Monday, September 24, 2012

Google Earth

For this assignement, I downloaded Google Earth and was able to upload my Google Map of the Mayhem Tour. I was able to take a virtual tour of each venue which was amazing!!

I have used Google Earth before but not quite like this, usually just to show people my house from a satelite view to see if you could see my truck or who was parked outside. Nothing really to this extent, which made this assignement really enjoyable.



In order to upload my Google Map into Google Earth, I had to copy the KML link. I opened my google map browser, found the map that I created and copied the KML link which was listed below.

With a little help from the internet, I found that a KML file is "Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers" Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 

After searching through Google Earth for Educators, I could not seem to find anything relating to Physical Education or Health related topics. One of my hobbies has always been drawing so I searched through the Fine Arts and found an web-based lesson plan incorporating Google Earth the Great Moments In Art.





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