ICT in my Classroom

Google Earth is fantastically visual and the kids love it when we quickly zoom back to earth from afar. But we are missing so much! So I decided to slow things down. I basically changed the Fly-To speed settings, from the Tools menu>Options>Touring. I reduced the speed as much as I could using the slider.

Now with a much slower zoom you have the ability as a teacher to reflect on what you see – so if we are zooming in from space I am able to talk about the continents we can see and then countries and regions. It just gives you and the kids much more time to take in the view!

An added bonus is that the aerial photography has slightly longer to load up and will be blurry for less time. Remember that if you fly to your planned placemarks prior to work with the children then the aerial photo data is cached and will load much quicker.

Anyway – enjoy the view.