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Exploration = Education, my new motto This is a guest post by Google Certified Trainer and Innovator, Stacy Behmer. I had the privilege of attending the Google Geo Institute (#CAGTI17) with approximately 90 other educators from around the world last week to learn more about Google’s Geo Tools! I loved using maps with my studentsContinue Reading

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10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your ClassroomExploration = Education, my new motto

This is a guest post by Google Certified Trainer and Innovator, Stacy Behmer.

I had the privilege of attending the Google Geo Institute (#CAGTI17) with approximately 90 other educators from around the world last week to learn more about Google’s Geo Tools! I loved using maps with my students and used Google Earth, but my head was spinning with all of the ideas about how we can use the geo tools to help students learn about new places, solve problems, and tell stories!

We may not be able to physically go everywhere, but virtually the possibilities are limitless.

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10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

After thumbing through all my links and docs, here are 10 of my many takeaways!

1. New Google Earth

“Everything is something and everything has a place somewhere.” John Bailey, Google Geo Education Team. Google Earth is now web based and you can use Pegman and Street View within Google Earth, but you can go places that are off the beaten path and may not be on a street, like these monkeys in the see Street View of Himalayas. These 360 images can easily be embedded into a website or project students are creating.

2. Voyager

A new addition to Google Earth is the Voyager Experience! Go to Voyager and select the education tab. Google partnered with National Geographic and other organizations to build content and tell stories from around the world.

10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

3. My Maps

There is a power in students creating their own maps to help them visualize information or to tell a story an example of this is two students who collected the Oral Histories of Route 66 and displayed it on a Map. My Maps is can be used for students as they explore events in literature, historical events or even as they study current events. The beauty of My Maps is they are collaborative and can be exported to be brought in as a layer of Google Earth. Kim Randall, @scubagirl812 did a super session on Mapping Made Easy with Google My Maps!

10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

4. Tour Builder

This is another way for students to tell a story using a map! Drop pins, add images, video or text to share your virtual tour. Once a tour is created it can be shared to the gallery or exported as a KML file and added as a layer to Google Earth. Unfortunately, this doesn’t have the same collaborative features My Maps does, but the visual display and easy organization is really nice!

10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

5. Google Earth Engine

There are a lot of data sets out there and Google Earth Engine enables you to track, measure and visualize changes over time. You can look at water patterns and how the Earth’s surface has changed over time. Use the Time Lapse link to see how development is changing the landscape of your community. Being able to visualize the data and changes helps to have meaningful conversations with students.

10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

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6. Youvisit

Telling your story doesn’t always have to be linear! Thank you to Brooke Whitlow, @BWhitlowEdTech, for sharing Youvisit.com! This site lets you easily create an interactive virtual tour. You can capture your image via any 360 camera app or simply with a Theta 360 Camera (I have the Theta S) and then build your tour with hotspots to add information or highlight key features. Check out the tour that was shared with us by James Allen of the Eminence EDhub. My head is spinning with ideas about how students could not only create a virtual tour of their school but what about helping tell the story of their community and embedding historical events or what their community is known for?

7. Wikitude

Using Geo Tools to create Location Based AR- This is what excited me the most! Think, make your very own Pokemon Go! Big thanks to Micah Shippee, @micahshippee, for sharing how to use Wikitude to upload your MyMap pins to create your placemarks to get started, but if you want to have more than just text you need to create your placemarks using getech.com and then export them into Wikitude and use the Wikitude app on your mobile device. If you want to learn how to create your own here is Micah’s presentation. Below is a screenshot of my first location based AR using My Maps and Wikitude on the Google Campus!

10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

 

8. Metaverse AR

I love the idea of location based AR and having students move around and create it. Jeff Crews, @crewsertech, for showing a few of us Metaverse. This lets you build an series of interactive experiences and turn them into quests, so you can have a scene pop up on your phone when you are in the right location and answer a question or get a clue to move you onto the next location on the map! Building it on the web is slick with a series of drop downs and then you run the app and the icon will show up on your phone or tablet when you start the app! I’m already starting to work on building a quest for around our agency for new staff as part of our orientation Breakout EDU!

10 Google Geo Tools for the Classroom

The view from my phone with a question that appears.

