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Google Earth: Spanish I and II

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Google Earth was a requirement this year as part of their "Country Presentation." Each student had an assigned country to research, then present for the class. The Google Earth requirement was to incorporate it as they choose, either a .jpg on a slide, a print on a poster, or a .kmz movie that launches Google Earth and records movement and place markers.

Tech Skills learned:
  • navigating Google Earth software, saving images, setting places, and recording short tours.
  • saving in different formats, saving to flash drives
  • making technical choices to fit their creative needs.
Benefits:
  • Students were visually engaged and excited about what they were seeing far beyond a map in a book
  • Students gained visual geography skills like locations on a globe, relative location to surrounding countries, land features, housing, etc.

Challenges:

  • IPrism needs login/password for full function, some skipped and then were locked out.
  • students shared computers, so not all got hands-on practice

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