15-20 Sept 2008
Alaska, USA
Overview
The University of Alaska Fairbank's Geography program has teamed up with Google's Geo Education group to spend a week visiting schools in Alaska. During the week in September 2008, the 8-person team will visit high schools in rural communities and present demonstrations and lessons that showcase the capabilities of Google geo-products and KML (Keyhole Markup Language).
Schedule of visits:
Mon 15th Sept - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Tue 16th Sept - Barrow High School
Thu 18th Sept - Kotzebue High School
Fri 19th Sept - Nome Beltz High School
Google Geo Education
Google's Geo Education website provides helpful information on using Google Earth, Maps, Sky, and SketchUp in your K-12 classroom. This suite of products has been identified as a powerful learning toolkit that can help your students conceptualize, visualize, share, and communicate information about the world around them. The Google Geo Educators team hopes these tools will empower you to bring the world's geographic information to your students in a compelling, fresh, and fun way.
Follow this link for ideas of subjects that Google Geo Tools can illustrate in the classroom.
Blogs
Read our blog about our travels and teaching in Alaska with posts from UAF and Google members of our team at Alaska Geo Trip 2008
A daily diary of activities and highlights on the Google Lat-Long Blog:
Introduction, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Conclusions
An introduction to the trip can be found at:
The Official Google Blog.