Google Earth

Google E tour in 8th grade bef the DC trip
G E guided tours.  6th grade science use to track pollution.
Existing GE tours.
Spanish: glacier between argentina and  chile
New version of GE. Street view you can put an address and view 3D
Weather feature clouds radar conditions and forecast dooppler radar
Gallery and global awareness (not spots issues of the day) Darfur created by the US Holocaust museum
Middle section is for placement of guided tours stops along the way using KML keynote mark up language Side lower bar has a lot of overlays that can be turned on and off.
Always show balloons when touring.  In preferences of Google Earth you can choose how long each stop will be at each pause as well as other
Assignment using GE was given to French students.  They were given a certain number of Francs.  Places to eat, places to see, go to the cinema.  Google maps and
Earth.google.com is the place to find the gallery. In the gallery you will find lots of tours created by individuals.  Another way is tho go to Advanced search.   Specify file type such as ppt files.  You will need to choose you can restrict your search to a KLM or KMZ (file is zipped)

I have a wonderful quicktime movie that I wanted have a link to that movie, but I got the message that the file was too large to link!

I can’t wait to apply some of the things I learned through the homework and so far today in my teaching. My only disappointment is that I can’t see the faces of my students when they get to use it! I found that reading about bits and  very boring and I almost said “Frankly, my dear ..”, but after today’s session I can see that it can be really usefull.

Here is a picture of atomic orbitals