Finally, Staggeringly Good Things

Mixing Google Earth and Media

Hall Davidson
Director, Discovery Educator Network
hall_davidson@discovery.com

Google Conf idential and Proprietary

Table of Contents
Slide 3

Wesites used in the presentation

Slide 6

Quick Start User Guide

Slide 7

Placemarks (adding Video and Audio)

Slide 12

Image Overlays

Slide 13

Quizzes and Assignments (unitedstreaming)

Slide 15

Flyovers and Saving

Slide 16

Ruler

Slide 17

Preferences (Touring, 3D)

Slide 19

Layers

Slide 22

Communities

Slide 23

Businesses

Slide 24

Screen Capturing Google Earth

Slide 26

Additional Resources & Websites

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Communities from Cindy Lane

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Websites used in
Presentation
This ppt. represents
the work of Lance
Rougeux, Jannita
Demian, and others
from the DEN, each
of whom do great
Google Earth
presentations!

www.earth.google.com
http://www.unitedstreaming.com
http://www.discoveryeducatornetwork.com/
www.google.com/educators
http://findsounds.com/
http://tinyurl.com/
Handouts at www.tinyURL.com/2x8n4b
http://discoveryeducation.typepad.com/media_matters/
Discoveryeducatornetwork.com (media matters blog)
http://halldavidson.org/

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Websites used in
Presentation

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Discovery Education unitedstreaming

is a digital video-based learning
resource that provides on-demand
access to 50,000 content-specific
segments from 5,000 full-length
educational videos. Today,
educators at more than half the
schools across the United States use
unitedstreaming to integrate vibrant
digital content into the curricula of
more than 30 million students.
www.unitedstreaming.com

Free Resources

Google Earth combines satellite

imagery, maps and the power of
Google Search to put the world's
geographic information at your
fingertips. View exotic locales like
Maui and Paris as well as points of
interest such as local restaurants,
hospitals, schools, and more.

http://earth.google.com/
Archive.org
CreativeCommons.org
Librivox.org
.many more

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Google Earth Quick Start User Guide

1.

Search Panel- Use to find places and

directions

2.

Ov erv iew Map- Use for an additional

perspective

3.

Hide/Show sidebar- Click to conceal or

display side bar

4.

Placemark- Click to add a placemark

5.

Polygon- Click to add a polygon

6.

Path- Click to add a path

7.

Image Ov erlay- Click to add an image

8.

Measure- Click to measure distance

9.

Email- Click to email view or image

10.

Print- Click to print current view

11.

Nav igation Controls- Use to tilt, zoom

and move

12.

Layers Panel- Use to display points of

interests

13.

Places Panel- Use to locate, save, and

organize placemarks

14.

3D View er- View the globe and terrain

15.

Status Bar- View streaming

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Adding Placemarks

First Things First

Create a Folder
(Ctrl+Shift+N)

This will help us

keep our placemarks
organized.

Other
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Network

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Adding Placemarks
2. Add Placemark (Ctrl+Shift+P)

To change the placemark

icon, click the icon to the
right of the placemark
name.

To include a description
type in the white box.

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Network

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Adding Placemarks to play video

Adding Sounds or Video from
free sites

1.

Find media online

2.

Click to Stream.

3.

As it streams Right Click,

then click properties, and
copy location.

4.

Paste in Google Earth

Placemark Description box.

Adding Video from fee sites

(unitedstreaming)
a.

Right Click on play icon

b.

Copy short cut.

c.

Paste in Placemark Description

box.

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http://www.archive.org/video/28786/p
rg28786_256k.asf

http://www.archive.org/video/28786/prg2878
6_256k.asf
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Adding Placemarks to play audio

Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts
1.

Find media, stories, sounds, etc., online

2.

Click to Stream.

3.

As it streams Right Click screen, then click

properties, and copy location. Or, if the URL is
available, copy the location from the browser.

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Adding Placemarks to play audio

Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts

4.

Copy location from Properties window or from the

web address line in the browser (e.g., Explorer)

5.

Paste in Google Earth Placemark Description

box.

