Building Tours in Google Earth

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While Google Earth is a wonderful reference and research tool, it also has tools that make it an excellent medium for student projects, an alternative to the same old PowerPoint or Photostory. And teachers can use the same features to build interactive multimedia presentations to use as part of their instruction. The material on this [...]

19 Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for Using Google Earth and Google Maps

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Thank you for attending my session and for visiting the site. On this page you’ll find all of the information and references I presented, plus more for you to play with on your own. In the interest of full disclosure, you’ll find more than the “19″ bits of material noted in the title, so please [...]

Introduction to Google Sketchup

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There are many tutorials for learning Google’s SketchUp software on the web, including a large collection of videos on YouTube. On this page you’ll find links to some of the best introductory training, many of which were used as the core activities during our workshop, along with other resources for continuing your learning about SketchUp. [...]

Beyond Blogging: Content Management for Mortals Using WordPress

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If you attended my session at NECC 2009 or JOSTI 2009, thank you. I know your time at these conferences is valuable, so I hope you left with some good information and ideas that you can use. While you will not find the slide show I used (it’s not of much use by itself), you [...]

Creating Projects in Google Earth

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Thank you for attending the workshop. While we didn’t have time to turn you into an expert, I hope you left with some good ideas of how you can create your own layers in Google Earth. This page includes links to all the activities we used during the session along with many more to help [...]