Final Project 2.0

Google Earth

Power Point

I posted a project earlier but i did not like it so here is my new one version 2.0.

The project that I decided to do was to show different sports from around the world. I used Google Earth and some of the features that it has and incorporated different technologies into the Google Earth software. This was my first time really working with Google Earth, there was a bit of a learning curve, some of the stuff in Google Earth is not the easiest thing to figure out. I had to do some trial and error test until I figured out what to do. The first thing I did was make place marks for the three countries that I am using, and that is pretty easy. After you make a place mark you can add stuff to the mark. First I added a video of the sport that I wanted to explain. At first I was going to use a PowerPoint to explain the sports a little bit, but I really didn’t like that because it was separate form the Google Earth and it really didn’t flow. So I decided to do some more research and started thinking if I could get the video to work because it was embedded maybe that could work for a PowerPoint. Well after many hours of trying I did not work I could not figure it out, but I did find a Website were you could type in what you wanted and it would turn it into HTML for you, so I was able to add a description to the Google Earth which I like way better. Then I wanted to do something to finish off the work. Google earth has a feature where you can overlay a picture so I decided to put maps of the countries on the map. And for this I used photo bucket to embed the picture into the map. The last thing I did was make the timing right. The place mark and overlay move at different timing so I used a screen shot, to freeze the picture so that both places are at the same spot.

I don’t think I could call myself an expert of Google earth yet, I was just using the basic version you have to pay to use the better version. I think if I spent some more time with Google Earth I could get to use more of the feature. I would really like to use the better versions of Google Earth just to see what the better features are. I think I can add this Google Earth to my above average knowledge list.

I think that a lot of different teachers can use Google Earth as a teaching aid if you spend the time to learn it and put it together it can be a really fun learning tool.