Incorporating Media with
Google Tools
Pamela Newman
Bucks County Intermediate Unit
Google’s Mission
“Organize the world’s
information and make it
universally accessible and useful”
Google for Educators
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The Infinite Thinking Machine
Teacher Community
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Tools for Your Classrooms
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
Tools for Your Classroom
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Book Search
Earth
Maps
News
iGoogle
Web Search
Blogger
Calendar
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Docs
Groups
Page Creator
Picasa
SketchUp
Google Apps
Education Edition
Custom Search
Engine
Google Notebook
Google Earth
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Satellite imagery of the Earth that includes
layers of information
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Free download http://earth.google.com
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Content partners include Discovery
Education, National Geographic, Wikipedia
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Still pictures
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Share files
Ways to Use
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Searchable virtual globe of satellite images
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GIS-like map layers= Transferable skill
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Touring
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Combine with video, audio, image content
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Google Lit Trips
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Alternate assessment medium
Touring
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Historical Events
Current Events
Habitats
Scavenger Hunt by coordinate
Landmarks/Landforms (terrain layer)
Migration or travel route (people or
animals)
Country/state study
Planets and space
Literature Studies
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Google Lit Trips
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Search panel - Use this to find places and directions
and manage search results. Google Earth EC may
display additional tabs here.
Overview map - Use this for an additional
perspective of the Earth.
Hide/Show sidebar - Click this to conceal or the
display the side bar (Search, Places and Layers
panels).
Placemark - Click this to add a placemark for a
location.
Polygon - Click this to add a polygon.
Path - Click this to add a path (line or lines).
Image Overlay - Click this to add an image overlay
on the Earth.
Measure - Click this to measure a distance or area
size.
Email - Click this to email a view or image.
Print - Click this to print the current view of the
Earth.
Show in Google Maps - Click this to show the
current view in Google Maps in your web browser.
Sky - Click this to view stars, constellations,
galaxies, planets and the Earth's moon.
Navigation controls - Use these to tilt, zoom and
move around your viewpoint (see below).
Layers panel - Use this to display points of interest.
Places panel - Use this to locate, save, organize and
revisit placemarks.
Add Content - Click this to import exciting content
from the KML Gallery
3D Viewer - View the globe and its terrain in this
window.
Status bar - View coordinate, elevation and imagery
streaming status
Navigation Tools
Tilt Up
Reorient
to North
Tilt Down
Zoom In
Zoom Out
Sidebar
Search
•Enter a location name
•Eiffel Tower
•Niagara Falls
•Paste coordinates from Wikipedia or
another source
•Blarney Castle, Loch Ness
•Enter City, Country
•Petronus Towers in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Places
•Save your work here
•Each student can create and save folders
Layers
•Great pre-made resources
Layers
Discovery Networks Layer
•Tours
•Road Trips
•Interactive media
Personalizing Media
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To create a folder:
– Right click on My Places
– Name the folder
Placemarks
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Make placemarks be your starting point to link to
Discovery articles, videos, pictures and other Internet
resources.
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Add a placemark
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Customize icon
Add a Description
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Add an article,
Limit your
Discoverystrea
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“Articles”
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Copy and paste
text
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<br> creates a
line break
Add Images
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Add an
Overlay
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Limit
DiscoveryStre
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to images
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Download
image
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Load file
Add Video
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Find
Discovery
Streaming
video
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Right click the
green play
button next to
the segment
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Copy shortcut
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Paste into
description in
Google Earth
Make a Path or Polygon
Create path using Path or Polygon
Tool
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Click each location in order
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Navigate with CTRL + arrow keys or
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Close path or polygon box
Measurement
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Show Spatial relationships:
– Ruler tool
– Pointer elevation display
– View menu> Scale Legend
Differentiation: HTML Code
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Code for line break <br>
Code to make link attractive
<a href=“Paste copied Shortcut
here">Click here for video</a>
Code to insert image into a
description box
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Right click the picture in Streaming>
Properties
2. Select entire URL and copy
<img src=“Paste the URL here”>
Organize, Save and Share
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Drag content into a logical sequence in
your folder
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Right click on the folder
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Save as a KMZ file on a shared server,
flash drive, or burn to a CD
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Round robin or pair-share in class
Touring
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Click on folder
Use play button
Control tours under tools
Play repeatedly for Parent Night
Don’t forget Google Sky…
Alternate Assessment
Are you starting to see the ways our
students can produce work?
Differentiation
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Gathering information about locations
to be marked
Using GIS (Geographic Information
System)-like layers to find information
on map
Customizing a map with placemarks
Composing and editing text in a word
processor before copying it to the map
Sequencing a tour’s placemarks and
image overlays to play in a logical order
Differentiation by Content
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Finding specified facts, e.g. when was this
landmark erected vs. finding student’s own
facts, e.g. why is this place important and
interesting
Open-endedness: find 2 landmarks vs. find as
many landmarks as you can in this class
period
Difficulty of subject matter: Western
European, North American, and East Asian
countries have larger high resolution areas
and more entries in the layers, compared to
Central African and Central American
nations. It is easier to locate landmarks in
London, England than in Abuja, Nigeria.
Differentiation by Process
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Research using library resources organized by the
library media specialist.
Use Discovery Streaming videos and Google Earth
layers as well as written text.
For a country of origin project, interview relatives.
Http://simple.wikipedia.org is written in simple
English and is useful for researching very common
topics. It features only 25,000 articles vs. 2.209
million articles in English at www.wikipedia.org.
Nettrekker DI www.nettrekker.com offers articles
organized by reading level.
Put students in groups and try different roles:
Internet researcher, Google Earth navigator, video
evaluator, image locator.
Differentiation by Product
– Tour can feature or omit links, photos,
video, text, HTML.
– Vary length of tour and/or specificity of
placemark location (on landmark vs.
on city where landmark is located).
– Present tour as an oral report,
accompanied by a written summary, or
simply as the Google Earth file.
Additional Resources
http://www.gelessons.com
A treasure trove of tips, KMZ files and lesson plans!
http://bbs.keyhole.com/
Google Earth Community message board. Includes a board for
educators and one for students.
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/dherring/ge/googleearth.htm
An educator’s site with more KMZ files and ideas.
http://www.googlelittrips.org
Tours of locations from literature.
http://googleearthgoods.pbwiki.com/
Cindy Lane’s wiki with many online GE resources.
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com
Videos, images, encyclopedia articles by subscription.
Contact Information
Pamela Newman
Bucks County Intermediate Unit
(215)348-2940 x1607
pnewman@bucksiu.org
PowerPoint will be posted at www.bucksiu.org.