Staggeringly Good Things Mixing Google Earth and MediaHall Davidson, Director; Discovery Education
Make the real terrain of the earth an interactive tool. Embed it with videos, images, sounds, podcasts, and more! From Internet or hard drive files create fantastic trips through neighborhoods, history, science or literature. Insert student images. Create shareable projects with GoogleEarth user communities. Use special layers. Make and save small files or videos of your projects, too
http://discoveryeducation.typepad.com/media_matters/2007/03/staggeringly_gr.html
Hall did a quick tour through Google Earth. Again, I was somewhat familiar with this since I had watched his presentation on Discovery Educator's Network. He did throw in some new neat things that I look forward to trying with my class. We just recently did a Google Earth tour but I would like to expand that even further. One idea is to attach sound files and the students have to guess what the sound is and when you click on it takes you to the location the sound came from and a photo and explanation. ex. a tree frog in the rain forest in Costa Rica. Another neat idea was to do a quiz. You ask a question and give them choices of destinations. When they choose a destination, it takes you there and tells you whether you got it right or not. Lots of neat ideas about using overlay maps and such as well.
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