Nov 24 2008

Google Earth is our Paper – Part 2: Add your Voice

Published by under Google Earth,Literacy,Mapping

Your talent scouting has hopefully provided you with a great location for your class narrative and perhaps you have even plotted the journey the main protagonists will take during the tale. What’s next? Today we continued our Google Earth storytelling as we added audio to the placemarks.  In my opinion children’s writing, whether digital or [...]

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Nov 23 2008

Google Earth is our Paper – Part 1: Find a location, Begin a journey

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This is a series of posts about the use of Google Earth as a platform for my students to write. It was first inspired by the 21 Steps by Charles Cumming highlighted by Ewan McIntosh in a seminar at the Scottish Learning Festival. For a while I have been keen to take advantage of, and further [...]

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Feb 20 2008

Google Earth Tips – Sharing good practice

I hope that some of you have enjoyed reading the 33 Interesting Ways (and tips) to use your Interactive Whiteboard. The Google presentation continues to grow as people contribute, the last three tips are titled: #31 – Snap it! (using the SMART capture tool) #32 – Check by order (self checking method using the layering [...]

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