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Making and Taking Virtual Tours With Google Earth |
Explore and create : Creation lab
Eric Curts
With Google Earth's Project tool you can make a 3D geographic tour of a story, historical event, interesting locations or any concept you are exploring in class, including text, images, videos, links and more. Learn how you and your students can create, collaborate and share virtual educational tours!
| Audience: | Coaches, Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices required |
| Attendee device specification: | Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | Attendees will need to have a Google account (personal or Google for Education) and a Windows laptop, Mac laptop, or Chromebook to fully participate in the session. |
| Topic: | Creativity & curation tools |
| Grade level: | PK-12 |
| ISTE Standards: | For Students: Creative Communicator
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The purpose of this session is to explore Google Earth's Project tool to show how students can use photos, videos, maps, text, links, and more to tell dynamic multimedia stories to express their learning in any subject area.
Participants will explore premade Google Earth tours, and will then create their own as we work through each step in the process. Finally attendees will share their creations with the rest of the group to learn from each other.
The session will cover the following information.
Explore (10 minutes)
Attendees will access and explore a pre-made Tour to see what can be created with this tool.
Create (60 minutes)
Attendees will choose a topic they would like to build a Tour for and will be guided step-by-step in the creation of the Tour. They will include adding locations, photos, videos, descriptions, placemarks, custom views, informational slides, lines, shapes, and more.
View (10 minutes)
Attendees will learn how to play their Tour online and navigate through the content.
Share (10 minutes)
Attendees will share links to their Tours with the group so participants can learn from each other.
Google Earth's Project tool provides students with an engaging, creative alternative to expressing themselves. The benefits of using technology for multimedia, digital storytelling are well documented by research. Many of these benefits are documented in the article “Research Supporting Digital Storytelling” at http://courseweb.ischool.illinois.edu/~jevogel2/lis506/research.html
Several key benefits include:
Multiliteracy skills
Collaboration with other students
Exploring the influence of media
Development of pre-writing and storyboarding skills
Developing interdisciplinary connections
Recognition of skills in art, media production, storytelling, and project development
Engaging reluctant readers
Improving reading comprehension
Improving motivation
Eric Curts is a veteran educator who currently serves as a Technology Integration Specialist for the Stark County Educational Service Center in Ohio where he oversees Google for Education implementation, training, and support, as well as other technology integration initiatives. Eric is an authorized Google for Education Trainer and Innovator, and provides training to schools, organizations, and conferences across the country. Eric runs the award-winning blog ControlAltAchieve.com where all of his edtech resources can be found, and is the author of the book "Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting Your Classroom with Creative Google Projects".
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