Waffle Bytes

The new and improved Google Earth is here after 2 years of development, and it is worth checking out! (First note - at this time you can only check it out using the Chrome browser, or with an Android devices.  From The Keyword  Google Blog it will be "on iOS and other browsers in the near future.") To get a nice introduction, I recommend reading the blog post Welcome Home to the New Google Earth . Then, here are some quick overviews for starting to use it - The landing page for Google Earth on the web gives some awesome views - I just sat and watched it scroll through a few times before clicking on the "Launch Google Earth." After you launch, it will load - the time for this varies depending on your connection.  You will then see the new Google Earth There are a variety of icons on the left side - you can click on the Waffle at the top to open the drawer if you need to know what each icon is. One icon is not represented in the drawer - the ...

There is an addition in your "More" area when creating items in Google - it's called Google My Maps. This is a great place to create some customized maps which can be saved and shared just like other Google items in Drive.  Some applications - creating a map of schools in your league mapping traveling routes viewing where students in your class are clustered a map of local historical sites mapping locations in a novel students are reading The easiest way to create a map is to use or create a Google Spreadsheet with the data.  Make sure to use headers on your spreadsheet for importing purposes! My friend Joe Rommel over at Berrien RESA has blogged here about how to import this into a Map - Your browser does not support iframes.