This presentation was used in connection with a presentation at ISTE 2010 on Engaging Learners with Google Literature Trips

1. Engaging Learners
through Google Lit Trips

2. Look Closer

3. Look Closer

4. "If our students are not reading and
composing with various electronic
technologies, then they are
illiterate. They are not just
unprepared for the future, they are
illiterate right now, in our current
time and context.
(David Bolter, 1991)

5. Overview
Introduction
Format
Why Google Earth
History of Google Lit Trips
Survey of 5 Lit Trips / Features
Google Maps
Guided Creation Process
Curriculum Connections

6. Format

7. Format

8. Format

9. Format

10. Format

11. Format

12. Purpose
Learn how to develop integrated visual learning
experiences using Google Earth to create
Google Lit Trips.
To provide a tool set for teachers to engage
students in learning Google Earth's visual
geography tool. Participants will have created a
Google Literature Trip during the session.

13. Why Bother?
Engagement builds Understanding
- reading with purpose
Engaging with Technology
- 21st century tool
- not possible just 4 years ago
Integrating Cross Curricular Activities
Literature, Geography, History, Science,
Mathematics

14. Objectives
Expose teachers to tools that will engage students
in literature, introduce geography concepts, activate
background knowledge, and provide your students
access and exposure to the world around them.
Create a Google Literature Trip and make cross-
curricular connections.
We will explore the basics of Google Earth such as
navigation toolbar, measurement tools, featured
content, placemarks, and layers of information.
As a group, we will create a mini Lit Trip

15. Why Google Earth
making connections
activate prior knowledge
make connections
visual learners

16. Why Google Earth
Transformation...
making connections
activate prior knowledge
make connections
visual learners

17. Google Lit Trips.org

18. Your (students’)
Involvement
Observe Static Location
Navigate and Explore a Lit Trip
Enhanced Connections from Balloon
Create / Present
Story Tell

20. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/02/07/loc_hana.html

21. Navigation
Move, Fly, Tilt
Observe Latitude, Longitude
Arrows, Shift, Mouse, Grab
Check out Hana’s Suitcase

22. http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?
itemID=15678

23. Underground to
Canada
Barbara Smucker
http://flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/65672496/

24. Underground Google
Geography
to Canada Earth
Know
Want to
Know
Interested

25. Assessment for Learning
GE file could be quite easy if overlayed on
your master.
Allows for growth and change in a visual
way or Self Assessment
Non Linear - encourages us to not mark
every aspect
Identify misconceptions visually

26. Stone Heart
Charlie Fletcher

27. Most Features; however,
- limited number places per screen
- limited navigation
Google Maps
Most Features; however,
- WWW access
- easy collaboration

28. White Jade Tiger
Julie Lawson

29. Nisga’a Treaty

30. Making your own
resource
Next we will look at the creation process
through the lens of No Moon, No Milk by
Chris Babcock
http://www.chrisbabcockart.com/
index.html
http://www.amazon.com/No-Moon-Milk-
Chris-Babcock/dp/0517885409

31. The Power

32. HTML Primer
<a close all brackets> </a>
<img src="http://www.iste.org/AM/Graphics/
iste2010-logo.jpg">
<a href="http://iamliterate.wikispaces.com">See
Kevin's Website</a>

33. Place 1 & 2
1. Venice Beach
- Can you find waves?
2. Crater Lake National Park in Oregon
- How wide is the crater
- What is the circumference -
calculate / compare to measurement
- How tall are the sides?
- Do you have a story to tell (Voki.com)

34. As you create...

35. As you create...

36. Questioning
Bernie Dodge - WebQuests
• Consensus
• Retelling
building
• Compilation
• Persuasion
• Mystery
• Self-Knowledge
• Journalistic
• Analytical
• Design Task
• Judgment
• Creative Product
•Scientific

37. Place 3 & 4
3. Radio City Music Hall, NY
4. Central Park
- What is special about Central Park
- How far did Martha go from RCMH to
Central Park
- How fast was Martha likely traveling

38. SMOOT ??
He was used as a Fraternity Prank to measure
the Harvard Brindge in Oct 1958.
One Smoot is equal to Oliver Smoot's height at
the time of the prank (five feet and seven inches
~1.70 m)

39. American Museum
of
Natural History

40. Your Choices for
Literature

41. Extensions
Check out – Sky, Mars, Moon
Check out – Ocean Layer
Return to Gallery – Volcanoes, Weather
3D Building Maker
Street View
View in Google Maps
Save Place as KML and view as Text
Make a Movie – Tools menu – Movie Maker
Flight Simulator -
Keyboard shortcuts -

42. Guided Practice
Interuptions or ignor

43. Search
earth.google.com/gallery/
or
GE Gallery

44. Rulers
sketchup.google.com/
3dwarehouse/buildingmaker

45. Pause and Check
What could not have happened without
Google Earth?

46. Pause and Check
What could not have happened without
Google Earth?
Transformation...

47. Thank you
Please contact me
Kevin Amboe
kevinamboe@gmail.com
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