Steve+Goldberg

//News Around the World: Building Understanding and Engagement with Google Earth//

 * Steve Goldberg, Triangle Learning Community, Durham, NC**

In this 70-minute session, participants will learn how to make Google Earth place marks and tell stories that bring to life events from around the world. Each participant will make at least three place marks, and we will share the place marks we make with one another.

The premise behind this session is that if students (of any age -- I’m assuming we’re all life-long learners who will model this behavior for our students back home) start reading the news and recording the articles we read, we will develop a broader global database and expand our international horizons. It also becomes a habit of engaging with the world.


 * If possible, participants should download Google Earth onto their computers before the session -- it's available free online at earth.google.com

Steve will first model how to use Google Earth to bring to life a variety of news events and/or stories from around the world.

Google Earth is a powerful storytelling tool, and can be useful for understanding events from China to Ethiopia to the protests in Egypt's Tahrir Square.

We will start by looking at the world's largest swimming pool (pictured below), because what student would __not__ want to see that? (it's 11 football fields long, according to the measuring tool on Google Earth, which we will also learn to use in the session).



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Extensive material about Steve's pre-conference presentation is available in a shared Google Doc that you can access at [|__bit.ly/iSummit__]