I had a lot of fun in class this week. We learned how to make Google Earth tours. Google Earth is just really fun to play around with. It is a great interactive view of the world. I never made a tour before, and I didn't even know what they were before this. We had to make a tour of at least 5 different places, and had to include pictures on each of them, and links on two of them. I ended up putting links on each of my places. Also, our tour had to be educationally relevant, and it had to be in Oregon. I chose to make my tour of geologic places of interest in Lake County because that's where I grew up, and I love the area. I had a lot of fun creating it, and finding out a few new facts about some of the places I've seen my whole life.
I think Google Earth and tours in Google Earth could have so many different educational applications. A tour could be a really good introduction to a unit. It could give just a few facts about what students would learn during the unit. Also, I thought it would be a great tool to use with students when they learn about the Oregon Trail, or any migration route for that matter. I think it would help make those routes and times more accessible for children because they tend to have trouble understanding events that took place so far a way, and far back in history. I think it could be used by the teacher or the students. Students could be given segments of a route, and include information at different stopping points. Then they could present their segments to see the route as a whole.
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