Search This Blog

About Me

My photo
I am 28 year old mother of one who is finally taking action and changing my career/ following my dream. At present I am a Mother, Wife, Student, Case Manager and Maitre'd in that order! For the past 7 years I have been working as a Case Manager and Youth Worker with a focus on Training and Mentoring for early school leavers. It was doing this that got me thinking about teaching and how I would like to work with young people before they leave school. I would eventually love to work as a Guidence Counsellor and put all my years working as in Case Management to good use but that is a longer term goal and I am taking things one day at a time!A you can see from the title of this blog I love quotes! So I will finish up with a quote that I love from one of my favorite authors,which I think summarizes this course perfectly for me! "Experience: the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” C.S Lewis

Monday, April 19, 2010

Google Earth How to use this technology in Teaching



Okay, So far this little image is about as far as I have gotten using google earth in teaching! at present I am attempting to create a virtual tour of the Fitzroy River Catchment Area for my Year 7 Integrated Unit "Catchment to Coast" and nothing seems to be happening! And Joe Wood made it look so easy!

How to use this technology in teaching? a virtual tour of the Fitzroy River Catchment area would have been a great way for me to introduce this topic to the students, that is  if I can actually complete it with my limited ICT skills! I have also added other areas of interest such as schools, parks and local landmarks on the map using the layers so that the students can form an idea of where they are placed in relation to the catchment area. Other ways that this technology could be used in teaching? Here are some suggested in our courseware from Joe Woods Wiki I would be lying if I said that I came up with anything on my own but I thought that this wiki was a terrific resource and definitely gave me some ideas to work with! So back to the drawing board and the Google Earth User Guide for me!

Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. Kylie GupwellApril 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM

    Hi Meegan,

    I am the same as you, all of this takes a lot of time, especially initially. However, with a little time and heaps of patience, the benefits of devices such as Google Earth are infinite.

    I think your blog looks fine, but I am certainly no expert!

    Cheers,
    Kylie

    ReplyDelete
  2. Meegan SommerfeldApril 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM

    Thanks Kylie!

    I am hopefully the more familiar I become with Google Earth the more efficient I will be!

    Meegan

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)