9. Theta 360 & Street View

Props to Dean Phillips, @DeanPhillipsMT, for giving me a crash course of his Doing More with 360 session and walking me through how to use the Theta S to add to Google Street View. You can use the camera app within Street View or just connect the Theta to capture a 360 image in one click. The nice thing is you can publish your images for others to see and even stitch them together. Donnie Piercey, @mrpiercey, put together a really nice resource to help folks create their own Street View.

10. Google Expeditions

There were a couple of updates to Expeditions while we were in Mountain View, one is the first-person play experience, so students can go through an Expedition independently and see facts pop up for them or listen to information too. The other update is the ability for the guide device to add annotations on the 360 image!

There is also a Moonshot Incubator Project that takes Google Expeditions in Hawaii to another level with lesson plans and images to learn all about our 50th state.

Check out the Google Carboard and Expeditions Ultimate Resource Guide.

It was exciting to hear that the mission of Google Earth is what we do in our classrooms: “Explore everywhere. Learn about anywhere. Create experiences. Share stories.” These tools not only provide our students with opportunities to explore the world, but they are also able to capture their own images and share their stories with others! A huge shout out to John Bailey, Emily Henderson, @earthoutreach, and the amazing team of guides who facilitated the three days of learning!

Stacy Behmer

Stacy is a former elementary and middle school teacher and also spent some time as a district technology director. She is currently the Coordinator of Digital Learning from Grant Wood AEA in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she works with a team of technology consultants providing technology integration support and training to teachers and administrators. Stacy serves on the Iowa Technology Education Connection board which holds a couple of conferences and a series of workshops across the state promoting technology rich learning environments. She is a Google for Education Certified Innovator and Certified Trainer and enjoys learning from and with teachers and students new ways to incorporate technology in teaching and learning!  Feel free to connect with Stacy on Twitter or Google+.

 

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Google Apps for iOS The following is a list of Google Apps for iOS (from Google, Inc.). This list is exhaustive and includes several apps that are not on the infographic Guide to Google Apps for the iPad. Some of these have natural classroom integration, and some are more for personal or business use. Some areContinue Reading

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Google Apps for the iPad and iOS (Complete List)

Google Apps for iOS

The following is a list of Google Apps for iOS (from Google, Inc.). This list is exhaustive and includes several apps that are not on the infographic Guide to Google Apps for the iPad. Some of these have natural classroom integration, and some are more for personal or business use. Some are optimized for both iPad and iPhone, some are only optimized for iPhone. Each app title is linked directly to the App Store so you can click directly from your device to download each app.

Updated 5/31/17

Productivity Apps

Google Drive Apps

Social Apps

Geography Apps

Virtual Reality & 360

YouTube Apps

Google Play Apps

Photography Apps

Toontastic

Chromecast Apps

Games

Google Home

Other Apps

Business and Development Apps

Looking for more details on Google Apps for the iPad? See this infographic Guide to Google Apps for the iPad, or refer to the Google and the iPad section of this site.

 

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]]> The Best of Both Worlds: Google Apps for the iPad #GoogleEduOnAir https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/the-best-of-both-worlds-google-apps-for-the-ipad-googleeduonair/ Sun, 10 May 2015 19:36:14 +0000 https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/the-best-of-both-worlds-google-apps-for-the-ipad-googleeduonair The post The Best of Both Worlds: Google Apps for the iPad #GoogleEduOnAir appeared first on Shake Up Learning.

I was so honored to be a presenter this weekend for the Google Edu On Air conference for educators! It was so exciting to participate in this conference as a learner and as a presenter. I was happy to see friends from Texas, across the U.S. and Canada, participate, and it was a thrill toContinue Reading

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Best of Both Worlds! Google Apps for the iPad online #GoogleEduOnAir Presentation by Kasey Bell| www.ShakeUpLearning.com | #gafe #edtech #googleedu #ipad #ipaded

I was so honored to be a presenter this weekend for the Google Edu On Air conference for educators! It was so exciting to participate in this conference as a learner and as a presenter. I was happy to see friends from Texas, across the U.S. and Canada, participate, and it was a thrill to have participants from Iceland, Brazil and Australia! If you missed out on participating in the live conference, no worries, you can watch all of the presentation On Demand!

