A Good Google Earth Tour Builder Tutorial

Google Earth Tour Builder is a slick tool that Google introduced a couple of months ago. Tour Builder is a browser-based tool for creating G...

Video - How to Create Tours With Google Earth Tour Builder

Earlier this week Google released a great new tool for creating Google Earth tours. Tour Builder makes it easier than ever to create Google...

Tour Builder Makes It Easier Than Ever to Create Google Earth Tours

Google Earth is a great tool for students to use to explore the world. Building tours in Google Earth and Google Maps is one of my favorite ...

Coral Reefs and Math

This evening I stumbled upon a set of National Geographic illustrations depicting coral reef food webs . Students can scroll through the set...

How to Create Placemarks and Tours in Google Earth

This evening Jim Wells and I will be teaching the first installment of To Geography and Beyond With Google Earth and Google Maps . One of th...

3 Ways to Explore Marine Life in Google Earth

Google Earth is a great tool for exploring many aspects of geography. One of the features of Google Earth that seems to be frequently overlo...

Take a Google Earth Tour of the Largest Intact Boreal Forest on Earth

This morning I went poking around the Google Earth tour showcase looking for information about hurricanes. Although I didn't find what ...

Google Earth Tour of James Cook's Exploration of Australia

Well-constructed Google Earth tours can be excellent multimedia alternatives to textbooks. One such example of this is a collection of Googl...

AudioViator - Free Audio Tours of Cities and Landmarks

AudioViator is an excellent collection of audio tours of cities and landmarks all over the globe. All of the tours that I previewed are Cre...

Tuna and Terns - View Their Migrations in Google Earth

I've featured some resources from the Encyclopedia of Life in the past ( here and here ) and today I'd like to point out a couple o...

Google Earth Skills Quiz and Tutorials

This afternoon while trying to remember how to perform a small task in Google Earth I was forced to admit defeat and consult the Google Ear...

Learning About the Iditarod Sled Dog Race

The Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska starts tomorrow. The Iditarod presents teaching opportunities as it engages some students through ...

Virtual Tour on the Trans Siberian Railway

Google and the Russian Railways have partnered to create a virtual tour on the Trans Siberian Railway . The tour has a dedicated page on w...

Go Skiing With 2010 Winter Olympians

Just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics Google has added some really neat Street View imagery. According to a post on the Google Lat Long...

Explore the Ocean in Your Web Browser

Earlier this week Google announced the addition to Google Earth of some significantly improved ocean imagery. Today, Google announced that...

How to Make Placemarks and Tours in Google Earth

On Monday I shared a post titled Walking in Holden's Footsteps . In that post I mentioned that having students create Google Earth tours...

Virtual 3D Tours of the Winter Olympics

Today, Google announced the completion of 54 3D models of the 2010 Winter Olympic venues in Vancouver . You can view these models in Google...

Virtual Climb of Mount Everest

Last week, in advance of Discovery's Everest: Beyond the Limit series, I posted some information for teaching and learning about Moun...

Exploring Climate Change in Google Earth

Over the last few months, Google has been slowly building up a library of narrated Google Earth tours highlighting the impact of climate ch...

The "Yeti" and Digital Storytelling in Google Earth

Yesterday, the National Archives' RSS feed contained a neat document from 1959. The document was a letter from the government of Nepal...