1. Networked Learning
http://www.thenetworkedlearner.com
Learning Expeditions:
Using Google Earth to Explore, Collaborate and Promote
Social Engagement Online

2. How to absorb the next 60 minutes
• Know there are links to all of this information
online.
• Contribute to our discussions.
• Write down your brainstorms of HOW you will
take this information to your classrooms.
• Feel free to follow along when we jump online
to these apps!
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3. Where to find this information
The Networked Learner Wiki
http://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com
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4. Agenda
Session I Session II
• What is a Geo-Application? • Developing Learning
• Overview of Geo-Tools Expeditions
• Getting Around in Earth • Lesson Ideas for All Grades
• Creating Searches • Creating Placemarks
• Adding Content • Embeding Video and Other
• Searching for Content Apps
• Layers in Google Earth • Save Your Work
• Google Earth Community
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5. What is a geo-application?
• Geographical Information Systems store data and associate the data, stored
in a database, with points and polygons that comprise a map.
• Various tools allow you to manipulate these data points and understand the
relationships between them.
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6. Geo-Tools that talk to each other
Maps Earth
• View in web browser • Highly realistic with title,
• Create custom Google maps rotate & zoom
• Easy Collaboration • 3D terrain and 3D buildings
• Shared via simple web links • Virtual flights through content
• Embed easily in a website • Layers an many subjects
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7. Geo-Tools that talk to each other (cont.)
Google Sky Sketchup
• Earth and Space-based telescope • Teach perspective and spatial
data viewed in web browsers relationships
• Historical maps of the sky • Create, modify and share 2D and
• Virtual flights through the solar 3D models
system and beyond • Embed models in Earth
• 3D terrain of the Moon and Mars
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8. Google for Educators
http://www.google.com/educators/geo.html
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9. Downloading Google Earth
http://earth.google.com
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10. Google Earth 5.0 Interface
Menu Bar – Content Creation Tools
Search
Panel
Places
Panel
Nav.
Tools
Layers
Panel
Lat., Long. and Elevation
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11. Searching for Content
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Use Google’s Advanced
Search to find file types
.KML or .KMZ
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12. Layers in Google Earth
• Over 200 layers on different topics
associated with many disciplines.
• More layers to download from the
Google Earth Showcase and Google
Earth Online Community.
• Students can create their own
content, including embedding video,
audio, quizzes, and more.
• Development of layers is scalable
from basic insertion of text to the use
of XHTML and JavaScript
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13. Earth Outreach Showcase
http://earth.google.com/outreach/showcase.html
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14. Share Your Lesson Ideas
Google Earth Community
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/
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15. Developing Learning Expedition
Session II
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16. Geo-Apps inspire students to…
Discover Your World
- conduct research and identify problems
Engage in Discourse
- talk about historical events and their significance on modern society
Collect and Analyze Data
- use spatial tools and math skills to problem solving
Negotiate Your Surrounding
- to find your location, explore a trail or go on an adventure in a foreign land and meet
people from other cultures
Become Globally Aware
- look at global issues that affect us all; understand the relationship between people
and places
Engage in Social Action
- to become part of civil and social engagement efforts to solve problems in our
community and abroad
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17. Discover Your World
• Google Apps can be used to inspire students to do discover and be aware
of their surrounding.
• Pre-K and K students memorize their home address and are then shown
where it is in Google Earth.
More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into PreK and K at: Networked Learning 2009
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_65dzbp67gs

18. Engage in Discourse
• Geo Apps allow you to add points, polygons and 3D shapes and then save the
file. You can also add placemarks which can contain text, pictures, and links.
• In this activity, 3rd graders researched American explorers and collectively
built a map of their research, then discussed the significance on modern
scoiety.
More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into the Elementary Classroom at: Networked Learning 2009
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_66dvcqqbrh

19. Collect and Analyze Data
• Students used satellite images from Google Earth and various embedded
math tools to determine the slope and difficulty and then compared it to
Ski resort ratings.
More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into Middle School at: Networked Learning 2009
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_68dp4wdxcc

