Google Earth

Today in class we met virtually.  We were given discussion questions to answer pertaining to our teaching certuification and Google Earth.  We were given a spreadsheet by Dr. Pierce titled "poop" where we incorporated our personal information containing our name, mailing address, blog address, web site and our e-mail addresses.   We then went to BatchGeocode.com and copied and pasted the information from the spreadsheet and mapped out all of the students locations that are currently taking this class. Here is the web address to view the map created in class http://www.batchgeo.com/map/c4b9d3cf93a5cd74e00ffd3e760364eb


ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

The skills used in this activity relate to the 21st Century Skills ICT Skills.

ICT Literacy Apply Technology Effectively

Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information
Use digital technologies (computers, PDAs, media players, GPS, etc.), communication/networking tools and social networks appropriately to, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, share, and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy.

We accessed a shared document (gdocs by email invitation.)
We input our information.
We created our own maps (using Batchgeo)
We also discussed the lack of experience and exposure to mapping tools such as Google Earth and Google Maps in previous classes.