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Google Earth Directions for Whale Rider Project Part

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Downloading and Installing Google Earth

1. Open and Internet

Browser and navigate to

http://earth.google.com

2. Click on the Download

button to start the

process.

3. Click the Agree button to

agree to the license

agreement.

4. The software will be

downloaded to your

computer. When it is

finished, click Run GoogleEarth button to install the

software.

5. NOTE: At a later time you

might also want to

consider trying Google

Earth Pro, which can be

downloaded from the

same page. Pro has anumber of advantages

over Free Earth, including

better measuring tools

and integration with GPS

data and GIS shape files.

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Logging into Google Earth Pro

1. Double click on the icon with your

cursor to launch the software. Thereshould be an icon on your desktop. If

you do not have an icon, please inform

the instructor.

Navigating In Google Earth

2. The software offers a navigation tool in

the upper right-hand corner of the

screen. This tool will help you to zoom in

or out, change your direction, or tilt your

perspective.

3. Clicking the N on the compass will re-

orient the globe. Dragging the N willadjust the north axis. You can rotate in

360 degrees.

4. The top compass lets you change your

perspective from overhead to a position

along side of it.

5. The bottom compass spins the Earth

North, South, East and West. Clicking

and holding down the four directional

arrows either on the compass or on your

keyboard will also spin the Earth.

6. The horizontal slide bar beneath the

compass lets you zoom in and out.

Spend some time zooming in and out.



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7. Move your mouse over the Earth and a

hand will appear. Clickingand dragging

in one of the cardinal directions will

move the Earth in that direction.

8. Use your mouse to practice moving

around. Try to center your location onthe Southeastern United States. When

you get there, zoom in on your school.

Can you see the building where your

class is?



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Finding Places in Google Earth



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1. In the upper left-hand corner, type in

your address, and then click on the

magnifying glass. The program will

zoom in on the location of the address

you entered. Any place with a physical

street address can be found this way.

2. You can also find places of interest such

as National Parks or monuments by

typing in its name. Type in Statue of

Liberty and click on the magnifying

glass to zoom in on that location.

Notice anything interesting? What can

you see of the statue? What cant you

see? Why is this?

3. In the Layers Panel, click on 3D

Buildings and wait a couple of minutesfor the layer to load. What has

changed? Now use the arrows in the

top compass to change your

perspective.

4. Besides address and places of interest,

you can find an exact location using

latitude and longitude. To the right are

the coordinates for Auckland, NZ. Type

in their latitude and longitude.

5. Other places mentioned in the book

include: The Valdes Peninsula of

Argentina, Tonga, Galapagos, Easter

Island, Tokelau, Rarotonga, Hawaiki,

Island of the Ancients, Antarctica, and

Whangara, NZ (summarized on pp.

139). Find each of these places. Notice

how each search is stored in your

temporary folder in the search panel.

6. You can travel back and forth to each

place you have visited by double

clicking on that place.

7. NOTE: You can change the speed that

you travel around the Earth by going to



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Tools >> Options >> Navigation and

using the slide bar to adjust the fly-to-

speed.



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Searching GEs Database

1. Students can use GEs extensive database

to research a number of topics. For

example, as part of The Whale Rider

project you might want students to

research various Oceanographic research

facilities around the globe.

2. To find a type of business, click on Find

Business and type in your search string.

3. Students can use these business balloons

to find the address, phone number and

typically a website in which to begin their

research.

4. NOTE: You might even want students (or

yourself) to call the public relations

department and arrange an interview with

a researcher, which could be done in

Skype or Elluminate.com and then

recorded and posted on the project wiki

for others to view. You can find some

Interview Guidelines on the Documents

page of my main site (The Networked

Learner

http://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.co

m/documents ) and other project

documents and rubrics which you are

welcome to distribute to your students.

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Exploring Google Earths Layer Data

1. Google Earth contains over 210 layers,

at my last count that,can be used by

students for research. With the release

of GE 5.0, they have added a layer onthe oceans.

2. To access this layer, click the Ocean

folder in the Layers panel.

3. To expand the folder, click on the (+)

sign.

4. Layers that students might study for

The Whale Rider project include:ARKive: endangered Ocean Species;

Marine Protected Areas; Animal

Tracking, and Census of Marine Life.

