Links to Google Earth Resources:

• Google Earth version 5.0 | KML Tutorial
• Creating Historic Image Overlays
• Google Earth Outreach
  • Placemark HTML templates (baloons)
• Creating KML from a spreadsheet | Cleveland Memory Example
• Pro Version Educational License Application (1 year - difference between versions)
• Picasa GeoTag Video photo example
• Google Earth Community | Video Help | Sightseer Newsletter
• Google Earth Library (Matt Fox - Historic Maps)
• GPS Visualizer | KML Overlay Creator | Network Link Example: Adena
• Classroom20 ning.com
• Google Earth Blog.com Science
• Ogle Earth Blog
• NASA Google Earth Datasets
• Coral Reef Watch
• Virtual Tour of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake | Recent Earthquake Activity (USGS)
• World Wind - Google Earth Comparison
• Our Earth as Art (NASA)
• Night Lights of the World
• Animated Timeline showing progress of Airplane Flights (Timeline Instructions)
• Measurement - Smoots [Oliver Smoot's height (5"7") when he was used to measure Harvard Bridge in 1958)

Google Maps can display a subset of the KML used by Google Earth

• Google Maps Create Personalized Maps
• add image overlays using Google Earth kml
  Example: Adena (copy link location and paste into search maps box)
• Google Moon | Google Mars
• Acme mapper combines Google Maps and Terraserver topos/aerial photos. Columbus, OH

Links to Microsoft Bing (Virtual Earth) Resources (no installation required - use Firefox browser on Mac)

• Windows Live Local - Microsoft Virtual Earth
• Overlays: Mapcruncher - Example: Navarre/Dover Ohio example

Geography Resources

• National Geographic Society MapMachine Xpeditions
• National Council for Geography Education
• USGS (US Geological Survey) Education
  • Geographic Names Information System (download official names and locations - propose new/updated names)
• Newbery Library: Historic Maps in the K-12 Classroom
• Geographic Information Systems (using ArcGIS - Harvard University Graduate School of Design)

updated 1/8/2010