, participants will begin the process of creating their own tour for use in their classroom using a presenter created outline as a guide in the process.

In this session, we are going to look at how EXTREMELY USEFUL and EXTREMELY POWERFUL a Google Earth Tour can be for engaging students and promoting critical thinking. Participants will have the opportunity to use a current tour or create a new one that is self-guided, challenging, and interactive.

Goals:
Participants will be able to:

1. Create a Google Earth tour (basic and lay ground work for interactive media) 2. Create relevant high tech and low tech examples which promote higher order thinking

Content of Session:
- Links to Marzano - High tech and low tech applications to Google Earth - Facilitating a lesson using Google Earth - Assignment on using Google Earth - Alternatives to Google Earth if bandwidth is an issue - Wrap-up

Resources:
[|Google Earth Download] - site where you can find the latest software for Google Earth. [|Jog] - Jog for Google Earth/Maps and other related tools.

Tours:

- Tour put together to give students a mental image for the 5 themes of Geography. - High tech example of a tour. Use this one to help illustrate and explain Island Hopping. - Visual Tour created with KML from worldfactbook.org. This one works well in a low tech environment. - Want to spice things up in your Google Earth Tour. Here is templates from Google for doing just that.... - View the source code for other html options

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