Diving Into Google Earth

     Here's another Google product that various teachers should really dive into:  Google Earth.  Most teacher's have heard of and may have even used Google Earth but many do not know about its increasingly integrated approach to search and find via the geographic interface.  All sorts of items can be "found" on the planet, now, looking for them where you would/should look for them.  Go to the place and look there for what you would want to find there.  This is true from Civil War battlefields to reports on weather pattern interactions in a region based on all sorts of physics, meteorology, etc.  This is also true of Google Maps as they begin to integrate the abilities of both of these programs.  If it is in Google Earth, Google appears (I predict) that it will be in Google Maps, eventually.  (This is already hinted in as it appears Google Earth may be moving towards a web-based application--you won't have to install it, just go to it on the internet.)  Google keeps pushing the boundary when it comes to looking for things where they should be, and this approach should be especially interesting as they broaden its abilities past terra-firma and the skies, now they have literally jumped into the marine.  There is a great video from Google introducing this new feature.  Get past the campiness and it is actually really neat.  And I mean caammmmpppy!

     Here's a video that introduces two other features that should make any teacher drool, especially the history teachers!  If you haven't been using Google Earth, get it!  (Hint:  Why not look up BCS back when this teacher graduated!  Its there!)

Do you use Google Earth regulariy in class, how?  What has worked, what has not?  Let us know in the comments!