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360 Cities now easily embeddable in websites / blogs

I spoke about 360 Cities at SAGT 2008 and also had a demo to show at Teachmeet BETT 2009 – unfortunately the video didn’t play!

The latest evolution of this product (thanks Noel) is the ability to embed these 360 city panoramas into websites. Again this opens up all sorts of possibilities for virtual fieldwork and getting students to explore and compare place. Its also pretty good fun!

The embed below is of the top of Helvellyn in the Lake District.

view Panoramic photography of UK

SAGT 2008: Things for you to try during my Google Earth Presentation

Things for you to try my 2008 Scottish Assosiation of Geography Teachers Presentation on the 'How To' of Geography and Google Earth:

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www.wordle.net– make interesting word clouds

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www.maps.google.com– Google Maps (experiment by switching between satellite, street view, traffic, maps, hybrid, Street view and terrain).

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www.earth.google.com– Google Earth

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Google Map’s Mash Up’s

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www.mapmsq.com/send/smokesignal- Make Smoke signals come out of Google maps for anywhere in the world.

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http://flood.firetree.net– Sea Level Rise Simulator

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http://flickrvision.com– See photos appear on a world map and 3D globe in real time

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Google Earth – things to Try

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Open Google earth – you will find it in the Start Menu

• The Ruler Tool
• Time on the Latitude and Longitude Lines
• Find your school and flay to another place

 

www.gearthhacks.com/downloads- Google Earth files that other people have already created

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http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/stonehenge.htm- Noels Excellent Stonehenge Google earth decision making exercise.

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http://www.360cities.net/- 360 City Panoramas (you can view in Google Earth)

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Mess around with the layers:

• The Weather
• 3D Buildings – Have a look at Disney World
• The Gallery – Use the Gallery to explore a place (I used Japan)

Google Sky

• Switch between Google earth and Google Sky

SAGT Conference 2008: The ‘How To’ of Google Earth

My on-line handout for the 2008 Scottish Association of Geography Teachers Conference on the ‘How to…’ of Google Earth will be hosted here from Sunday Evening as soon as possible!

Up-date 27th October: I'm having a few difficulties up-loading the video content from Saturdays presentation. Might be to do with the fact that there is 4.2 gb of it to compress into Google Video. I will post the on-line hand out as soon as possible.