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Adding Image Overlays

There are two kinds Image Overlays:
From the Web - works anywhere in
the world
From your hard drive - works only
on your computer

To add an Image Overlay

press (Ctrl+Shift+O) or
from the menu bar click
Add then Image Overlay

Web - Right Click on web

image, then click
properties and copy and
paste address. (Note:
Make sure you get all
correlating lines of the
address)

Hard Drive - Browse to the

folder with images. (Note:
Dont move them later!)

Adjust green box to

desired image size

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address
the link box

Other
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Look for Quizzes or Assignments on the web start with google.com/educators

Geography Awareness Quiz

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Add Quizzes or Assignments -in unitedstreaming

In addition to videos, you can also add quizzes and
assignments to your placemark

To find quizzes or assignments go to unitedstreamings

Quiz and Assignment Builder located in the Teacher Center.

Now you can create your own or search

If you search, simply
copy the quiz or
assignment into your
folder in My Content
Go to My Content and open
the quiz. It will open the Quiz
Summary and you can
simply copy the URL

Return to Google Earth and open the Properties box of

your placemark
Type some text in the Description box and paste your
url.
Now, when you click on the placemark icon your text
will appear with the link to the quiz or assignment

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Fly Over and Saving

Other
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When you are ready to save your file.

Highlight your folder, then click on File
Save Save Place as

This will save it as a .kmz. This small

file can easily be emailed.

When someone opens the .kmz file,

Google Earth will automatically be
launched or users will be encouraged to
download the program.

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To fly over all your place marks click,

highlight your folder and click the play
button.
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Ruler

To find out distance

traveled, from the menu
bar select Tools then
Ruler

By clicking different points

with your mouse you can
create a line or a path.

To convert units of
measure select from the
drop down menu.

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Preferences: Touring

You can control

the flying speed

You can control

or eliminate
pauses

You can repeat

the tours (for
Open House)
or reinforcement

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You can open

information
balloons on tours

NetworkControl Driving Tours here

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Preferences: 3D View and others

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Layers: Turning them on or off

Layers: Featured
Content

Discovery Video
layer has free
video!
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Layers: 3D Buildings

Other

To turn on 3D buildings, go
down to the Layers
menu and check 3D
Buildings

For added fun, zoom in, tilt

your screen and fly
through the streets

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Layers: Earthquakes

In the Layer menu under

Geographic Features is a
check box for
Earthquakes

When you enable this icon,

images will be displayed of
the locations of a variety of
earthquakes. Click on Other
the
icon to see date,
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magnitude, and a weblink.

To view several
earthquakes along a fault
line type in Area 51 inNetwork
the
fly to box.

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Community

For extra help, support, and unique and interesting

places, visit the Google Earth Community under the
Help menu.
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Find Businesses

To look for
businesses (i.e.
Starbucks, Pizza
Parlors) in a
particular location,
type in the name of
the company, city or
zip code and enter.

You will be able to

find reviews,
addresses, phone
numbers, and even
get directions.

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You Dont Have to be Live!

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You can use a screen capture

program to record the tours and
features in Google Earth. The
high end versions of Google
Earth work well (but take LOTS
of RAM). You can use screen
capture software to record the
action in Google Earth and save
it as a video file.

Windows - SnagIt
Techsmith.com

Mac - Snapz Pro

Ambrosia Softward

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QuickTime file of GoogleEarth tour.

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You Dont Have to be Live!

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Launch Google Earth.

Launch the screen capture

program. (Snapz Pro shown on
Mac)

Choose Movie option.

Draw movie window over section

of screen to capture.

Start the movie capture. Do what

you want in Google Earth. Stop
the capture when done. Thats it!

Bonus: Pull into a video

authoring program and take out
pauses, speed up or slow down
video action, and add music or
narrative. Try iMovie (Mac),
Adobe Premiere Elements (PC)
or MovieMaker (wmv files)

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Additional Resources
In addition to the great resources provided by unitedstreaming and Google, these other
resources are exemplary media sites.
Sounds & Sound Effects

Speeches and Narrations

http://www.findsounds.com/

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/

http://www.smartsound.com/
http://www.naturesongs.com/

http://www.archive.org/index.php

http://soundamerica.com/

www.librivox.org

Videos

www.gutenberg.org

http://www.kitzu.org/

http://creativecommons.org/audio/

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Lets share other sources you use?

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

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Pictures
www.pics4learnin g.com

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Others

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http://tinyurl.com/

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