Take students on your own virtual tours

Google Earth's Tour feature allows anyone to create virtual tours and share them.

One can guide the tour using the software or export them as narrated video. Here's an example: continents and oceans. Also useful is the ability to share tours in native files, which means smaller files and full control of tours. Here's an example: 3D Castles:

Questions:

Is this a good way to teach geography?
And what are some possible applications and/or ways to make this bette?

Peace,

Mr. H

Tags: Earth, Google, geography, history, social, studies

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Permalink Reply by Channing Tan on September 8, 2010 at 6:13am

Absolutley ,I use this way in my class too.

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Permalink Reply by Ricardo on September 8, 2010 at 7:34pm

Cool. Thanks for replying. Question: Do you find yourself using this as a presentation tool, or do you create tours for students to follow on their own computers? I appreciate any tips you can share. -Mr. H

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Zimmer on February 16, 2012 at 2:11pm

I think this is an awesome idea. I could see this as attention grabbing for younger kids. Also, I would use this to teach history so students could see the area that is being discussed.