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Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging Learning Environments
Re-Envisioning Learning Spaces
EdTech Leaders Online
Exploring the Changing Landscape of Technology and Learning
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10 Keys to Effective Professional Development
140 Characters and Beyond: Learning to Connect with Twitter
A Collection of Perspectives on 21st Century Learning
An Organizational Approach to Web 2.0
Behind the Scenes: How Schools Initiate and Prepare for Learning Space Change
Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype: Focusing on What Really Matters
Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling
Cartography on the Cutting Edge
Collaboration in the Age of Google
Creating Digital Learning Spaces (Workshop)
Creating Immersive Learning Environments with Mixed Media
Design Spaces for Learning: Exploring Physical and Virtual Learning Areas with Chris Johnson and Christian Long
Developing Digital Learning Spaces: From Vision to Reality
Developing Guidelines for Social Media
Developing Guidelines for Emerging Technologies
Developing Flexible Spaces for Student Learning
Digital Footprints: What Educators Need to Know
Expanding Notions of Digital Learning Spaces
Four: Forty: 140: Four Themes, Forty Ideas, 140 Characters
Habits and Habitats: Rethinking Learning Spaces for the 21st Century
Hitting a Moving Target: Best Practice Teaching and Learning
Implications of Web 2.0: 2010 Update (panel)
Improving Literacy Skills Through Blogging
Launching a Learning Community
Leaders and Learning Spaces (Workshop)
Leadership in the 21st Century: Starting and Sustaining Change
Learning at the Speed of Technology
Learning Space page for the ISTE Summit
Life on the Screen (Workshop)
Life on the Screen (Presentation)
Mini-Summit: Social, Professional and Academic Networking: Ready for School?
Michigan AIA | Renewing the Imagination of Schools and Learning and What's Next? Lessons Learned from the Conference
Moodle: Creating Your Course Presence
Offline and Online: A Context for Libraries in the 21st Century
One Hour PowerPoint: 10 Strategies for Improving Student Presentations
On the Development of Learning Spaces
On the Development of Multidimensional Learning Spaces (ISTE SIG)
Organizing Student and Teacher Learning with RSS
Overcoming Technology Yah Buts
Re-Envisioning Learning Spaces
Renewing the Imagination of Schools and Learning
Revisiting Moodle: Expanding Your Course Presence
Social Media and Student Devices: Developing Guidelines
Standing Room Only - How to Create Unforgettable Presentation Media
Tech Forum Atlanta Panel Discussion: Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype
Tech Forum Midwest Panel Discussion: Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype
Tech Forum SouthWest Panel Discussion: Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype
The Impact of Social Media in Schools: Welcoming and Responding to the Disruption
The Top Ten Technology Tools of Today
Towards a Framework for Visual Literacy Learning
Understanding and Applying Connective Technologies to Teaching and Learning
Understanding and Applying Web 2.0 Technologies to Teaching and Learning (ISTE)
Understanding and Developing Social Media Guidelines for Schools
Using Google to Enhance the Social Studies Curriculum
What If? (Educon Workshop)
What If? (Presentation)
What If The Story Changed? (K12 Online Conference)
Why Johnny Can't Read...A Conversation About What It Means to be Literate...Today
Yah But! Meeting the Challenges of Disruptive Technologies
Cartography on the Cutting Edge
Every subject can be studied within a geographical context. Two freely available tools, Google Earth and Google Maps can be used by teachers and students to create rich learning environments that merge content, media, and geography to make learning truly engaging.
These two tools are rapidly evolving, with a rich online community supporting the application of these two tools to teaching and learning.
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Maps: Finding Our Way in the World | Field Museum of Chicago
My del.icio.us tag for Google Earth
My del.icio.us tag for Google Maps
Tools from Google
Google Earth
Google Maps
Google Streetview
Google Sky | Google Sky Online
Google Moon
Google Mars
Introduction to Google Earth and Maps
Basics of Google Earth and Maps| Just what the title says
Google Earth HTML Cut and Paste Code | Simple scripts for inserting various types of content into Google Earth placemark windows
How to Embed | New Web 2.0 tools produce embed code, what is it and how can it be utilized in Google Earth?
Sharing files (KML and KMZ). How to work with those files, save them, and distribute them.
Compare Earth and Maps | What are the differences between the two platforms and how does this impact their use in education?
Presentation Sequences
Presentation sequence-Google Maps and Earth
Presentation links-Mt. Everest
Presentation links-wetlands ecology
Presentation links- Remembering JFK
Presentation embeds
Presentation Handout- 
Compare Maps and Earth.pdf
Video Resources | Google Earth Screencasts
How to create content in Google Earth Placemark windows
Introduction to the Process | Using an online editor to create HTML Code
Video Resources | Google Streetview Screencasts
Streetview playlists -three movies of Streetview and the JFK assassination
Printed Tutorials
Creating Content in Google Earth placemark windows: create text, images, hyperlinks and video in placemarks
Managing Placemarks in the Classroom: creating a Google Earth project across multiple class periods
Using Flickr with Google Earth: how to use Creative Commons Flickr images in Google Earth placemarks
Availability:
Google Earth (GE) is available as a free download from Google and requires installation. The most current version available for PC, Mac, and Linux machines is v6.0. Google Maps (GM) is available online at maps.google.com; does not require installation.
Logins:
Google Earth does not require a login to access and create GE files. Google Maps can be used online without a login to view files, but map creation requires a Google account. This can be problematic for schools, but not impossible.
Media File Support:
The emergence of various Web 2.0 tools and resources, has given rise to “embed codes,” or small pieces of script that enable the user to add different resources to various Web 2.0 interfaces, most typically blogs. For example, a blogger can embed a YouTube video directly in their blog post, and the reader/user can play the video directly in the blog without having to visit YouTube directly. In GE and GM, the embed codes are placed in placemark windows.
- Google Maps: embed codes from YouTube video only.
- Google Earth: embed codes from YouTube, Slideshare (Powerpoint file sharing), Audioboo (podcasting), Voicethread, and Animoto. uStream.tv streaming video can also be embedded.
- Other media, such as text, images, and hyperlinks can be embedded as well in both.
Ease of Use | File Creation: it is easiest to create simple map files in Google Maps and export them to Google Earth. For simple applications, and for teacher-created products, I prefer creating files in Google Maps. For more complex applications involving multiple types of media, I create files in Earth.
Media Creation
Google Earth requires that the user have some basic knowledge of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language, used to build Web sites) to place multimedia elements in placemark windows. Google Maps has a Rich-Text editor that streamlines media creation/addition in placemark windows.
Specialized Applications:
Google Earth: has Google Sky embedded in it in the most current version. View planets, constellations, nebulae, stars and galaxies. Amazing. Google Earth also has a hidden flight simulator embedded in it. v4.2 only.
Google Maps: includes Streetview, which gives viewers the capability to view 3-D rotational pictures of streets in placemark windows. Google Maps also features Mapplets, which add functionality of Google Maps. Google Maps also offers a Profile Page, which looks like Googles attempt to bring social networking to Maps. My profile page is here.
Resources for Educators:
An Illustrated Guide to Creating Virtual Field Trips using Google Services
7 Things You Should Know About Google Earth
Juicy Geography: Google Earth Blog
GoogleLitTrips.com: explore literature through Google Earth
Ten Ideas for Using Google Maps and Google Earth
How to embed resources-Voicethread | John Maklary