5. NOTE: The visibility of a layers

balloons depends on your elevation in

Google Earth. If you dont see a layer,

try zooming in or out.

6. Take a few minutes to explore theselayers. Then Turn and Talk: What is

one way you could incorporate ocean

data into your classroom.



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Adding Layer Content

1. Google Earth has a number of layers

that are not included in the primary

database. These layers are created by

a number of organizations and storedon Google Earths website and can be

downloaded and added to Earth.

2. To download a layer, click on the Add

Content button from Google Earths

Outreach Community. GE will bring up

a browser and navigate to the web

page where the layers are stored.

3. Take a few moments to explore someof the Educational layers.

4. For this project, click on Ocean Layer

and then choose a layer that interests

you. To load a layer in GE, click on the

link that says Open in Google Earth.

5. In my case, I chose the layer

Exploring Americas Oceans, as Right

Whales have been spotted along ourcoasts. As you can see, the new layer

is loaded under the Places panel in

your Temporary Places folder which

contains all of the searches you have

done during this session.

6. NOTE: You might assign particular

layers to students and ask them to

evaluate the importance of this data to

the whales in our story.

7. Google Earth also has a number of

layers as part of their Outreach

program, filed under the headings of

Showcase and Case Studies which

can be found at -



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http://earth.google.com/outreach/index

.html

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Searching for Data Layers

1. Other research organizations may

have layer data stored on their

servers which are not part of Google

Earth Outreach. A good strategy forfinding these layers which can be

added to Earth are to use the

advanced search features of Google

Search http://search.google.com

2. Navigate to Google Search and click

on Advanced Search to the right of

the search box.

3. Type in your search string and thenunder File Type choose KMZ or

KML. This will look for only those

types of files. The search on the left

for Right Whales yielded a number

of layers that have information

about the species.

4. NOTE: KML stands for Keyhole

Modeling Language, while a KMZ file

is a zipped file that contains not onlylayer data but any information you

have personally added to the layer,

such as links to images and your

own text.

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II

Creating a Folder to Store Your Placemark(s)

1. One of the major goals of The Whale

Rider Project is for students to use

Google Earth to visualize the journey of

the whales. Because different groups

of students may be working on similar

aspects of the project it is important for

each group to store their placemark

data in a separate folder with an

appropriate title and their name.

2. To create a folder to store your

placemarks, move your mouse over the

My Places icon in the Places panel

and then right-click with your mouse.

3. Choose Add from the menu and then

move your mouse toward the arrow for

the pop-out window.

4. Choose the Folder option.

5. Give the Folder a title and also include

your name (for example: The Whale

Rider ThomasC Spring 2009). This

will help the teacher know which

placemark belongs to which student

and also what year it was done.

6. NOTE: If students are working onvarious topics, such as culture,

oceanography, geography, ecology,

language, you might want to have

them name their folders with that

designation.



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7. You can also provide a description

about the project under the description

tab. In this text box you can type in

any information you want and also

format how it will be displayed using

XHTML. For now just type in a short

description. We will be learning how to

work with XHTML later.



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Creating a Placemark

1. Click on the yellow push pin in the tool

bar at the top of your screen. A yellow

push pin will appear along with a dialog

box where we will be enteringinformation later.

2. Click and drag the push pin to where you

live.

3. NOTE: If you cant see a location in

enough detail, you can use the

navigation tools to move around or the

zoom tool to zoom in or out until you are

at your desired location.

4. Type in a title for your placemark, such

as the name of the place and click OK.

5. NOTE: You could also have students

create extra placemarks that deal with

one of the major subjects that can be

addressed along with the general story,

such as cultural anthropology, biology,

ecology, geography, history, linguistics,and oceanography.

6. You should now see your placemark. If

its not in the right location and you

want to move it, right click on the yellow

push pin and choose Propertiesfrom

the menu. Once the dialog box is open

you can use your mouse to move the

placemark to where you want it.

7. Now spend a few minutes creating a

placemark for each location the whales

travel mentioned in the book: The Valdes

Peninsula, Tonga, Easter Island, Hawaiki,

Antarctica, and Whangara.



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8. Give each placemark a title and then

move each placemark into the storage

folder you created.



