The application that I researched in Wed 2.0, Google Earth will play an integral part in many of the lesson plans that I intend to produce in the feature. I feel the ability of Google Earth has unlimited potential to make every lesson plan interactive and only limited by my time and imagination. The Google Earth Program allows the teacher or student to take the participant out of the classroom, bringing the outside world in to that learning experience making any project or lesson plan a personal occurrence.
Students and teachers alike, utilizing the Google Earth application, can view satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D images that put the world's geographic information at the students or teachers instant access. Students can see the world from a different point of view, which makes learning interactive. The tool bar provided in the Google Earth easily facilitates recording tours and playing them back to students during the lesson plan. The application utilizes tools that are the same familiar tools that are used in other Google applications, helping to make the program user friendly and the application is free.
The application feature in Google Earth that I feel will be valuable in preparing interactive lesson plans in a social studies class, the ability to record lesson specific customized tours of historic places which the instructor and students can share with the class. A tour or lesson plan can be created as a movie with recorded audio, produced by the teacher or the student.
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