Learn how to connect a variety of learning opportunities to visualizations available through using Google Earth. Bookmapping and Literature Trips are two models of engaging students with curriculum and Google Earth.

1. Enhanced Engagement
through Geography
Kevin Amboe

2. Purpose
Empower visual and kinaesthetic
learners to engage with content.
Google Earth and Literature Trips as
the anchor for geography learning.
Make salient the opportunity to
connect to standards and curriculum

3. 1984 National Geographic
5 Themes of Geography
Location - Absolute / Relative / Lat / Long
Place - Physical Features
Human / Environment Interaction
Movement - Roads / Rivers
Regions - Borders

4. 2012 National Geography
Standards - Essential Elements
The World in Spatial Terms
Places and Regions
Physical Systems
Environment and Society
The Uses of Geography

5. ISTE Student Standards
Critical Thinking,
Problem Solving and
Decision Making
Creativity and
Innovation
Communication and
Collaboration

6. English
Common Core Standards
Writing (6–12)
Sample
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using
effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event
sequences.
Reading (6–12)
Sample
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of
episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot
moves toward a resolution.

7. Shape of Session
Introduction
History of Google Lit Trips
Rationale
Hands on Exploration of GE Tools
break
Creating Placemarks with GE Tools
Supported Creation
Sharing and Extending the Learning

8. Catalyze Learning
Quo
Catalyze Learning

9. "If our students are not reading and
composing with various electronic
technologies, then they are illiterate.
They are not just unprepared for the
future, they are illiterate right now,
in our current time and context.
(David Bolter, 1991)

12. Minimize written output struggles
using digital storytelling.
Engage students in expressing /
communicating rather than struggling
with the written form.

13. Process not Text Output
Story Telling

14. The default media form has shifted from the
essay to the multimedia collage.
Jason Ohler
http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/beyondwords.cfm

15. Do Maps Tell????
What Stories

16. What Stories Do Maps Tell

17. What Stories Do Maps Tell
 Size / Distance
 Elevation
 Setting
 Barriers
 Human Impact
 Climate

18. Engagement

19. Interaction with Google Earth
 Observe Static / Predetermined Location
 Hands on - Navigate and Explore
 Do the impossible - Fly, Teleport
 Differentiated Experiences
 Enhanced Connections and Links
 Create / Present
 Story Tell
 Collaborate

21. As a Learning Catalyst

22. Learning Research
 Challenge, Inquiry, Project Based
Learning
 Reading with Purpose
 Taking Notes
 Visualization
 Build and Activate Prior Knowledge
 Conversation and Vocabulary

23. BookMapping
 Verifies mental models
with real-life
 Enriches spatial
understanding
 Combining geographic
and textual information
which increases recall

24. GoogleLitTrips.org

26. Google Lit Trips
 Free downloadable files
 Mark locations on the journeys of
characters.
 Placemarks with pop-up windows
 Creating engaging and relevant
literary experiences traveling
alongside the characters

29. Barbara Smucker
Underground to Canada

31. White Jade Tiger
by Julie Lawson

33. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

34. Inquiry

36. 1 Menus
2 Common Task Icons
3 Historical Imagery
4 Tilt and Turn
5 Navigate
6 Street View
7 Zoom
8 Above Ground
9 Elevation Above Sea Level
10 Latitude Longitude
11 Oldest Historical Image
12 Layers Pane
13 Place Pane
14 Search Results
15 Search Box

37. Exploration Task List
 Find your Hotel
 Find a location of interest
 save image
 navigate around location
 check out historical imagery
 view from 360 degrees
 explore street view navigation
 Measure a distance with a path

39. Creating Together

40. Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR

41. Creating Together

42. http://www.chrisbabcockart.com/about-chris/

43. Think Geo-Spatially
Your Task ….

44. Read Aloud - No Moon, No
Milk by Chris Babcock

45. Where’s the Geography?

47. Wonderings
 Why Venice Beach?
 Can cows swim?
 How big of a surfboard would be needed to
hold up a cow?
 Why is it called Venice Beach?
 How is the sand so consistent tan coloured?

52. HTML Basics
<p>
<br>
<b></b>
<img src=“”>

54. Wonderings
 Why is this crater filled with water?
 How are craters formed?
 How tall are the edges of the crater?
 How deep is crater lake
 If the lake is a consistent shape how much
water can it hold?

55. Search Box
Crater Lake National Park
Drag to Places

56. HTML Basics
<i></i>
<a href=“”>Link</a
<ul><li><li></ul>
<ol><li><li></ol>

57. Setting View

60. http://geniushour.wikispaces.com/
#geniushour

64. HTML Next Steps
<img src=“”
width=“”
align= “”
alt =“”
border = 1
>
<a href=“”>
<img src=“”>
</a>

65. Wonderings
 Who were the Rockettes
 “It was intended to entertain and amuse, but
also to elevate and inspire.”
How could a building elevate and inspire?
 Why does a Radio station need seats?
 What is different between Satellite, Street
View, and 3D Buildings(layer)?

69. Create a Path

71. Wonderings
Questions you might consider about Martha’s
travels in New York …
If you were going to Central Park from Radio
City Music Hall, how would you go there?
What is special about Central Park?
What methods of transportation are used in
Central Park?
How fast was Martha likely traveling?
Do you have a ‘Central Park’?

72. Google Earth Pins

76. Wonderings
What discussion starters might you ask of
students going to the American Museum of
Natural History?
What websites or activities would you want
students to explore at the AMNH

77. Recording a Tour

78. Network Layer
 http://bit.ly/gltworkshop
 Placemarks Tab - Enter your generic
address

79. Network Layer
 http://bit.ly/gltworkshop
 Placemarks Tab - Enter your generic
address

80. Network Layer

83. Creating your own Google Lit Trip
Supported Creation

84. Create Four Placemarks
Author Information
Intro / Setting / Opening Scene
Question or Tasks
Narrated Video Tour
Include:
Images, Links, HTML formatting

85. Extensions
Google Maps
Embedding Maps

86. Company name
As you are wrapping
up

87. Coming Soon
Tour Builder
Literacy Locations

90. Seasons
Birds Eye Perspective

92. Nisga’a Treaty

94. The Stories you Write - Class Hike

95. Identify Culturally significant

96. Shakespeare told us that "All the world is a
stage…" and his plays were performed in a
theatre called The Globe

97. Tell us what you think!
There are two ways to provide
feedback on this session:
• ISTE 2014 mobile app
• isteconference.org/feedback

98. Kevin Amboe
Information and Media Literacy Coordinator
kevinamboe@gmail.com
Enhanced Engagement
through
Geography

99. Image ResourcesAmericas - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:America_blank_map.png
Keynote Template - http://imaginelayout.com/keynote-template-998/
Africa / Europe - http://pixabay.com/en/world-map-asia-black-continents-153509/