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Measuring Distances

1. Google Earth provides a number of

measuring tools that can be used by

students who want to explore various

aspects of geography, such as the

spatial relationships between places onEarth. To use one of the measuring

tools, click on the ruler in the tool bar.

2. In the Free and Plus version of Google

Earth, students can draw lines to

determine the distance between to

places. Distances can be converted to a

number of different types of

measurements as shown to the right.

3. The path tool can be used to measure

distances not in a straight line, such as

following the path of a road from one

city to another.

4. In the Pro version of Google Earth,

students can also use a circle tools or

the polygon tool to measure different

areas.

5. Use both the path and line tool to

measure the distance between two

places mentioned in the book, The

Whale Rider.

6. NOTE: You could have students use the

path tool to measure the distance the

whales travel on their journey. Which

legs are the longest, or the shortest?

What physical, biological, or ecologicalfactors may have contributed to the

time it took for the whales to travel from

one place to another?



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Saving Your Information to Your Computer

1. The placemarks you create are stored

on the computer you are working on

and not on Googles server. It is

therefore necessary to save theplacemarks you create to your folder

on the schools network.

2. Before we save our placemark (or

layer), make sure that any placemarks

you created are in the folder. If they

are not, then click on them and drag

them into the folder you created

earlier.

3. Collapse the folder by clicking on the

+ sign next to the folder.

4. Make sure there is a Check Mark in

the box next to the folder. This means

that all objects in the folder have been

selected. If there is not, then click on

the box to the left of the folder until a

checkmark appears. NOTE: This is themost common way students lose their

information.

5. Click on the folder to highlight it.

6. In the File menu, choose Save and

then Save Place As. Because your

placemark(s) are in a folder theprogram considers the folder to be

one object.

7. Navigate to your folder on the school

network by clicking on Browse



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Folders. Then click Save.



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Changing Icons

1. Right click on one of your placemarks

in the Places Panel.

2. Choose Properties from the menu.

3. Click on the icon in the upper right

corner of the Edit Placemark window.

4. Choose a different icon from the list.

5. Click OK to save.



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Downloading and Installing a Custom Icon

1. Icon Archive is a website that contains

thousands of free icons that you can use for

projects. Use an Internet browser to

navigate to - http://www.iconarchive.com/

2. Use the search box to find a whale fluke

icon, like the one shown at this location -

http://www.iconarchive.com/show/new-

zealand-icons-by-afterglow/Whale-

Watching-icon.html .

3. Right click on the largest image of the

whale fluke and choose Save Image As.

Save the image to your project folder on

the school network.

4. To upload the file, right click on a placemark

and then click on the icon in the Edit

Placemark window.

5. At the bottom of the window, click on Add

Custom Icon and then browse your

computer for that icon.

6. Click OK to save. Repeat this process for

each icon.

7. NOTE: I would create a Documents page

on the project wiki to store any files you

want the students to use, such as images ordirection on how to use Google Earth.

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Adding a Path to Connect Your Placemarks

1. The path tool is one way to

connect placemarks in a layer. To

draw a path between two

placeamrks, click on the Add

Path tool, then name your

path.

2. Click on the location where you

want to start your path and drag

your mouse until you reach your

destination. You do not have to

draw in a straight line.

3. Click OK to save your path.

4. To edit your path, right click on the

path icon in the Places menu.

Zoom in to see the section of the

path you want to change. Click on

the sizing handles to adjust the

path.

5. NOTE: If you want to increase the

length of your path, you will have

to choose the sizing handle on

either end of the path and drag it.

You cannot add to the path. If the

path is not sufficient, you will have

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this placemark about 400 leagues from Easter Island in the Pacific. A league is about

3.000006 miles. Then copy and paste the following paragraphs into your placemark:

Four hundred leagues from Easter Island. Te Pito o te Whenua. Diatoms of light

shimmered in the cobalt blue depths of the Pacific. The herd, sixty strong, led by itsancient leader, was following the course computed by him in the massive banks of his

memory. The elderly females assisted the younger mothers, shepherding the newborn in

the first journey from the cetacean crib. Way out in front, on point, and in the rear, the

young males kept guard on the horizon. They watched for danger, not from other

creatures of the sea but from the greatest threat of all man. At every sighting they

would send their ululation back to their leader. They had grown to rely on his member of

the underwater cathedrals where they could take sanctuary, often for days, until man

had passed. Such a huge cathedral lay beneath the sea at the place known as the Navel

of the Universe.



