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Google Tracks Santa in 2008

It seems that nearly 10 million people this year tracked Santa's progress from Russia to Hawaii this year, thanks to Google Earth's Santa Tracker at
  www.noradsanta.org.  That's a whole lot of lucky kids all over the world. For the full story check out:  http://www.sitepronews.com/2008/12/27/how-google-tracked-santa-in-2008/

Google Earth Usage Set to Explode

Many cities in the US are represented in 3D landscape on Google Earth. Many more are on the way.

SOURCE: http://3dwalkthrough.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-york-in-3d-google-earth-style.html

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Amazing Features of Google Earth

Google Earth is one of the best and amazing feature, a satellite based imagery mapping product that brings the entire world on your computer. It allows the users to fly from the street level to space to collect more geographical information and explore the different places in the world. It is a three dimensional model of the whole planet system that allows you to spin, zoom or grab down anywhere on the Earth. Its new feature also allows you to tour to the distant cities with Google StreetView. You can see photo realistic three dimensional buildings and also show your children the sunset all over the world through its new sunlight feature.

Google Earth helps you to collect al the information right form literature to science from all over the world in a lively form. It can be used actively in classroom situation to give demonstrations to the students interested and excited to know more about geography. You can use its different layers to study demographics, economics, transportation, etc in particular contexts. For example: study the impact craters, dry lake beds, plains and plateaus in a particular area and many other landforms. You can see the tectonic plate shift evidence by observing the different mountain ranges, continents and areas affected due to volcanoes. The real time co-ordinates can be used to know distance calculations and verify the results with the help of the measuring tools available.

Google Earth can also be used as an effective tool to explore different issues like impact of civilization on the natural environment, growth of cities, progress of human civilization, effects of the natural disasters, etc. with the help of Google Sketchup and historical overlays, you can recreate all the ancient cities. The only limitation in Google Earth is your imagination. Don’t limit your imagination up to a single planet Earth. Boost your imagination using the Google Sky in Google Earth and you will be able to explore the night sky. No need to go to an auditorium or wait for the night to gaze at the wonderful sky. Capture the wonders of space and universe anytime, anywhere sitting in your homes at one lace.

Have fun with Google Earth as you can do a number of things you haven’t even thought about with the Google Earth. You can see the images of your homes, schools or any other place that you wish on Google Earth. With a click of a button, it will immediately take you to that location. You can go for a world tour with the help of Google Earth. Give directions to others from one place to another and follow the same route. You can see other wonderful features and locations that are made by the other Google Earth users. You can view the 3D image of any buildings or terrain of a place. You can get instant weather information of any place or location.

With these interesting features, Google Earth is gaining a lot of popularity nowadays. It is the best accessory you can explore to m-know more about the world and the universe.

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Students work with Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp

December 11th, 2008 | Category: Google SketchUp, Grade 6, Grade 7

Mr. Hoover’s Grade 6 and 7 students are currently learning 3D modeling with the free program, Google SketchUp.

So what is SketchUp? (taken from Google’s SketchUp site)

“Google SketchUp, whose award-winning toolset was developed for architects to help them design buildings, is modeling software that empowers designers – alone or in teams – to explore complex design ideas in 3D. SketchUp is a great tool for easily teaching kids to construct 3D models of buildings, trees, cars, and the like.

There are any number of lessons – from learning about area and volume to studying building and community design – whose concepts are best illustrated in 3D. Students can use SketchUp to visualize geometry and other mathematical concepts, create models to learn about architecture, and design everything from games and toys to models of spaceships and cars.

Theater and film students can use SketchUp to conceptualize their sets. Students can use it to participate in community development projects that involve CAD, GIS, or other design applications. SketchUp can help math students at all levels to better understand geometric concepts. And 3D design can easily be added to any number of classroom projects that aren’t directly design-related, from designing a set for a Shakespeare play to creating visualizations of historical settings or getting students excited about history by building a virtual history museum.”

One exciting possibility is to have the students design an intricate model of NJIS, and if accepted by Google, to be placed within Google Earth for the entire world to view! Examples of this type of work can be viewed in Google Earth already; simply take a look at New York City for example, and you’ll be able to view 3D modeling in action with the skyscrapers and famous landmarks – all created in Google SketchUp!

A few works in progress by our students are listed below:

What’s next? Anything is possible!

Image borrowed from SpiegelOnline

SOURCE: http://www.njis.org/tech/?p=29

The Best Way to get the the Sun to Shine on your Solar Panels?

:282 Solar Orientation

Filed under: :282 Solar Orientation — Tags: environment, ecotip, 1:5:10:365, solar, google earth, google sketchup, orientation, solar panel — John Banta @ 12:09 am

Welcome to today’s 1:5:10:365 Tip for becoming a better steward for our home and planet environment.

1:5:10:282 EcoTip: You can use Google SketchUp with Google Earth to check your current or proposed home’s solar orientation.

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Once you have placed your Google SketchUp design for your home on the chosen geographic site in Google Earth, you can check the solar orientation for various times of the day and year to determine the optimum placement and orientation for new construction, or to consider modifications for existing buildings. The software downloads are free at Google Earthand Google SketchUp.

You can find more information about using these programs for determining the best location for solar panels on your building and using SketchUp’s real-time shadow engine to perform a rapid sun-exposure analysis at http://sketchup.google.com/green/solar.html

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Google could come up with own ‘Second Life’

Word on the street has it that Google will soon be sticking its fingers in an area that is currently dominated by Second Life - that is, the virtual world space. This interest of Google will focus particularly in light of the increasing interest of existing environments such as Second Life in addition to the success of Google Earth as well as Google’s very own purchase of the SketchUp technology. It seems that Google’s interest has moved beyond mere talk and is already currently testing their own 3D virtual world technology in a secret experiment at Arizona State University.

A report published on Monday from eMarketer stated that Google is “planning enhancements to Google Earth to let users connect virtually with one another.” It goes without saying that the lack of finances and brainpower are the least of Google’s worries when it comes to creating a vast and powerful 3D virtual world, but the main ingredient to make the entire project a success would be user created content, and there is a possibility even a company like Google could trip up on that potential speedbump. Perhaps Google will utilize its Sketchup service to import vast amounts of precreated 3D content into a Google-run virtual world, the end result would not be the same as the one found in Second Life.

Source: coolest-gadgets.com

Sketchup and Google Earth

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We are taking a building that we have designed in sketchup and placing it in google earth. This technology is so incredible. Next we will take our office building in Shillong India and put it into google earth. In this way potential customers can come down from space and go directly into our office and look around. That is cool!

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