Posted in geography, virtualfieldtrip on Mar 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Google Maps Mania today announced that the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics has posted an interactive map of the Torch Relay at its official Olympic 2010 site. You can search the site for location of the torch by day, province, or community. Click on any of the Community Celebration dots on the [...]
Posted in geography, virtualfieldtrip on Feb 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Undoubtedly, world geography and foreign language teacher would jump at the chance to pack up their classes and take them trekking around the globe. But, even in the best of budgetary times, traveling away from the classroom is not an opportunity that happens often enough. For teachers who wish to immerse their classes is the [...]
Posted in GoogleEarth, geography, mashup on Feb 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
Maine has welcomed February 1st with cold rain and sleet, so finding this new mashup for Google Earth was a much needed distraction from winter’s grip. Created for Google Earth as part of the 360cities.net website this mashup lets you explore 43 different cities across the globe, viewing over 5,000 beautiful panoramic images in amazing [...]
