Today I saw that almost every source I look at on a daily basis was filled with buzz about the impending roll out of Google Buzz. From what I could gather, it looks like an addition to Gmail (email) accounts which behaves much more like Facebook, in that it allows for much more social interaction [...]

The more I use the 3DConnexion Space Navigator for notebooks, the better I like it. I have about four hours of practice under my belt now, and quite honestly, can’t even consider going back to merely using a mouse to navigate in Google Earth again (except under duress!). As with adapting to any new controller [...]

I am in the progress of making a Wiimote replacement or a smartboard. Actually I am in the process if making at least two different versions of this idea I first saw online almost three years ago. I also am in the process of making some Atlas gloves (‘light’ gloves to remotely control Google Earth…). [...]

I have some projects related to Google Earth coming up (actually I am just waiting for some components to arrive…), and in the mean time I decided to try to answer the question: “Why spend the time on Google Earth?” There are a number of self evident aspects of this free program to answer why [...]

I’ve been reading blogs for years, and one of the small things that I don’t like is the ‘insider’ use of jargon. Just the name ‘blog’ is jargon (a shortening of web-log). The term ‘blogroll’ always sounded like some strange ethnic food or maybe one of those new overly processed snack foods that are always [...]

I have been getting more and more involved in ways to use Google Earth as a classroom presentation tools. First, I am in the midst of preparing a variety of different interactive ways to use this program while using a projector. This will include a variety of experiments and tests using the ‘Atlas gloves’, and [...]

I have already shown how I will be working on building and setting up a variety of ‘replacements’ for a smartboard. This is because effectively presenting information in a classroom has become quite stale over the years. Reliance in presenting a series of PowerPoint slides filled with some bullet points can cause students to wish [...]

I teach social studies (whenever I can…), and I am always a bit dismayed by how little used Google Earth is. Google Earth is a free program (Windows and Mac…) that allows you to look ever the whole planet earth, by its presentation of satellite imagery, laced together into a useful replica of the planet [...]