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Formatting Text in a Placemark

1. To edit the the placemark, right

click on the placemark and

choose Properties from the

menu.

2. Copy and paste the text from The

Whale Rider provided above into

your placemark.

3. To start a paragraph, type the

code

in front of the

paragraph. At the end of the

paragraph, type code
to end
the paragraph.

4. To make the Maori phrase Te Pito

o te Whenua italics, type the

code in front of the first word.

To end the italics, type the code

after the period that ends

that sentence.

5. NOTE: I have provided an XHTML

Crib Sheet that I give to the

students as a guide which

explains how to also underline or

bold text. You can find more

XHTML code on W3Schools

website at -

http://www.w3schools.com/html/D

EFAULT.asp

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Adding Links to a Placemark

1. If you closed the placemark from the

previous exercise, reopen it by right

clicking on it in the Places Panel and

choosing Properties from the menu.

2. We are going to add a link to an online

resource where students can learn more

about marine diatoms at -The "Friedrich

Hustedt Study Centre for Diatoms -

http://www.awi.de/index.php?id=2366&L=

0

3. In front of the word diatoms type the

code

5. After the word diatoms type the code to

close the link

6. The complete code for this link should be:

7. NOTE: You might considerlinking to other

types of media, such as right whale sound

files. You can find other Right Whale

sounds and learn how to read a

spectrogram at the Right Whale Listening

Network which is part of the Bioacoustics

Research Program at the Cornell Lab of

Ornthology -

http://www.listenforwhales.org/NetCommu

nity/Page.aspx?pid=430

Diatoms

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III

Adding Images to a Placemark

1. Right click on the placemark you want to

add a picture to and choose Properties

from the menu to edit the placemark.

2. Click above the text you entered from

before and hit enter to make room for the

code for the picture.

3. NOTE: All pictures must already be

loaded on the Internet. You can access

pictures by searching for images in

Google or by using a photosharing site

such as Flickr (http://www.flickr.com) or

Photobucket

(http://www.photobucket.com) to upload

your own pictures.

4. Bring up a web browser.

5. Type in the address for Google Search

(http://www.google.com)

6. Click on images link in the upper left

corner of the screen.

7. Type in Southern Right Whales in the

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8. Click on an image of your choice that

relates to the project.

9. Click on See Full-Size Image at the top

of the screen.

10.Right click to bring up the menu and

choose Properties. This will bring up an

Element Properties dialog box which

contains information on the image.

11.Highlight the location code for the image.

It should start withhttp: and end with a

file extension, such as .jpg.

12.Click above the first text entry and then

hit enter to move the text down. Copy

this information into the placemark. I like

to put my images above the information

in the placemark.

13.Click before the http: and add the

following information:

14.Click OK to save the information.

15.Click on the placemark to view the

information.

16.NOTE: You can add links, images, video,

and other objects to your placemark but

you will need to understand some XHTML



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code. In the appendix, Ive provided a

crib sheet that I give my students.



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Adding Video to a Placemark

1. You can embed video into a placemark

to add some dynamic content. To do

this, open an Internet browser and

navigate to YouTube.com or anothervideo sharing site such as Google or

DailyMotion.com.

2. In the Search box, type in your

search criteria. For this exercise we

will search on Southern Right Whales,

which is the type of whale discussed in

The Whale Rider.

3. Choose a short video that you like.

Once you have one that you would like

to embed, look for the Embed code.

For YouTube.com it is typically shown

on the right side of the screen under

the Link code.

4. Copy and paste the Embed code into

a placemark that you are working on.

5. Click OK to save the code and then

click on the placemark to view it.

6. NOTE: You can also add text above this

embedded object or below it by using

the text formatting codes we discussed

earlier.

7. A great place to find educationalvideos is the Census of Marine Life

Projects video gallery -

http://www.coml.org/video/index.html

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Embedding a Document or Spreadsheet into a Placemark

1. You can use the same embed code to

embed a document or spreadsheet into

a placemark in Google Earth. For this

project you might consider havingstudents use Google Docs

(http://docs.google.com) to create a

spreadsheet on data about Southern

Right Whales or other organisms

mentioned in the text. Students could

obtain this information from one of the

data collection projects connected with

the Marine Census of Life -

http://www.coml.org/census-resources .

