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Teasers and Spoilers

Posted on June 12, 2011 By Tom No Comments on Teasers and Spoilers
Miscellaneous

Got lots to write about, but I’ve been too busy to blog lately. I’m hoping to take today to catch up on several posts. These may seem a bit out of sync as to when they actually occurred, but that’s tough. Anyway, here are a few teasers and spoilers of things to come… Kayaking Took … Read More “Teasers and Spoilers” »

Three Collaborative Google Earth Projects

Posted on March 26, 2010 By Tom No Comments on Three Collaborative Google Earth Projects
EdTech, Geocaching and Maps

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I had wanted to entitle this post “Cool Google Earth Lesson Plans That Don’t Really Use Google Earth”, but I figure that would be a bit wordy. The idea was taken from my “Creating Media Rich Lessons with Google Earth” presentations that I’ve been doing lately. One of the strategies in that presentation is to embed content from other sources into Google Earth. As I was giving some examples to the workshop participants, it occurred to me that you could do a collaborative project in Google Earth where kids do most of their work in some other application, bringing these together at the last minute in Google Earth. Here are a few of those ideas, and the applications needed.

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