Friday, October 3, 2014

Tour Builder - a Google Earth experiment

Google is a great company for allowing their employees to be creative and think outside of the box. Awesome experiments are produced from this encouragement of open thinking.

Tour Builder (https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/) is one of those creative project experiments. It uses Google Earth and allows users to great virtual tours of the world that can follow a person's life, historical events, and company's growth journey. The possibilities for educational uses of tour builder are endless. Teachers can use it to bring their lessons to life. Students can use it to replace a traditional research paper. Applications could be made in many subject areas to track the path of a character, movement of a people, expedition, disease spread, etc. Give Tour Builder a try!

Watch this video of a teacher who uses Tour Builder to engage his history students:





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