Tour the World with the NEW Google Earth - GTT016

Google News and Updates

• Mysterious pattern in Egypt
• Massive herd of water buffalo in Tanzania
• New Google Sites: group items vertically
• Bringing Within to WebVR

Featured Content

Google Maps is Google's map program. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (in beta), or public transportation.

• Easy access to Google Maps Street View
• 3D lets you see cities, other landscape stuff in 3D
• Look at places in history, in literature, in news, in popular culture
• Cards give you information at your fingertips you might not know otherwise (like integrating a Google search)
• Voyager: collections of images, street views, “interactive stories”
• Hold in shift for “helicopter view”
• I’m feeling lucky: find places you might not otherwise
• Can still
• When you switch locations, it zooms out and back in so you know where you were and where you’re going (orientation on the globe)
• Google Earth educator resources: http://ift.tt/2pbgB9y
• Reading ABC’s from space
• Trek Across the Galapagos
• Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World
• Follow the Google Earth Community
  • Google+
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google Earth blog

Resources

• Google Earth Lit Trips on Chromebooks by Eric Curts
• Ben Friesen’s New Google Earth resource page
• Create your own Google Earth tours with geteach.com/tour (blog post)
• EdTech Team’s blog and infographic: 10 Google Earth Updates That Will Change Your GEO Life

Assign a Google Voyage as an assignment in Classroom (YouTube)

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Holly Messner (Grade 5 teacher from Kansas City, MO)
  • Alice Keeler’s Anyone Can View Chrome extension
• Craig Klement - Insert a video into Google slides using the iPad

On The Blogs

• Matt - Writing papers and research reports the Google way
• Kasey - 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom

Countdown to Closing VIP Become a Google Certified Trainer Course (closes Midnight on May 21)

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