Using Google Earth for Geographical Enquiry

Attended the workshop by Paul Cornish on the use of Google Earth for Geographical Inquiry during the Humanities Educators' Conference 2012. Would definitely try this out - maybe for Kalimantan but need to find the resources first. Definitely good for self-directed and collaborative learning.
You can find out more from http://www.gecpd.com/p/ga-conference-2012.html

Rosewood Enquiry

Multimedia Geography through Google Earth from Paul Cornish

Embedding

Google Earth is constantly connected to the internet and constantly ‘streams’ satellite images. This gives the opportunity to create a ‘window’ in a place mark, and view photos, video and listen to audio hosted on other sites through the use of simple HTML code. 

Embedding Photos

From Flickr.com (photo sharing website):

1. In GE, create a place mark
2. Find the photo you want to use and  click ‘Share’
3. Copy the HTML code
4. Paste into the place mark
5. Name the place mark  accordingly and add text
6. Snapshot view

Embedding Video

From Youtube or Vimeo (video sharing websites):

1. In GE, create a place mark
2. Find the video you want to use and  click ‘Share’ and then ‘embed’
3. Copy the HTML code
4. Paste into the place mark
5. Name the place mark accordingly and add text.
6. Choose angle and snapshot view

Embedding Audio

From Audioboo.fm (audio sharing website):

1. Use the Audioboo website to search for audio or create your own using the iPhone app.
2. In GE, create a place mark
3. Find the audio and click ‘embed’    
4. Click ‘more options’ and choose ‘if all else fails’
5. Copy the HTML code
6. Paste into the place mark
7. Name the place mark accordingly and add text
8. Choose angle and snapshot view

Snapshot View

A snapshot view enables Google Earth to zoom into a pre-chosen angle to show video, photo or audio files

 1. Choose the angle and altitude for your place mark

2. Either right click on the file in the ‘places menu’ or right click on the    

    place mark

3. Click ‘snapshot view’

Collaborative Learning using Geographical inquiry:

This is the Rosewood enquiry by Paul Cornish - make sure you have Google Earth installed and you can open the following files- /Rosewood Enquiry.kmz
I tried this out myself and did one on Kalimantan -Kalimantan Deforestation.kmz

I have listed below how I created the Kalimantan file:

Open up Google Earth ( you can download it free from http://www.google.com/earth/index.html)

Right click on My Place and a pop up window will appear – click on “Add”  followed by “ folder”

Click on the icon placemark.

A pop-up box will appear and you can copy the html code from your source – e.g. youtube as shown below.  You can drag the placemark to the location or just type in the latitude and longitude.

Right click on your folder and then click “ save place as..” – it will be saved as a kmz file.

One example shared by a UK teacher on Mt St Helen - click on the link below to download the kmz file-http://www.4shared.com/file/1uTWGnUq/Mt_St_Helens_Case_Study.html%20