Google Earth Magic
I am sure many of you are aware of Google Earth. One of my colleagues Paul Meldrum does some wonderful work using this powerful tool.Hall Davidson presented an excellent session to a packed audience on the real power of Google Earth titled ‘Finally, Staggering Good Things Mixing Google Earth and Media’. Hall is an educator who works for Discovery Education. If you haven’t seen the great work they do then it is well worth a look. Hall is an energetic presenter who REALLY knows how to manipulate Google Earth and gave some great examples of how it can be used in the classroom. One i really liked was a project called Google Lit Trips. This combines routes in literature with google earth allowing students studying the text to take to journey on Google Earth.Hall has been kind enough to upload all the resources he talked about on his blog DENMediaMatters. While some of this s technical and not for everyone I do see many great uses of Google Earth in education.Google Earth Resources
