South Ribble Network

Just been investigating the SOUTH RIBBLE materials on the CGEOG NETWORKING section of GEOGRAPHYTEACHINGTODAY.

Loads of good GOOGLE EARTH materials here....

Over 40 000 visitors....

Now well over 40 000 visitors to this blog.

Thanks for coming !

There's been quite an uptake in classrooms since the blog was started in the early days of Google Earth...

Geotagging your photos...

A very useful new post on GEOTAGGING images by David Holmes has been added to the GEOGRAPHYTEACHINGTODAY website in the fieldwork section.

Also a nice resource produced by Tom Barrett, who has been making some creative use of Google Earth for WRITING, and STORY TELLING....

Some ideas which hark right back to my GOOGLE EARTH classic from SAGT 2006....

SketchUp 7 launched

SketchUp 7 launched.

Via Lat Long Blog

River Severn: Source to Sea

Another nice piece of work discovered via TWITTER.

David Noble has put together a SOURCE to SEA trip by Flight Simulator down the RIVER SEVERN...

Part 1

Part 2

Climate Change

Climate Change layer from DEFRA
Climate Change impacts around the world...

Wildgoose Vista

Vista” – Our School Aerial Photography

Vista is brand new software from Wildgoose, an update of the “Aerial” software containing colour vertical aerial photography, site-centred on your school together with Land-Line data. The viewer allows the user to navigate around the image in any direction as well as zoom in or out to view the area at different scales.

Students can draw over the top of the photography, creating their own maps by adding symbols, lines, polygons, text and labels. This can be printed out with the photographic data or as a separate layer.

Scale bars, north arrows, and title information are shown.

Students can set up their own projects about the school and the local area to incorporate text, photographs, video and sound into user-generated hotspots.
Ordnance Survey Land-Line data can be overlaid on the photography.

4-6 or 8-figure co-ordinate references are displayed on screen together with Latitude and Longitude.

The software has many levels of functionality which makes it equally

Suitable for primary and secondary schools.

Wildgoose, Bluesky International Ltd
The Old Toy Factory
Jackson Street
COALVILLE
LE67 3NR
Phone: 01530 518568

Email: lynette@wildgoose.ac      Website: www.wildgoose.ac

Had demo of this yesterday. Good introductory GIS for Primary, Middle and Lower Secondary.

Google Earth as a GIS - 2

Something to explore: the SPREADSHEET MAPPER 2.0

The video takes you through the process step by step, or click the link for a tutorial page.

Google Earth as a GIS - some ideas - 1

This post has been made for a session that I am running at the Conference Centre, Priory Business Park, Bedford on Monday the 10th of November.

Here's the agenda for the day:

I am going to be using a range of materials - as you can see, I will be "standing on the shoulders of giants"....

More to come on my plans over the weekend as I pull things together...