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Customising Google Earth Placemarks

Alan Parkinson

November 2011

Over 1 BILLION downloads

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2005First saw Google Earth

Got in touch with Google and blagged a copy of Google ProApplied for Innovative Geography Teaching Grant from RGS-IBGDeveloped ‘Earth: a Users Guide’Led a session at SAGT Conference to over 100 delegatesUsed in teachingWrote article for ‘The Guardian’ on using it at start of lessonKeyhole Bulletin Board started to grow and share ideas…

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http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/index.php

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Google Outreach

Google Teacher Academy Google Schools Resources

Have tended to be versions of US-based materials and not very innovative.

This is slowly changing….

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Climate Change Tours

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Placemarks

In map view

Look for the icon

Yellow pushpin

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CUSTOM ICON

Image of school

Image of teacher

Image of person

ICON from other location ?

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http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/

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EDITING PROPERTIESRight click on a placemark

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PLACEMARK

HTML Coding

Knowing a few key tags will help

Tags end with < > and finish with </ >

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TEXT

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IMAGES

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GRAPHS

Create

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VIDEOS

All you need is the EMBED code from your particular video sharing website…

Check which ones might be usable in school.

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AUDIOhttp://www.vocaroo.com

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Using Google EarthCatlin Arctic Surveyhttp://oceans.digitalexplorer.com

New KS3 Geography Pack ready to download

GCSE Geography Pack coming soon

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GeoTrio – record your own audio tours of a location and make them available…