Mar 162006
Following a suggestion from a colleague, I’ve made a couple of visual guides for Google Earth. They are in Word format, and therefore easily editable. I have designed them to be printed off, and then laminated back to back, to form a Google Earth mousemat.
There is a simple help sheet for beginners or primary children.
A more advanced guide covers the creation and editing of placemarks, as well as some of the simple tools and settings that students may not be familiar with.
Download advanced sheet
The help sheets may be useful for my Google Earth based lessons.
9 Responses to “Google Earth visual guide”
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What a great idea – this will be really handy for our library.
Kepp up the great work
Ollie
Inspired, Noel. Absolutely inspired.
This will be great as a reference for teachers and students alike. Great work!
Simple, effective, and very well organised !
What was that sound ? Oh it was me ripping off your idea…
Regards
Alan
Nice and helpful contribution Noel!
I have translated both Guides to Spanish (“GUIAS”). You can find them on the right handside column of my recently created Blog “Geomatica Educativa”.
Thanks for your excellent postings full of ideas. I’ll try to follow your path.
Jordi
These are very nice. One correction:
Advanced guide,
Step 1 of 7 steps to create placemarks points at the rotate icon instead of the add/create placemark icon to its left.
Thanks Penguin Opus. I think that box had been accidently moved during a slight cosmetic revision and I’ve fixed it now!
Hi Noel and everyone else who’s posted:
I’m curious — are all of you teachers or librarians who use Google Earth to create teaching tools to students? Do you know if there are a lot of teachers who use Google’s products (Gmail, Blogger, Google Groups, etc) in the classroom or in the lab? Do you think there’s a need to have a virtual community center where teachers can exchange ideas or even little programs that they’ve developed re: usin Google as a teaching tool?
I’d love to hear if any of you has done something innovative with Google in the classroom (or lab!), and if you have any ideas about how to optimize Google as a teaching resource.
Thanks,
- F -
hi Noelm
Ur idea was really great and it is of immense help for students
-Avi
Thanks, the work sheets are excellent.