MetalToad

MetalToad have a very useful Flickr / Google Earth style thing...
Download the KML file, and it produces a feed of photos which have been Geotagged on Flickr, and shows them in their actual location.
Here's a nice example that was taken in Norwich...
Check it out !

SAGT Presentation Slides 21-24

How to customise placemarks continued...

Many people would only ever use the pushpin version. Click on the pushpin, right click for properties for the changes that you can make.The image of bicycles is hosted on Flickr. Had a comment posted on it, which said that someone had had their bike stolen from that particular bikeshed.

Noel Jenkins and Gavin Richards have both posted examples of how to customise placemarks to add other digital content.
A close up view of the Google Moon, while I took a picture of the audience...

SAGT Presentation Slides 41-44

How to add the Favela picture ? Using FLICKR to host the image. FLICKR also allows the use of notes on images to add more detail. Students could be asked to add notes to images. Perhaps as tracing or OHT overlays, or using callouts in Word if FLICKR is blocked (as it is at my school)



This is a movie flight around Old St Helens. Movies are best done in the form of a tour as the flight can then be controlled and the views that are required can be set up in advance.