20. Integrate GPS Data into Earth
• 6th grade students at Walker took Garmin GPS units to the Atlanta zoo
and used them to find the location of various animals. Besides collecting
data on some of the animals for science class, the also uploaded the data
points and were tasked with calculating the shortest route to see all of the
animals with minimal overlapping in their route. The also calculated the
total distance walked during the exercise.
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21. Negotiate Your Surrounding
• Use GeoApps to plan hiking, caving and camping trips. High school
students at Walker create Expedition Lit Trips to study historical and
modern explores and the significance their discoveries played on modern
society and extreme sports.
Expedition Lit Trips can be found at: Networked Learning 2009
http://expeditionlittrips.wikispaces.com

22. Teacher as Designer
• See yourself as a curriculum designer – owner
of the curriculum you teach.
• Honor creativity – yours first, then the
student’s
• Repurpose the technology! Go beyond simple
“use” and “integration” to innovation.
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23. Poetry of Place
http://poetryofplace.wikispaces.com
• Students can learn about the beauty of a place by taking pictures and
studying the poetry written about a particular place and then create
placemarks about their studies.
More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into High School at: Networked Learning 2009
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_69chpv96f8

24. Become Globally Aware
• Students can use Geo Apps to create layers about a social issues and to
raise awareness and plan fund raising activities.
• In this project, students study how children are marginalized around the
world through poverty, malnutrition, mental disorders, disease and other
topics. Students use their online networks to raise money for global
children’s charities.
The Lost Children’s projects can be found at: Networked Learning 2009
http://ourlostchildren.wikispaces.com

25. Scaffolds to Becoming a Networked Learner
• Share
• Cooperate
• Collaborate
• Collective Action
According to Clay Shirky “Here
Comes Everyone” , there are for
stages to becoming a networked
learner. - http://www.shirky.com/
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26. Explore the Spatial Relationship of History and Literature
• Students read books on expedition history and extreme sports around the
globe. These students are interested in history, its people and the places they
lived. We are also interested in studying the significance historical expeditions
play on contemporary literature.
Expedition Lit Trips project can be found at: Networked Learning 2009
http://landofhope.wikispaces.com

27. Cooperate with Others to Learn
• Students from around the country are cooperating on an interdisciplinary
project to visualize various historical and modern immigrations around the
globe. They are interested in the push and pull factors that motivate
people from various cultures to move.
The Land of Hope project can be found at: Networked Learning 2009
http://landofhope.wikispaces.com

28. Engage in Research and Social Action
• Students at all grade levels through college can collaborate on developing
research questions, collect data (chemical, geological, biological, cultural),
and analyze information to study a current problem. The project
encourages students to take responsibility for keeping their local water
supply clean.
• Google Docs, Forms, Sites and Earth can be used to display and share data
between researchers.
The Clean Watersheds project can be found at: Networked Learning 2009
http://cleanwatersheds.wikispaces.com

29. Education is on the Move
Shifting From Shifting To
Learning at School Learning anytime / anywhere
Teaching as a private event Teaching as a public, collaborative
practice
Learning as passive participant Learning in a participatory culture
Learning as individuals Learning in a networked community
Linear knowledge Distributed knowledge
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30. Question Your Role in Education
And the Role of Technology
• Are you using your technology resources to promote global
connections and collaborations?
• How are you using technology to promote deep rigor and
critical thinking skills?
• Are you creating digital citizens who understand good and
right in a fast changing world?
• Do you balance the celebration of individual achievement
with empowering students to live and succeed in a
participatory culture-- one that shifts the focus of literacy
from individual expression to community involvement?
• Are you maximizing the opportunities of collective action to
underscore what a life of purpose and service can entail in
the 21st Century?
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31. Google Earth Screencast Tutorials
http://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com/Tutorials
Screencast Tutorials Available on wiki site.
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32. Thank You
“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into
the bypaths and untrodden depths of the
wilderness and travel and explore and tell the
world the glories of our journey.
- John Hope Franklin
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