Google Earth Tour Creator

A new tool from Google, which has been trialled by a few folks. It's the Tour Creator.
Apparently it's easy to make 3D tours from my computer, so let's see...

For an early look, and a link to some examples, Richard Treves has been quick off the mark, and posted here.

Teachmeet at the RGS - Part 3

Was great to see Daniel Raven Ellison for a coffee and catch-up before we wandered up to the RGS Teachmeet.
He's been doing work with CISCO and he brought his EEG headset that he's been wearing as he walks across all the cities and National Parks in the country. I was hoping to catch up with some of the Twitter teachers that I've 'talked to' virtually but not face to face.
Leading the event from the front and keeping the timings going meant I didn't have as much time for that as I hoped, and also had to leave before the end, so missed the last couple of presentations. If you follow the link to the Dropbox here, you can access most of the presentations.

There were a few more elements that you can read about in previous posts on the blog.
Hopefully the event will run again next year, and I can enjoy a slightly less stressful evening just listening to other people presenting… although I probably won't be able to help myself offering a presentation...
I'm sure David Rogers has it in mind to run again.

The next Teachmeet I'll be attending will be the GA Conference Teachmeet which will be at the GA Conference, before the Beermeet.
Booked my hotel yesterday and already looking forward to it.

I've also had confirmation already of 2 workshops that I'll be presenting on the Friday of conference.

FieldScapes

Thanks to Richard Treves for the introduction to this.
It formed part of his presentation at the RGS Teachmeet (of which more in recent posts)

Here's an example:

Google Earth Olympics Venue Tour idea...

Richard Treves has shared a nice idea for keeping that Olympic/Paralympic spirit alive when you return to school...
It's an idea for using the Touring and Historical slider features of Google Earth to explore the Olympic Park.
Check it out HERE.
One to consider for the first few weeks back and Geography 'Boot camp' skills activities before getting stuck into the meat of the curriculum that you have planned...

It's perhaps not too early to start thinking about future major sporting events which might gain from a post-Olympics interest in such things...
How about: