History Articles - Google Earth Blog

Google Earth Blog

This is a great site that shows you all the uses for GoogleEarth.com. Above is one example of how you can "go somewhere" and narrate the tour for your students. Wow!

History Articles - Ancient Sites in Google Earth

Ancient Sites in Google Earth

If you go to youtube.com and type in "Ancient sites + google earth" if you are in YouTube the above video is what you get. You can do it for anything you are studying. This one includes Google Earth scenes as well as pictures and includes Colossus of Rhodes, Greece, c.280 BC + Pharos of Alexandria, Egypt, c.285 BC + Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, Turkey, 351 BC + Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece, 435 BC + Temple of Art.

History Articles - Google Earth

Google Earth

Here is how to navigate around Google Earth. Below it is a video showing you how to place a marker for a site. I will be having a series of video so you can use this tool with your students. One use might be to follow the explorers in the Age of Exploration and both follow them on the earth, as well as embed pictures of the people and the places as they look today. The very top video tells you how to embed it in a blog.

History Articles - Google Earth

Google Earth

Google Earth keeps getting better. thanks to the Google Earth Blog and Free Tech4Teachers is a great video for looking at Afghanistan. It is more professional than what your students might do, but it will show them what is possible and give them something to shoot for. Check back soon as I will be adding a video showing how to do it.

Google Blog

 
Google Blog

If you have been reading this blog a while, you know that I like Google products that help me in the classroom. For example the other day I set up an "igoogle" page to house all of my favorite sites. Blogspot is a Google hosted item which I use for this blog. Google Docs is a great way for you and your colleagues/students to share projects. My wife and I have our family calendar on the Google calendar (with different colors for each person) and it is synched with my school Outlook calendar. There are, of course, lots of great videos for the classroom on Youtube (owned by Google). Finally I like Google Mail, not just because it is a good e-mail system, but my kids can video chat through it with their cousins in Maine (we're in VA). I also read a great book this past summer appropriately titled Planet Google. So if you are hunting for new Google ideas the Google blog should be helpful to you as they tell you about the products and then show you how to use it with a short video. Recently, for example, they released Google Dashboard which is a way to control the information that Google stores on you, which in my case is growing rapidly!

Multiple Uses for Google Earth

Multiple Uses for Google Earth

I found this from a tweet from Ann Oro. I am using it for locations of battles (such as the Civil War) where my students can put the name of the leaders, statistics, etc.

Igoogle and Google Docs in the Classroom

Igoogle and Google Docs in the Classroom
Here is a video I made for teachers in my county to be able to use the aggregator "igoogle" and Google Docs.

A How To Primer for Google Earth
If you haven't used Google Earth with your students or need to know how to do it or want lesson plans or examples of what you can do. Check out this site.