Some project quick links are shown tothe right. Or, they could search for

other online databases.

2. To embed a document/spreadsheet,

have students create their document

and then save it as a PDF file. To do

this, click File >> Save As and when

the menu appears, choose Adobe PDF

or another PDF creator, as shown to

the right.

3. I then have students sign up for a

Scribd.com account and upload their

document there.

4. Have them copy the Embed code

that is provided by Scribd.com as

indicated by the blue highlighted code

to the right.

5. Open a placemark and paste the code

into the placemark where you want it

to appear. Remember that you can

add text above or below it to explain

what the presentation is about by

using the text formatting code

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discussed earlier.



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Embedding PowerPoints into a Placemark

1. You can use the same embed code

to embed a PowerPoint Presentation

into a placemark in Google Earth.

For this project you might consider

having students create a

multimedia presentation on the

biology of Southern Right Whales,

Oceanography, or the Ecology of

New Zealand.

2. To embed a presentation, have

students create their PowerPoint

and then save it as a PDF file. To do

this, click File >> Save As and when

the menu appear, choose Adobe

PDF or another PDF creator, as

shown to the right.

3. I then have students sign up for a

SlideShare.com account and upload

their presentation there.

4. Have them copy the Embed code

that is provided by SlideShare.com

as indicated by the blue highlighted

code to the right.

5. Open a placemark and paste the

code into the placemark where you

want it to appear. Remember that

you can add text above or below it

to explain what the presentation is

about by using the text formattingcode discussed earlier.



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Using a Dreamweaver Template to Layout Elements in a Placemark

1. Open a web browser, such as Internet

Explorer and type in the address for

The Whale Rider Project in the

address bar of your browser:

http://whaleriderproject.wikispaces.co

m

2. On the right-hand side of your screen

under Resources, click on the

Documents page link.

3. Scroll down and look for the

Placemark Template Code file and

double click on it to open it.

4. If it asks you if you want to save it or

open it, choose Open with and

choose Microsoft Word from the drop

down list. Then click OK.

5. Copy and paste the code from the

Word document into the placemark.

6. Click OK to save the template to your

icon.

7. Double click on the icon to see what

the template looks like. There is a

banner which ties together each

placemark and gives them a common

appearance. There is also a place for

you to write about your project, add

the results of your data and also toadd an image. The image could be of

you or a friend taking a water quality

test, or you could place an image of a

graph in the picture place holder.

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Changing the Placeholder Text in the Template

8. If you navigated away from the

Documents page of The Whale Rider

Projectreturn to that page by clicking

on the Documents link on the left-side of the wikispace.

9. On the documents page, scroll down

and open the file The Whale

RiderTemplate Guide.

10.As with opening the file in the last

section, if it asks you if you want to

save it or open it, choose Open with

and choose Microsoft Word from thedrop down list. Then click OK.

11.When the file opens, take a couple of

minutes to review it. This document

explains some of the code and shows

you where to substitute your text with

the place holder text. Items on the

right in the boxes give you directions

on what to do. Arrows point from the

boxes to the text where you shouldsubstitute your information. A section

of this document is shown to the right.

12.If you have any questions about where

to place your text, you should ask your

instructor.

13.We will be editing each sections and

then saving it. Once you have

replaced the text for a section, click OKon the placemark.



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Animating Tours

1. With the release of 5.0 the free version

of Earth, you now have the ability to

create animated tours of your

placemark balloons.

2. To create a tour, click on the video

camera icon in the tool bar. A small

recording tool bar will appear at the

bottom of the Earth window.

3. Click the Record button represented

by the red dot.

4. To add audio to the recording, click onthe microphone and speak.

5. To stop the recording, click on the red

dot again.

6. To review the recording, click on the

Play button.

7. To save the recording, click the Save

button. Then name the tour. You couldalso add a description of the tour if you

want. As with other placemarks, the

description will handle text and other

formatting code.

8. Click OK to save the tour. Also, make

sure to click the X on the recorder.

Having the recorder open, limits other

functions in Google Earth.

9. NOTE: Make sure to move this tour

placemark into your folder for the

Whale Rider before you export it.