Google Earth and Google Docs Resources by Lynne Schalman and Steve Bergen (you can e-mail us both at ) Last revised 12/23/07

Google Docs

• Teaching Collaborative Revision with Google Docs
• Video on how Google Docs works ... shared by Raul on NYCIST

Links

• Download Google Earth software for free from here
• Click here for Lessons from a guy named David who teaches elementary school in Central Florda
• Click here for files at Columbia
• Click here for Google Lit Trips
• Click here for OGLE Earth
• Click here for info from Shambles
• Click here for info from Scholastic
• Click here for info from eMINTS

Tips

• Go to google and do an an advanced search, specifying KML files ... KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language ... click ... "Keyhole was the name of the application before Google bought it and added their own features and larger databases"
• Go to google and do an an advanced search, specifying KML files ... KMZ stands for KML-Zipped. "It is the default format for KML because it is a compressed version of the file" ... click for source