Experience Google Earth

If you haven't experienced Google Earth yet, I would highly recommend it. I find myself visiting the site frequently to go on virtual tours around the world. Google's satellite imagery-based mapping program brings the whole world to your desktop. I recently did a search for shipwrecks. It amazing the detail you get at different locations around the world.

The next step is how to incorporate Google Earth in your classroom. I found a link for educators in Google Earth at Google For Educators. From this link there are many resources and ideas. One this page there is a link to Getting Started. This gives you the simple steps to download Google Earth to your desktop. Step number 6 "Check out the education gallery for ideas for using Google Earth in the classroom." Be sure to check out this link. You will be amazed of how easily it is to incorporate Google Earth in your classroom.

Complete list of links:

1. Google Earth for Educators: http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html
   
2. Getting Started Guide: http://www.google.com/educators/start_earth.html
   
3. Education Gallery: http://earth.google.com/outreach/edu_culture.html

FLASH!

This link was sent to me by a friend.
Take a look at this website: http://producten.hema.nl/ (Make sure the sound is turned on).

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam. Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany.

The site must have been painstakingly made with Flash!