1. Where is it? A Google Earth-PowerPoint-YouTube Geography Guessing Game
In this assignment, you will need to create a slideshow providing five individual topics addressing a single theme. Each topic will involve three slides. Each slide contains information copied and pasted from GE and the Internet.
In a nutshell, there are 5 steps:
In this assignment, you will need to create a slideshow providing five individual topics addressing a single theme. Each topic will involve three slides. Each slide contains information copied and pasted from GE and the Internet.
In a nutshell, there are 5 steps:
1. Choose a specific theme that is fun and will work with GE Images.
2. For each of five topics within your theme, find GE images and Wikipedia content copy/pasting into PowerPoint.
3. Convert the PowerPoint to a movie.
4. Title the movie GoogleEarthPPT [your topic]
5. Upload your movie to YouTube making sure it is public and titled correctly.
For each of the five PowerPoint topics within you theme, include at least the following three slides:
1. The first slide of each topic will be a screen shot [edit>copy image] from GE highlighting a recognizable feature on the earth’s surface. The features can be natural or man-made. Make the picture cover the entire slide. Please turn OFF all layers so there are no names or other text clues as to where the image is from. The Terrain layer is fine to leave on.
2. The second slide will be a picture of the GE feature using an Internet link embedded within GE or from another source. To use the GE lick on the small boxes indicating photo links until you find one you like. Then go to the actual picture, copy it, and paste it in the PowerPoint slide. Include a small hyperlink to the website hosting the picture, and a prominent title naming the feature.
3. The third slide will contain some text about the earthly feature you pictured. Wikipedia is a good source. Copy and paste text into a textbox into the third slide. Try to keep the amount of text to 100 words or fewer. Also, edit the text so you present what you want, not necessarily exactly what you copied. I suggest pasting the text into a Word document for adjustments, then copying and pasting it into the PowerPoint slide. As above, include a small hyperlink to the website hosting the text, and a title for the block of text.
Once the basic content of your PowerPoint has been included, use the other features of PowerPoint to embellish the presentation including transitions, sounds (if you want), and use the drawing tools to frame or highlight your pictures, text, links, etc. Also create an interesting title slide with a catchy theme name. Include your name.
When you are pleased with your PowerPoint, convert it to a movie. On the Mac side, you can use the save as option choosing .mov.
On the PC side, you will need to save your PowerPoint as .jpg images. Then upload the .jpg images into MovieMaker. Adjust the timing of the slides, and save as a movie.
Once you have the movie file, change its name using the naming convention noted above and upload it to YouTube. Check to make it works, and it’s not a private video.
2. Your Google Earth Tour
This exercise is to create a google earth tour that can be shared through a .kmz file. The steps are as follows:
1. Decide on a place in google earth where you can make an interensting ~30 second tour.
2. Watch the video below.
3. Practice your tour before recording it so it is smooth and predictable. Then record it as shown in the video. Two things, though. Begin your tour in space, and also make at least one big jump to somewhere else (as opposed to just beginning and ending in downtown Missoula). Turn on 3-D buildings if it helps.
4. The last part of the video shows where the tour is located in the sidebar of google earth. If you right-click on the tour, a drop-down menu will give you the choice to "save place as... Select that choice, give your tour an appropriate name, and then upload the file into the disucssion forum titled "Your Google Earth Tour." Include a few words about the making of your tour along with the .kmz file.
3. From Birth to Missoula
Using Google Earth, make an image of the route between where you were born to Missoula, MT.
The steps here include:
1) Select "Directions" in the tab on the sidebar of google earth. Then enter the city of your birth in the 'From' box, and missoula in the 'To' box. Click the magnifying glass.
2. Declutter the image if needed. Turn off all layers except 'borders and labels'.
3. Turn off (unclick, deselect, etc.) all directions except the first one, 'arrive at:' and 'route.'
4. Use the edit menu to copy the image. Then paste the image into an application that works with images like picture manager (windows) or preview (mac). Save (or export) the image as a .jpg using an appropriate name.
5. For those students in 370, please use the "Picture" gadget on your blog to upload your picture to you blog. Use a large gadget, not a small sidebar one. And name your picture "Birth to Missoula"
And finally, in less time that it will take you to scroll back to the top of this page to see if I wrote that there were only three activities, you could click on a link below to learn about some useful, educational and inspiring uses for Google Earth across the curriculum.
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