Despite being just a couple of days old, Google Earth Library looks set to become an essential blog for news of content rather than placemarks. The editor plans on addidng 70 to 100 posts per week until he has worked through his backlog which means that I won’t be subscribing to the feed just yet!
It’s a collaborative blog with several really useful files already posted. I’m particularly looking forward to the development of the education category and wish topomat all the best in his endeavours!
A really clever idea from Tony Cassidy who shows how to create a PowerPoint slide with multiple live streaming web cams. This would be stunning on an interactive whiteboard and I look forward to creating my own examples and seeing the effect on the kids as they walk into the room!
Tony includes full instructions and an example on his site. Excellent work Comrade!
I haven’t used World Wind for a while because I found the Virtual Earth plugin essential and it didn’t work with the latest release. Thanks to the comments from Bull UK in this post, I have been able to upgrade to version 1.4 and enjoy some of the new features which include the 3D connexion plugin for my Space Navigator, the Virtual Earth plugin and lots of other enhancements which make the program even nicer to use.
World Wind home page
I was interested in testing the Global Flood plugin for World Wind and am pleased to say that it worked very well, though not at the zoom level required for the lesson I describe here. When zooming in to street level the flood layer fills the screen regardless of the elevation of the terrain and the Google Earth option works rather better. However, if the object of the lesson is to look at the impacts of sea level change on a regional scale, then World Wind is an improvement on the Google Earth technique, and the level of flooding can be controlled by a simple slider. Observe the “flood of blood” invading the Gold Coast!
Click to enlarge Global Flood plugin in WorldWind
I’ve completed a new Google Earth based lesson which is part of a sequence of activities on surfing and climate change that will be announced later in the year. I’d like to get some feedback on this one though.
The case study is based on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia
source: Wikipedia
The lesson gets students to create maps of sea level change which are then used to assess the likely impact on the region.
The lesson plan can be found at Juicy Geography: Modelling Sea Level Change
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