With the release of version 4 of Google Earth my mouse mats (see previous post) required upgrading. I’ve created a couple more visual guides for the latest version. They are a little simpler; I’ve focussed on the main functions that I need my own students to be able to accomplish quickly. These include searching for places, basic navigation, turning placemarks and layers on and off and playing tours. I also need them to be able to create and describe placemarks, vital for some of the Google Earth lessons that I’ve written.
As before, the visual guides are in Word format, the idea is to print them off and laminate them back to back.
Guide to simple navigation:
Click the image to open in Word
Guide to creating a placemark:
Click the image to open in Word
Update 21/8/06
Hello readers of Google Earth Blog!
My Google Earth page for teachers is located here at Juicy Geography.
Lessons, classroom tips, downloads and other stuff.
Thank you for doing this. I liked your GE3 ones as well. Two comments:
1) At least the first one doesn’t seem to layout well in OpenOffice. Most of the pointers end up pointing to the wrong things. This is probably because OO is lame, but if you could easily make it work there, that might help some folks.
2) Play tour: The ui is non-obvious. Here is my explanation. There are 3 kinds of tours, depending on what item is selected when you hit the “>” button.
If a checked item is selected, a “old-style” tour of all checked items in My Places will happen.
If a folder is selected, all items in the folder are toured, whether they are checked or not. Useful when you want to do a tour, but don’t want the icons turned on.
If a line/path is selected (eg: by default after doing a driving directions), the line (and only the line) is played in a smooth manner.