Google Earth Workshop
When:
Fri, Feb 5th, 2010, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
Join the Geo-Everything project for this unique event.
Workshop will focus on:
· Downloading, installing, and navigating in Google Earth
· Making basic and customized placemarks
· Working with data templates
· Embedding text, images, links, video, and audio
· Creating collaborative maps
· Incorporating Google Earth into the rhetoric and literature classroom
Description:
Google Earth is a free and easy-to-use software program for building maps and spatially representing many kinds of data -- text, images, audio, video -- that can be aligned with a geographic location. These maps are three-dimensional and dynamic, and readers can interactively zoom and rotate as well as add layers of information in order to view the mapped locations, called placemarks, from a variety of perspectives, from the local to the global. Within the rhetoric and literature classrooms, the software is useful for many kinds of writing. It facilitates invention, as students visually identify intriguing linkages; acts as a medium for visual writing, as students transform words into images; and encourages collaboration, as students work together to chart and connect meaningful locations, thus organically and/or deliberately synthesizing arguments.
DWRL Google Earth Workshop Handout
