On Monday I shared a post titled Walking in Holden's Footsteps. In that post I mentioned that having students create Google Earth tours based on a character or storyline in a book is a good way to break-away from the typical book report assignment. One of the first steps in creating a Google Earth tour is to create placemarks. If you're considering having your students create a Google Earth tour, the following video is a good introduction to creating placemarks in Google Earth.
Each placemark icon be customized and can include text, images, and videos. The video below shows you how to select placemark icons and how to embed a video into a placemark.
This video from one of my fellow Maine educators and Google Certified Teacher Sarah Sutter shows you how to put pictures into your placemarks.
And after you've created all of the placemarks for your Google Earth tour, follow the directions in this video for recording a narrated tour.
For more information about Google Earth, you may want to read Google Earth Across the Curriculum.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
How to Make Placemarks and Tours in Google Earth
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7 comments:
Thank you so much. I will now have a go! It was cool to see you use Uluru (Ayers Rock). I really appreciate all the amazing assistance and ideas I gain from following your work. Cheers, Glenys
this is very educational. I think sometimes as teachers we3 try to stick to the "old ways" but this is a great NEW WAY to teach our students about the earth. I am nothing but impressed.
WOW! Am the only one that didn't know you could narrate a tour? How awesome! This is something that willing teachers can integrate into the curriculum. Thank you for sharing.
This is MUCH appreciated. I've played around with Google Earth but haven't been able to take advantage of it for my Geography class as much as I'd like.
Great Post! Jerome Burg, from http://googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html has already some great work with Google Earth.
Here from Portugal I'v contrubuted with my project: http://viagensliterarias.wordpress.com
I'm glad to see that this post is helping some of you venture into Google Earth. As Teresa pointed out, Jerome Burg is doing some great stuff with Google Lit Trips. I had the privilege of learning directly from Jerome at the Google Teacher Academy.
Richard -
Thanks for posting the tutorial. I've been doing historical tours of with my photography class. Each student shares the biography and photographic work of their artist tied to the geographic location of the work. It's been great to have the geo-reference for many of the photographs. For a basic example, viewing Yosemite Valley on Google Earth and re-creating the view of an Ansel Adams shot of Half Dome or Bridal Veil Falls sparks discussion on a number of levels.
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