1. Finally, Staggeringly Good Things Mixing Google Earth and Media
Hall Davidson Director, Discovery Educator Network

2. 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
Slide x Communities from Cindy Lane

3. Websites used in Presentation
Handouts at
Discoveryeducatornetwork.com (media matters blog)
This ppt. represents the work of Lance Rougeux, Jannita Demian, and others from the DEN, each of whom do great Google Earth presentations!

4. Websites used in Presentation

5. 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.
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.
Archive.org
CreativeCommons.org
Librivox.org
….many more
Free Resources

6. Google Earth Quick Start User Guide
Search Panel- Use to find places and directions
Overview Map- Use for an additional perspective
Hide/Show sidebar- Click to conceal or display side bar
Placemark- Click to add a placemark
Polygon- Click to add a polygon
Path- Click to add a path
Image Overlay- Click to add an image
Measure- Click to measure distance
- Click to view or image
Print- Click to print current view
Navigation Controls- Use to tilt, zoom and move
Layers Panel- Use to display points of interests
Places Panel- Use to locate, save, and organize placemarks
3D Viewer- View the globe and terrain
Status Bar- View streaming status

7. Adding Placemarks 80% First Things First
Create a Folder (Ctrl+Shift+N)
This will help us keep our placemarks organized.
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8. Adding Placemarks 80% Other 20% Network
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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9. Adding Placemarks to play video
Adding Sounds or Video from free sites
Find media online
Click to Stream.
As it streams Right Click, then click properties, and copy location.
Paste in Google Earth Placemark Description box. 1 2
Adding Video from fee sites (unitedstreaming)
Right Click on play icon
Copy short cut.
Paste in Placemark Description box.
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10. Adding Placemarks to play audio
Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts
Find media, stories, sounds, etc., online
Click to Stream.
As it streams Right Click screen, then click properties, and copy location. Or, if the URL is available, copy the location from the browser. 1 2
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11. Adding Placemarks to play audio
Adding Sounds, Stories, or Streaming Podcasts
Copy location from Properties window or from the web address line in the browser (e.g., Explorer)
Paste in Google Earth Placemark Description box.
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12. Adding Image Overlays 80% Other 20%
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: Don’t move them later!)
Adjust green box to desired image size
Paste image address in the link box
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13. Geography Awareness Quiz
Look for Quizzes or Assignments on the web - start with google.com/educators
Geography Awareness Quiz

14. 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 unitedstreaming’s 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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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 ed.
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.

16. 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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17. Control Driving Tours here
Preferences: Touring
You can control the flying speed
You can control or eliminate pauses
You can repeat the tours (for Open House) or reinforcement
You can open information balloons on tours
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Control Driving Tours here
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18. Preferences: 3D View and others

19. Layers: Turning them on or off
Layers: Featured Content
Discovery Video layer has free video!

20. Layers: 3D Buildings 80% Other 20% Network
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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21. Layers: Earthquakes 80% Other 20% Network
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 the icon to see date, magnitude, and a weblink.
To view several earthquakes along a fault line type in “Area 51” in the fly to box.
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22. Community
For extra help, support, and unique and interesting places, visit the Google Earth Community under the “Help” menu.

23. Find Businesses 80% Network
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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24. You Don’t Have to be Live!
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.

25. You Don’t Have to be Live!
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. That’s 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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26. Additional Resources
In addition to the great resources provided by unitedstreaming and Google, these other resources are exemplary media sites.
Sounds & Sound Effects
Videos
Pictures
g.com
Others
Speeches and Narrations
Let’s share other sources you use?
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