Geo-Apps: Google Maps and Google Earth

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use Google Maps and Google Earth Specifically, participants will learn how to:

Navigate and search in Google Maps and Google Earth
Create a Custom Google Map
Customize Google Map Placemarks with text, links, images, and embedded videos
Share Custom Google Maps with links and as embedded maps on webpages
Use Google Earth's layers, measurement tools, and places
Use Google Earth custom KML/KMZ files created by others
Create custom Google Earth custom KML/KMZ web tours and share them

New: Street View and Earth View!

Using Google Earth to Measure Diameter (Film on the Fly)

Our Shared Map

Jerome Burg: Microsoft Laureate (Google Lit Trips)

GWE Maps

Integration Ideas:

The London of Sherlock Holmes Mapped
24 Interesting Ways to Use Google Earth in the Classroom
Google's Geo Education Page
Find Locations of Great Paintings -http://geocodedart.com/
Pre-School Classroom
Lower School Classroom (Grades 1-5)
Middle School Classroom (Grades 6-8)
Upper School Classroom (Grades 9-12)
AP Courses
Google Earth and Math
Ryan Byrne's post on Historic Maps
Over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps Rumsey Historical Maps
Historic maps in the classroom
National Parks Information: here and here
50 Exciting Ideas to Use Google Earth in the Classrooms

Projects:

Google Lessons - features some Geo Apps Lessons
American Explorers
Clean Watersheds - http://cleanwatersheds.wikispaces.com
Environmental I-Reports - http://goapes.wikispaces.com/ireport
Expedition Lit Trips - http://outdoortech.wikispaces.com
Our Lost Children - http://ourlostchildren.wikispaces.com
Poetry of Place - http://poetryofplace.wikispaces.com
Trace Your Trash - http://goapes.wikispaces.com/traceyourtrash
Add Pictures:http://www.panoramio.com/
Build buildings with Google Building Maker
Real world Math Lessons

Other Applications:

Here are some application that you can use and then embed in Google Maps and Earth.

SlideShare - http://www.slideshare.net/
Podomatic - http://www.podomatic.com/
Quizzlet - http://quizlet.com/user/Quizzlet/
VoiceThread - http://ed.voicethread.com/
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com

Google Maps in Other Languages:

Students of foreign languages can be tasked to locate cities, give directions, or create placemarks about museums, shops, geographical features and other cultural practices.

Chinese Maps - http://ditu.google.cn/
French Maps - http://maps.google.fr/
German Maps - http://maps.google.de/
Spanish Maps - http://maps.google.es/
Italian Maps - http://maps.google.it/
Russian Maps - http://maps.google.ru/

The Tools:

The Crib Sheets:

Help

Activity: Create A Multi-Media Map

I have shared a custom map and invited you as collaborators.

Add a marker for a place you've always wanted to go
The school or place where you work
A place you reference in your curriculum
A place where you have eaten a GREAT meal!
A place where you had a fun adventure (maybe in summer 2010)
EXTRA:
- Change the Icon
- Embed text and media into the markers, including:
- Text
- Links
- Images
- Video (use the old YouTube embed code)
- Other, such as a Google Doc, Form, or Presentation

Google Maps Tutorial