Slides from an presentation given as part of the 'Pictures Sounds Numbers Words... Teaching and Learning with Technology' online conference hosted by the Maine Department of Education, May 2009.The full presentation will be available on iTunesU in the near future.

1. Google Earth for Research, Writing and Collaboration

2. Jim Wells [email_address]

3. Introduce Yourself... In the text chat: Name School / Organization Your position / subject

4. Why use Google Earth in the classroom?

5. Making Sense of Place

6. Google Earth encourages exploration

7. Google Earth provides a visual framework for understanding

8. Google Earth encourages the sharing of knowledge

9. Google Earth Basics Navigation Tools Sidebar Viewer

10. Sidebar Search Places Layers

11. Navigation Zoom Tilt Direction

12. Let’s explore...

13. Research

14. Research using layers of information

16. Google Earth Community

17. Google Earth Community Forums

18. Google Earth Community Education Forum

19. Writing

20. Placemarks

21. Writing about place

22. Autobiography

23. Adding links and pictures

24. Collaboration

25. Saving your work

26. Posting to the GE Community

27. Photo credits Created by spdorsey on Flickr Created by Andrew Stawartz on Flickr Created by jspad on Flickr Created by teamscuby on Flickr Created by stgermh on Flickr Created by snappybex on Flickr Created by USGS