The Techno Cheetah

Two new 5th grade projects have been added to the Student Project Gallery.

1. Mrs. Rudo’s homeroom class took diaries entries they wrote during language arts and created a multimedia video with pictures and narration of the diaries.

2. Ms. Fabre’s, Ms. Thompson’s, and Mrs. Westendorf’s classes created class Google Earth Tours showing “Wonders of the World.”

Last school year, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders all completed an activity using Google Earth.  Google Earth quickly became a favorite application among the students.  This upcoming year, the tech teacher laptops will have the newest version of Google Earth.  One of the upgrades that I really like in the new version is the date stamp.  When zooming in on an area the date the satellite photo was taken appears on the bottom right of the screen.  In the picture below you can see that the satellite photo of Bellows Spring was taken in February 2002.  This makes sense, as there’s a lot of brown around the school because although the outside of the school was built, it was still a construction zone.

If you don’t have Google Earth on your computer, you can download it free from the Google Earth website. (Students, please get assistance from your parents before doing this.)  To see the other cool upgrades in Google Earth 4.3 watch the video below.