Google Earth

For today's assignment, we uploaded our Google Map activity into Google Earth to compare both programs.  In the Google Map activity, I created a literary tour of Massachusetts which showed a map full of pinpoints of various literary sites in MA as seen below.

For this activity, I uploaded the tour map into Google Earth by saving it to a KML file (a file made specifically for earth viewing software) and was able to view the actual places on the map in great detail as shown here or in the picture below.

In the picture above, you can't see as much detail because I took a screenshot of the entire map, but if you zoom in closely to one location you are able to view the site with much more detail. Check out the example below of the Longfellow Home and Historic Site.

In this activity, I was most excited to learn about the Google for Educators website that provides lesson plans and activities for Google apps. However, when I tried to find activities for Google Earth that pertained to the language arts field, I couldn't find any results.

Even though the website didn't provide any Google Earth ideas for my classroom, I still think it would be really useful for other Google Apps, like Google Docs.