Geo Apps: Maps, Earth, and Sketchup

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The Tools: (brief demo)

The Crib Sheets:

Reference

HTML
KML

Overview of Maps

Search & Get Directions
Satellite View, Terrain View, & Traffic
Street View
More... (Photos, Videos, Wikipedia, Webcams)
My Maps: Browse & Create
Google Maps Help

Activity: Collaborative "Favorite Places" Map

Using your Google Account, the Lead Learner will invite you as a collaborator on our "GWE Sioux Falls, SD Favorite Places" map.
Add a place marker identifying your favorite place, this could be anywhere in the world or just here in SD.
Add content to the place marker using the rich text editing tools.
Advanced: Add an image or other media to the place marker using the HTML editor.
Bonus Points for including an image of yourself in addition to your other content.
Explore some of your colleagues favorite places...

Brief Demonstration of Google Earth and of Google Sketchup

Maps

GTA Sample Map

Andrew's GLI Google Maps Preso

YouTube Video

And something fun...check out Sampsonia Way:
YouTube Video
Now go to Googlemaps and search for: Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15212.

Google Maps in Other Languages:

Students of foreign languages can be tasked to locate cities, give directions, or create placemarks about museums, shops, geographical features and other cultural practices.
Chinese Maps - http://ditu.google.cn/
French Maps - http://maps.google.fr/
German Maps - http://maps.google.de/
Spanish Maps - http://maps.google.es/
Italian Maps - http://maps.google.it/
Russian Maps - http://maps.google.ru/

Projects:

More Resources:

Maps and Apps Mashup: http://www.google.com/apps/edu/bus/

Google Maps Mania: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

Map Pedometer: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

Voice Maps: http://www2.myvox.com/developers/gallery_detail.asp?chID=19

Map Spreadsheet Template: http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_spreadsheet.html

Google City Tours: http://citytours.googlelabs.com/

David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/gmaps.html

NY area Historical maps: http://www.henryhudson400.com/home.php

General Geography Resources

Worldmapping based on demographic data - http://www.worldmapper.org/
Simple movie of profound and interesting geography data - http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/movies/introB.html
Geography videogame - http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/playgame.html
Easily searchable demographic information - http://zipskinny.com/
Free scientific multimedia resource - http://www.arkiveeducation.org/index.html
Multimedia resource for windows - http://www.createascape.org.uk/home.html
Too much consumption, where does it all go? - www.storyofstuff.com
Clustrmaps... where are your visitors from? - http://www.clustermaps.com/

Note-

Even you can contribute images to the google maps and google earth library: http://www.panoramio.com/

Earth

INTEGRATION RESOURCES...
23 Interesting Ways to Use Google Earth in the Classroom . England Teacher, Tom Barrett started it, several others around the world have contributed to it.

Visit Google for Educators: Google Earth.

Tons of Education-specific content is available right in the Google Earth application in the PLACES section of the Google Earth sidebar by clicking the ADD CONTENT link i or by clicking here.

Google offers "tons" of educational integrations for Google Earth integrations here.

Need help with Google Earth in your classroom? Check out the Google Educators Discussion Group. (Google Earth Search Results)

GOOGLE EARTH RESOURCES...

Download Google Earth here.

Explore Google's, Google Earth Product Tour videos.

Get Google Earth for your iPhone FREE!
Be sure to subscribe to the Google Earth Sightseers Newletter!

Check out Google's Lat Long Blog

Other Applications:

Here are some application that you can use and then embed in Google Maps and Earth.
SlideShare - http://www.slideshare.net/
Podomatic - http://www.podomatic.com/
Quizzlet - http://quizlet.com/user/Quizzlet/
VoiceThread - http://ed.voicethread.com/
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com

Sketchup

Google Sketchup Blog
http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/

Books
Sketchup For Dummies

The official site to accompany the book is here

Videos
Sketchup Video Tutorials

Sketchup Training

Aidan Chopra's You Tube Channel

Quick Reference
Cheat Sheet

User Guide

Modeling Criteria for Google Earth

Additional Information

Educational Applications

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