Where on Google Maps are ya?
All I can say is WOW!!
I loved playing with the features to create a customised map. You can have a look at my first attempt here. This opened up all sorts of little ideas for me. the first and most obvious is for work based on travel and tourism. Planning an orienteering route could be another application. Learners could enhance their understanding of biography writing by using this tool to plot the main events in a person's lief, and creating information boxes at key stages with facts about the person. In an historical context, learners can visit the scene of famous events in history, and find and investigate the places where online learning e-pals live. The satellite imagery gives learners a first hand view of the congested living in London - to be compared to Darwin perhaps. And perhaps learners would like to spend a day in the life of someone in a big city. Learners could invent a person, create a real place of employment, and a real home address, then they could have a virtual day in the life...by taking google earth walk through their daily activities. What a great way for students to understand how different life is in a other place.