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Jump to first unread post. Pages: 1 RobChapman First Post Reged: 01/31/07 Posts: 1 Sources for GE virtual field trips/lessons/etc.?       #777986 - 01/31/07 09:49 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   First time poster! I just got back from an FETC Conference and discovered the power of Google Earth in the classroom. I am a Tech Teacher at an Elemementary School in Florida and teach grades K-5. I watched a virtual field trip to DC which had photos/videos/etc. and was blown away. I didn't get a chance to get their contact information, but they mentioned how great the online family can be for the kmz (I think files. I was curious if there was a good source for these files and virtual field trips or tours around the world?Obviously I teach a huge range of grades, so I was thinking along the lines of visiting places for Geography, History, Science, and much more! Any help would be much appreciated! I'll be working on a master list for our school, and also creating our own files so I'll make sure to update the files on here as well Thanks, RC4 Post Extras:       Kempster Master Guide Reged: 05/29/04 Posts: 1524 Loc: Eden Prairie, MN, USA Re: Sources for GE virtual field trips/lessons/etc.? [Re: RobChapman]       #778349 - 01/31/07 03:25 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Welcome to the Google Earth Community, Rob! Luckily, you've found the right place to begin learning about the potential of Google Earth in the classroom. I suggest you spend time looking through this forum, the Educators forum. Also, at the top of the forum, there's a Welcome to Google Earth Community's Education Forum post. This post has links to many excellent outside resources that will teach you how to impliment Google Earth into your curriculum. Please let me know if you have further questions! -------------------- Understanding Google Earth Resolution Differences --- Official Google Earth 4 User Guide --- Reporting Data Errors Post Extras:       JDWilliams Tourist Reged: 09/15/05 Posts: 15 Loc: Glendale, AZ Re: Sources for GE virtual field trips/lessons/etc [Re: RobChapman]       #781090 - 02/02/07 03:41 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Rob, welcome to the forums. I put together a tour of Washington, DC using SketchUp 3-D images (from the SketchUp Warehouse), wikipedia links, and UnitedStreaming videos. Was this the one that you saw at the conference? http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/650582/an/0/page/0#651360 If it was, I'm really glad it's being used. A lot of the posts on here have a bunch of great resources. Check these ones out: Using UnitedStreaming ( http://www.unitedstreaming.com ): http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/259555/an/0/page/0#259555 Multi-Media Maps for the classroom: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/659255/an/0/page/0#659255 UK Primary Curriculum: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/58519/an/0/page/0#58519 I am setting up a professional development on using Google Earth in the classroom for the district I work in. If anyone would like a draft of the hand-out I'm planning on using, send me a message on here with your email address, or reply in this post with it and I'll email it out. I'd like some feedback on it if anyone is interested. J.D. Williams Class Blog - http://mrwilliams.edublogs.org/ Google Earth Posts - http://mrwilliams.edublogs.org/category/google-earth/ Post Extras:       Education_Queensland Tourist Reged: 07/18/05 Posts: 3 Re: Sources for GE virtual field trips/lessons/etc.? [Re: RobChapman]       #813402 - 02/26/07 08:48 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Hi Rob, In Queensland, Australia, we encourage all teachers to use the Movie Maker extension in GEPro to create and capture virtual field trips and share around the state. We were establishing a closed educational portal to access these, then decided, why not post them on the GE education community? Collating some of these to share through this space, rather than have a number of spaces around the world where people are storing these files. We've had field trips of Gallipoli (important to Aussie WW1 histroy), Mt Everest, parts of Asia and our own outback, as well as localised ones for students to undertake virtual field trips before attending the locations for real. I think we need to encourage teachers globally to create and then share these via the community. Congratulations for you enthusiasm in moving forward with this. Meegan. Post Extras:       ATEEC Tourist Reged: 07/23/07 Posts: 16 Loc: Bettendorf, IA Re: Sources for GE virtual field trips/lessons/etc [Re: RobChapman]       #1218957 - 08/14/08 10:21 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   This one should work for you. It's in a short manual and a video. Very easy to follow. It shows you how to do everything to create a virtual field trip using all of Google's free services like Blogger, YouTube, Google Sketchup, etc. For teachers, they like free stuff and so do schools. This shows you how to do it all for free. From ATEEC. http://www.ateec.org/store/catalog/An-Il...rvices-170.html hth -Tim -------------------- Advanced Technology Environmental Energy Center (ATEEC) Post Extras:       Pages: 1

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