Monday, February 11, 2008

Google Tools

Google Earth is wonderful! I'm teaching a current event class and the kids like seeing where the stories are coming from. Of course, the first thing they want to do is find their house! ...umm.. and I did too! My grandfather lives out in the country on 120 acres. It took a lot of navigation but I found his house. I was surprised I could get some images from Cuba! I used Google Earth when I taught a course on ArcView too.

The other tool I checked out was the igoogle. I didn't know they had that available. I half way set up a page. I already set up one for my grandfather with rss feeds using his internet company's version. I don't personal need or want one, but I see why some people would enjoy having them set up. The weather and calendar feature were the only thing of interest for me.

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