1. How Do You Google The Earth? Tee Clarkson and Greg Metcalf Deep Run High School Henrico County Public Schools

2. Our Goals! Support while you learn and discover. Time to explore and consider the possibilities of this powerful program. Leave with information you can use. Positive, productive experience for all participants.

3. Who’s In the Room? Informal survey of the audience. Hard copy handouts URL for this presentation (with access to many files useful in Google Earth) http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/deeprun/me tcalf_g/EdTech2008/EdTechSchedule.html http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/deeprun/me tcalf_g/EdTech2008/EdTechSchedule.html

4. Why Google Earth? “Virtual Globe” > geospatial data Interactive and Engaging New emerging technology (GoogleMaps) Easy to Customize and Enhance Multi-platform > Mac, PC or Linux Free! (www.earth.google.com)

5. General Approach A brief overview of content and then TIME to explore those features within Google Earth. Launch Google Earth, a few tips and then time to explore!

6. Google Earth Basics Navigation Using Tools Navigation Using Mouse Controlling the Tool Bar Turning On Layers Using the “Fly To” feature (very quickly…)

7. Time to Explore Running Clock 15:00 Tee and Greg work the room Ask questions, share ideas together!

8. Questions & Observations? First Section > Basics and Navigation

9. Customizing Google Earth: Creating Placemarks Need information on the back side of the handout. Access the web site (slide 3) for files. Content and demo Time to explore and create own placemarks

10. Adding Image Overlays Use the Add Menu (need an image) Tricky to size and fit on the earth Brief overview and time to experiment

11. Closing, Evaluations and THANKS! Tee Clarkson tsclarkson@henrico.k12.va.us Greg Metcalf grmetcal@henrico.k12.va.us