The newest edition to some of the fascinating resources in Google Maps/Earth, is the ability to tour the Ocean, complete with reef wildlife. To explore some of these locations, you will be using “Street View.” Here’s a quick video on how to use it: Great Barrier Reef Sea turtle swimming among a school of fish Manta Ray [...]
Just wanted to let you know that the Oliver K. Woodman Geobug is now in a travel bug hotel in Portland, Oregon! He has already traveled 2254.5 miles!! A travel bug hotel is a geocache that is located near a highly traveled place–like an interstate. This one is located outside a hotel near the Portland airport. This [...]
The new Google Earth update offers some new features you might want to check out. It will take awhile for us to get the update in the labs (and we might wait until it’s out of beta), but meanwhile, with your teacher laptop and the Smartboard, you and your students can take advantage of these [...]
Here’s another great resource from the VSTE conference: It’s a Small World After All…Integrating Google Earth into the Virginia Standards of Learning. Sarah Walters, an ITRT from Loudoun County, has put together a nice collection of lesson plans and files to use with Google Earth. My favorites that I’ve seen so far is the Passport [...]