The session below was part of the Google Edu On Air online conference for educators across the globe held on May 9, 2015. Below is the recording of my session, “The Best of Both Worlds: Google Apps for the iPad,” along with the presentation and resources.

The Best of Both Worlds! Google Apps for the iPad!
Don’t let anyone tell you that the iPad doesn’t play well with Google Apps! There are now 50 Google Apps for iOS. Let’s dive in, and discover the best Google Apps for the iPad. Learn practical tips and tricks to save you time and storage space, practical integration ideas for the classroom and shared iPads, and ways to stay more productive with Google.

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]]> The Golden Treasures of Google! – Part 1 (Google Maps, Street View and Google Earth) https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/the-golden-treasures-of-google-part-1/ https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/the-golden-treasures-of-google-part-1/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:27:48 +0000 https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/the-golden-treasures-of-google-part-1 The post The Golden Treasures of Google! – Part 1 (Google Maps, Street View and Google Earth) appeared first on Shake Up Learning.

Most of us know of the Googley Goodness of Google Drive and related apps for education, but did you know there is much, much more that Google offers for FREE! There are so many hidden gems for teachers and students. This blog series will explore the lesser-known Google tools. (It wouldn’t all fit in oneContinue Reading

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The Golden Treasures of Google - Part 1! The Fabulous Tools You Don't Know About! | www.shakeuplearning.com | #googleedu #edtech #gafe #gafechatMost of us know of the Googley Goodness of Google Drive and related apps for education, but did you know there is much, much more that Google offers for FREE! There are so many hidden gems for teachers and students.

This blog series will explore the lesser-known Google tools. (It wouldn’t all fit in one post, and I find something new and interesting all the time!) Some of theses tools are made by Google, Inc., and some are made possible with Google tools. Either way, fasten your seatbelt and get ready to get your Google on!

This post will focus on tools that utilize Google Maps, Street View and Google Earth.

Create and share custom Google Maps!

My Maps (formerly Maps Engine Lite)

 

In the Classroom:

  • Create interactive lesson journeys
  • Visit historical landmarks
  • Travel through a Novel or Story
  • Create an Amazing Race adventure!

My Maps Cheat Sheet (by Jennifer Judkins)

Smarty PinsSmarty Pins is a Google Maps based geography and trivia game. Google generates a random trivia question about a specific city or country, and you must drop  a pin on the correct location on the map. Players can choose from six trivia categories: Featured Topics, Arts & Culture, Science & Geography, Sports & Games, Entertainment, History & Current Events.

Although you cannot choose the location for your students, this is still a fun way to introduce some geography to your students.

Geo Guesser

Game using Google Maps StreetView that drops the player in a random location and challenges them to find out where they are. You cannot choose an exact location, you can choose from collections of cities, countries and continents. Perfect for a little social studies virtual excursion!

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From the Google Lit Trips website, “Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story.”

As a former ELAR teacher, I LOVE this! What a fun way to explore and integrate Google Earth in the classroom!

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Create and Tell Stories through Google Earth!

  • View Gallery of Stories
  • Create Your Own Tours
  • Great for Student Projects
  • Note: Only works in 32-bit browsers (use Firefox or Safari)– I know! Hard to believe!
  • Must have the Google Earth plug-in

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An Updated Infographic Guide to Google Apps for the iPad (31 Apps)!!! There are now tons of apps for iOS devices that integrate well with Google, and Google has released several official apps for the iPad. There is hope, Obi Wan, Google and Apple can play nice!The infographic embedded below details the most useful Google appsContinue Reading

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An Updated Infographic Guide to Google Apps for the iPad (31 Apps)!!!

There are now tons of apps for iOS devices that integrate well with Google, and Google has released several official apps for the iPad. There is hope, Obi Wan, Google and Apple can play nice!The infographic embedded below details the most useful Google apps for the iPad. These are the apps that I find most useful not only for teachers, but any Google user. Take a look, download, and explore the wonderful possibilities of using Google Apps on the iPad! The online, interactive version embedded below includes links directly to the app store! You can also download the image file below.Note: This is not an exhaustive list of ALL of the Google designed apps. For a complete list, click here. There are a few apps that were designed for the iPhone, but worth mentioning for the iPad as well.

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