Welcome to Ms. Lane’s world

June 25
Google Earth
ideas – tour of DC trip
applications
guided tour (see SCWiki, Chapter on Step by Step)
overlays (created already)
I. Top area – search area
“fly to” 3d buildings (most major cities) /street view
II. Bottom area – layers – always changing, can turn them off and on (don’t have too many on at one time), have to zoom to see certain layers
examples:
cloud cover, doplar radar
borders and labels
alternate place names
gallery
global awareness (hot spots, issues of the day) – Darfur
III. Places – where guided tours reside (KLM – keynote mark-up language)
tours are written in HTML by anyone
example: Odysseus’ journey (Google sketch-up for model)
preferences/touring- for speed
always check “on” show balloon when tour is paused
lesson – scavenger hunt in Paris
Great Pyramids – tour with discussion of why built there
finding tours
1. earth.google.com – gallery
2. Google – advanced search – search under file type kml, kmz
example: all these words: baseball parks
file type: kml
need to download – save link as – automatically opens up
and stores in my places
Google Sky (planet icon)