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Google Earth TutorialsPart II Creating Basic Placemarks
Hosts Thomas Cooper, Alice Barr
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Placemarks Visualize Information
Text
Images
Web Links
Video Audio
Icons
Slides
Documents
Navigation
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Data Layers Contain Placemarks
Over 206 layers in the primary
data base
Major ones: roads, traffic,
weather, Wikipedia, National
Geographic, and global
awareness.
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Creating Basic Placemarks
Directions
1. Find the location on
earth you want the
placemark.
2. Click on the yellow
push pin in the toolbar
3. Name the placemark
4. Enter the text you
want to visualize.
5. Press OK.
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Editing Placemarks
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Directions
1. Right click on the placemark in the
Places panel
2. Choose properties from the menu3. Placemark will open, allowing you
to add information.
Hint: In order to change the location of
a placemark, you need to have the
properties box open.
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Organize Placemarks within Folders
Directions
1. Go to the Places panel
2. Right-click on MyPlaces icon
3. Add >> Folder
4. Name the folder
5. Click and drag anyplacemarks you have
crated into that folder
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Adding Text
Directions
1. Right click on theplacemark
2. Go to properties
3. Type in the text youwant
4. Use HTML tags toorganize text
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Text Header Tags
text -Largest
text
text
text
text
text -Smallest
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Aligning Text
Thistext will be alignedleft
This text will becentered
This text will bealigned right
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Images Need to Be Online
GE uses XHTML codeto refer to an imagestored online.
Use photosharingsites to store yourphotos: Facebook,Flickr, Picasa WebAlbum, Photobucket,or a Wiki
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Working with Images
Main Image Tag
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Anatomy of a Tag
Open Tags and Closed Tags
Open Tag and Close Tag
Tags are nested
Three parts of a tag: (tag, attribute, value)
Example
tag attribute value
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Adding Web Links
Main Tag Structure
Link
Text
Web Link
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Working with Email Links
For information on an Everest climbing trip contact me.
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Email Link
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Working with Lists
Equipment List
unordered list (or)
ordered list (1., 2., 3.)
list item onelist item two
or
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Use Rulers to Separate Page Elements
No closing tag
necessary
Can be set to a specific
length
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Saving Your Work
Directions1. Click and drag found
places into the folderyou created
2. Make sure the folder ischecked.
3. Collapse the folder
4. Highlight the folder byclicking on it.
5. Go to File >> Save As >>Save Place As
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Online HTML Tutorialshttp://www.w3schools.com/html/
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Elluminate Session Archivehttp://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com/Archive
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Presentation Slides & Resourceshttp://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com/Tutorials
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Next Session
Monday Nov. 23rd 8 pm EST
Google Earth Geometry
Topics: Points, Paths, & Polygons
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