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.

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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...

Google Earth now available for the iPhone

The title says it all really....

Also on iPod Touch.

Thanks to Ollie Bray for the tip off on this one.

3 wonderful manuals for Google Earth

This is very helpful.

There are 3 manuals at Jamie Buchanan Dunlop's DIGITAL EXPLORER site now.

The first 2 are training manuals from Jamie's excellent courses, the third is a manual for using tools for doing FIELDWORK ON THE SCHOOL GROUNDS.

Google Earth Antarctica Food Web

Thanks to Jamie Buchanan Dunlop for passing on information about a new addition to the Discovering Antarctica website: a FOOD WEB ACTIVITY with Google Placemarks.
See it HERE.

Navigation Buttons in Placemarks

A couple of weeks ago, had a very interesting demo of Google Earth, and since then have been trying to find time for writing it up. While in the middle of doing that, I came across another interesting development.

This video by John Gardiner explains how to add navigation buttons into placemarks, so that users can work through a series of placemarks in order...



Going to have to have a go at this when I get a chance. One for February 2009 when I'm leading a Google Earth day....

Ollie Bray's SAGT Workshop

Ollie Bray is presenting a workshop at SAGT at the weekend

Here's the blurb from the Conference programme:

The ‘How To….?’ of Google and Geography
Ollie Bray, Deputy Head Teacher at Musselburgh Grammar School

Following the success of previous SAGT Conferences Ollie Bray returns and continues to pick up the theme of ‘small ideas change things’. This year’s presentation will focus on the use of Google Maps and Google Earth in the classroom.

This will not be an Advanced Google Earth Workshop although conference delegates wanting to find out more about GPS and Google Earth tours will be shown a number of examples and sent in the right direction. The main focus of this presentation is to show how Google Earth and Google Maps can be used in practically every Geography lesson. The seminar will include lesson starters, assembly ideas, assessment methods, plenary sessions, hacks, mashups and problem solving activities. Most importantly the session will share developed, tried and tested ideas that have been used, experimented with and successfully evaluated from P6 – S6.

Studies of Google Sky, Google Earth Layers, Google Street View, the Google 3D Buildings and Google Custom Maps will also be covered.

As with previous conferences Ollie will link the presentation into the experiences and outcomes of A Curriculum for Excellence and explore how the concept of place does not just fit into the Social Subjects outcomes.
All delegates will have access to a comprehensive on-line handout and be given the opportunity to carry on the discussion via an on-line community after the conference.
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Ollie Bray is Deputy Head Teacher at Musselburgh Grammar School & Geography subject support coordinator for East Lothian. He has won numerous awards for classroom practice & project development, including a Royal Geographical Society Innovative Teaching Award, two Learning and Teaching Scotland ICT Enhancement Awards & a Microsoft / SQA Partners in Learning Award. He has contributed to the publication of four textbooks and various other on-line and off line resources. Recently he became one of the first teachers in Scotland to be appointed as a CEOP Ambassador (Child Exploitation Online Protection Agency). Ollie is a member of the Association of Outdoor Learning, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a full member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors (AMI). His learning log can be found at www.olliebray.com




Check out OLLIE'S BLOG after the event for all the details, and the presentation that he will use.