AnthroSpace

Excerpt from today’s Google Blog:

“The new Geographic Web layer we released today is one of those features. We’ve taken the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community and made a browsable layer in Google Earth. Now you can fly anywhere in the world and see what people have written about it, photographed, or posted. I went hopping around from the southern tip of South America to the mosques in the Middle East to the Maldives Islands, immersed in a wealth of information, and I really felt like I was visiting each place through eyes of people who had been there. It was really engaging to compare, say, the Grand Canyon through the photos in Panoramio to the view from Google Earth, where I could follow the Colorado River through each.

To experience this for yourself, all you need to do is start Google Earth and explore the world. As of today you will see new icons -— the Wikipedia globe, the Panoramio star, or the information “i” of the Google Earth Community —- so just click on any of them to explore information about a place. You can also easily turn it off in the Layers panel on the lower left.”

GIS, mapping, and spatial reasoning are the focus of Latitude, NITLE’s GIS Initiative. It promotes the use of mapping and GIS for the purposes of developing and enhancing a spatial understanding of liberal arts curricula.
The NITLE Geographic Information System Initiative provides resources to get started with GIS. Including free online geographic information systems tutorials.

Below are a few pointers.

Google suggests:

http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html

This is k12:

http://www.teachinghacks.com/2006/11/03/google-earth-as-a-classroom-tool/

From the Google Earth blog:

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/08/back_to_school.html