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Maureen
Sep 13, 2009, 9:12:09 AM9/13/09
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Hi Kathy
Don't know if you are checking this site, but I was looking at your
project and wondering if it is possible to do a google lit trip with a
book that has an imaginary world. I thought I had heard that you can
create a country (or a world?) on google earth and then could I
possibly chart a google lit trip through that world? The book I am
thinking of is the Little Prince. I have about a month before I start
to work on that book (maybe longer) but not having much experience
with google earth, I thought I would ask what you think.
Another google earth question -- I was thinking of trying to create a
French speaking world map on google earth with my seventh graders.
Placing markers on all of the French speaking countries around the
world and then entering text on some of them (the ones they chose to
do research on). Do you think I can use icons of the actual flags for
each of these countries as the markers?
thanks for your help.
Maureen
Don't know if you are checking this site, but I was looking at your
project and wondering if it is possible to do a google lit trip with a
book that has an imaginary world. I thought I had heard that you can
create a country (or a world?) on google earth and then could I
possibly chart a google lit trip through that world? The book I am
thinking of is the Little Prince. I have about a month before I start
to work on that book (maybe longer) but not having much experience
with google earth, I thought I would ask what you think.
Another google earth question -- I was thinking of trying to create a
French speaking world map on google earth with my seventh graders.
Placing markers on all of the French speaking countries around the
world and then entering text on some of them (the ones they chose to
do research on). Do you think I can use icons of the actual flags for
each of these countries as the markers?
thanks for your help.
Maureen
Lucie deLaBruere
Sep 13, 2009, 10:53:55 AM9/13/09
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Maureen,
Yes to all your French speaking countries with flags as markers. That would be cool. If you decide to do that, let me know.
I was looking at this site http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/countries_by_languages.htm
and thought I might make your suggestions to our French teacher. You'll need to know how to upload custom icons for your placemarkers http://www.assortedstuff.com/stuff/?p=193
about create a country
I did create a country project, but this worked because the students had to create a country that had a longtitude and latitude location and the students actually created a country that worked with "natural" laws of that location.
It's been a while since I read little Prince and I forget the "places"-- but the only way I can see an imaginary country work is if you said.. I'm going to place this imaginary place on this location on the globe and I'm going to create a polygon or marker that represents this country. I'm not sure what value this would have to using Google Earth. In the case of create a country, the Polygons that were shaped were shaped could be anywhere (including in the middle of the ocean), but then they had to create rivers and mountains, etc If they had a river flowing "north" they had to explain why. . They followed the rules of "climate" for that longtitude and latitude. So in this case there was value to be gained for using google earth.
The value I can see for Little Prince was that it could feel like he was flying to places, and you would just put markers on the globe, and that would be a cool effect. We wouldn't want people to be confused an actually think there was a country there. In create a country, this was obvious.
You could put in an overlay on the whole globe (I saw someone turn Google Earth into a Halloween Pumpkin once with an orange overlay) http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/10/happy_halloween_google_earth.html
Perhaps you could turn the whole earth into a 'fantasy" land. Hmmmmm that might be fun!
--
Lucie deLaBruere
www.LearningWithLucie.com
www.InfiniteThinking.org
Tech Integration Specialist - St. Albans City Schoool
http://twitter.com/techsavvygirl
Work: 802 527 0565 x 3206
Cell: 802 752 6086
ldela...@gmail.com
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie
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Yes to all your French speaking countries with flags as markers. That would be cool. If you decide to do that, let me know.
I was looking at this site http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/countries_by_languages.htm
and thought I might make your suggestions to our French teacher. You'll need to know how to upload custom icons for your placemarkers http://www.assortedstuff.com/stuff/?p=193
about create a country
I did create a country project, but this worked because the students had to create a country that had a longtitude and latitude location and the students actually created a country that worked with "natural" laws of that location.
It's been a while since I read little Prince and I forget the "places"-- but the only way I can see an imaginary country work is if you said.. I'm going to place this imaginary place on this location on the globe and I'm going to create a polygon or marker that represents this country. I'm not sure what value this would have to using Google Earth. In the case of create a country, the Polygons that were shaped were shaped could be anywhere (including in the middle of the ocean), but then they had to create rivers and mountains, etc If they had a river flowing "north" they had to explain why. . They followed the rules of "climate" for that longtitude and latitude. So in this case there was value to be gained for using google earth.
The value I can see for Little Prince was that it could feel like he was flying to places, and you would just put markers on the globe, and that would be a cool effect. We wouldn't want people to be confused an actually think there was a country there. In create a country, this was obvious.
You could put in an overlay on the whole globe (I saw someone turn Google Earth into a Halloween Pumpkin once with an orange overlay) http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/10/happy_halloween_google_earth.html
Perhaps you could turn the whole earth into a 'fantasy" land. Hmmmmm that might be fun!
