Task

The task that other FLE students willl attempt is to use Google Earth to create a short tour of three locations. The task will include:

1. Three locations with placemarks
   
2. A brief written description of each location with an image (taken from the internet)
   
3. Audio
4. Saving the tour to hard-drive
5. Uploading the tour using Google Docs
6. The tour will be put through a 'gadget' in order to get the html code which will enable the tour to be embedded on a web page (such as this blog)

I have made Jing clips which cover each step of the task. I expect this task to take a couple of hours.

Before starting the task, you need to go here to download the lastest version of Google Earth (its free). There are several tools and functions that this version of Google Earth has to offer, including: navigating, directions, layers, places, measuring and site-seeing. All of these tools are easy to use and can be effectively used in a lesson for almost any subject.

The next post is an introduction to the basics of Google Earth through a YouTube clip. To see this post click here or click on the Basics of Google Earth page at the top left corner of this blog.