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Putting the Pieces Together – An Introduction to Google Maps and
Google Earth
Wednesday, October 24, 12:00-1:30 pm
Richard Kujawa, Presenter and Former TWTW Mentor
Richard
will provide an introduction to Google Maps and Google Earth in
general terms, but also in their applicability to geographically
referencing other content.
He will
take folks down into the "basement" of Google Earth, where
organizations of all sorts are piling interesting content
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including National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, publishers of
antique maps, NASA, the United Nations and others. In addition,
participants will be introduced to the Google Earth Community. For
Google Maps, Richard will discuss using
place marks to
geo-reference content. Place marks can be repositories of information
(text, pictures, links, sound) that appear on a Google Map and can be
saved, sent and/or edited by other users. (Some sets of place marks
are publicly available through searches, although they may be
commercial in nature). Making your own or having students make them
can offer avenues for many disciplines. Possible examples: putting
placemarks in key locations for a class (writers, artists, sites of
worship, sites of battles or other events) and having students do
annotations or keeping records of field trips, field work etc.
The big
difference between Google Maps and Google Earth is that Google Maps
runs on the web; Google Earth has to be downloaded (it does need web
access to run).
As time
permits, Richard may also show some aspects of the NASA program World
Wind (another virtual globe) and talk about its use for particular
disciplines.
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