Lucie deLaBruere
www.LearningWithLucie.com
www.InfiniteThinking.org
Tech Integration Specialist - St. Albans City Schoool
http://twitter.com/techsavvygirl
Work: 802 527 0565 x 3206
Cell: 802 752 6086
ldela...@gmail.com
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie
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Maureen
Sep 13, 2009, 1:32:23 PM9/13/09
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Wow! Thanks for all the help, Lucie. I will check out your sites and
see about "flagging" the French-speaking countries. I am definitely
planning to do this, but I don't have google earth at home (nervous
about downloading it because someone told me when they tried it
crashed their computer) and need to be at school to play around with
it. I actually need to do this soon. We have started talking about
"Where in the World is French spoken" and Maria came into my class to
teach a mini lesson on search from your search curriculum. There is
not a clear-cut answer to the question because there are countries
where it is the "official" language, countries where it is the
"national" language and others where it is spoken by some. It raises a
bunch of questions and forces kids to double check their answers in
different sites and maybe try different key words.
I wonder with the petit prince if there is a different tool that I
could use to do a lit trip. Could we somehow visually create our world
and tag the different "planets" with markers that answer questions or
explore themes. Seems like a cool way to enhance the discussion about
the book. Even if we had blogging questions at each marker and kids
could reflect on their thoughts or experiences related to that planet.
I have no idea what kind of tool this would be. I wonder if you could
even create a google earth map that would have a marker at the place
where St Exupery crashed his plane in the desert and then link it to
our imaginary world. just brainstorming here.
thanks again Lucie
maureen
On Sep 13, 10:53 am, Lucie deLaBruere <ldelabru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maureen,
>
> Yes to all your French speaking countries with flags as markers. That
> would be cool. If you decide to do that, let me know.
> I was looking at this sitehttp://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/countries_by_languages.htm
> ldelabru...@gmail.com
>
> - Show quoted text -
see about "flagging" the French-speaking countries. I am definitely
planning to do this, but I don't have google earth at home (nervous
about downloading it because someone told me when they tried it
crashed their computer) and need to be at school to play around with
it. I actually need to do this soon. We have started talking about
"Where in the World is French spoken" and Maria came into my class to
teach a mini lesson on search from your search curriculum. There is
not a clear-cut answer to the question because there are countries
where it is the "official" language, countries where it is the
"national" language and others where it is spoken by some. It raises a
bunch of questions and forces kids to double check their answers in
different sites and maybe try different key words.
I wonder with the petit prince if there is a different tool that I
could use to do a lit trip. Could we somehow visually create our world
and tag the different "planets" with markers that answer questions or
explore themes. Seems like a cool way to enhance the discussion about
the book. Even if we had blogging questions at each marker and kids
could reflect on their thoughts or experiences related to that planet.
I have no idea what kind of tool this would be. I wonder if you could
even create a google earth map that would have a marker at the place
where St Exupery crashed his plane in the desert and then link it to
our imaginary world. just brainstorming here.
thanks again Lucie
maureen
On Sep 13, 10:53 am, Lucie deLaBruere <ldelabru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maureen,
>
> Yes to all your French speaking countries with flags as markers. That
> would be cool. If you decide to do that, let me know.
> and thought I might make your suggestions to our French teacher. You'll
> need to know how to upload custom icons for your placemarkershttp://www.assortedstuff.com/stuff/?p=193
>
> about create a country
>
> I did create a country project, but this worked because the students had to
> create a country that had a longtitude and latitude location and the
> students actually created a country that worked with "natural" laws of that
> location.
>
> It's been a while since I read little Prince and I forget the "places"--
> but the only way I can see an imaginary country work is if you said.. I'm
> going to place this imaginary place on this location on the globe and I'm
> going to create a polygon or marker that represents this country. I'm not
> sure what value this would have to using Google Earth. In the case of
> create a country, the Polygons that were shaped were shaped could be
> anywhere (including in the middle of the ocean), but then they had to create
> rivers and mountains, etc If they had a river flowing "north" they had to
> explain why. . They followed the rules of "climate" for that longtitude and
> latitude. So in this case there was value to be gained for using google
> earth.
>
> The value I can see for Little Prince was that it could feel like he was
> flying to places, and you would just put markers on the globe, and that
> would be a cool effect. We wouldn't want people to be confused an actually
> think there was a country there. In create a country, this was obvious.
>
> You could put in an overlay on the whole globe (I saw someone turn Google
> Earth into a Halloween Pumpkin once with an orange overlay)http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/10/happy_halloween_googl...
> about create a country
>
> I did create a country project, but this worked because the students had to
> create a country that had a longtitude and latitude location and the
> students actually created a country that worked with "natural" laws of that
> location.
>
> It's been a while since I read little Prince and I forget the "places"--
> but the only way I can see an imaginary country work is if you said.. I'm
> going to place this imaginary place on this location on the globe and I'm
> going to create a polygon or marker that represents this country. I'm not
> sure what value this would have to using Google Earth. In the case of
> create a country, the Polygons that were shaped were shaped could be
> anywhere (including in the middle of the ocean), but then they had to create
> rivers and mountains, etc If they had a river flowing "north" they had to
> explain why. . They followed the rules of "climate" for that longtitude and
> latitude. So in this case there was value to be gained for using google
> earth.
>
> The value I can see for Little Prince was that it could feel like he was
> flying to places, and you would just put markers on the globe, and that
> would be a cool effect. We wouldn't want people to be confused an actually
> think there was a country there. In create a country, this was obvious.
>
> You could put in an overlay on the whole globe (I saw someone turn Google
>
> --------------------------------------
> Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
> - James M. Barrie
> ---------------------------------------- Hide quoted text -
> --------------------------------------
> Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
> - James M. Barrie
>
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