My Google Earth Project

My google earth project is all about all of the places I go on a regular basis. It starts with my house, and then my dads. Then It goes to My High School, Then My girlfriends house, then my friends house. Then it goes to Where my Football team played. Then The rest Are just random places i want to go or have gone to.

Curran's Google Earth Project

My Google Earth project is on all the NBA stadiums around the United States/Canada. The whole deal with the project was suppose to be me traveling to 30 stadiums and games in 30 days. I chose to do this because I love to watch basketball and it's my favorite sport. In my project i got the dates of each building when it was first opened and the total production cost. I also have the new and updated stadium names. 

In order for me to really complete this task it would cost me a significant amount of money. It would also give me major jet lag from changing from time zone to time zone. If someone did actually complete this task I would be really surprised and it would motivate me more to do it. So if I could, I would travel to 30 NBA stadiums in 30 days.

Tyler's Google Earth

My project is on baseball stadiums around the world that I would like to visit. As you will see in my project the baseball stadiums in the United States are more developed than any other country. That means one thing, the US likes baseball a lot. Baseball is my favorite sport so I thought it would be cool to travel around the world and see other baseball stadiums, but as I found out, there is no place like the US.
One thing that I found that worked well was organizing the places beforehand. One thing I did not like was how it took so long to see the 3D stadiums. I struggled with finding the stadiums around the world and their addresses. Once I found the city it was in I searched all over the city and found a baseball field. Overall it was challenging.

Lexi's Google Earth Project

My Google Earth project is about a few of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. I chose to do this topic because literature is one of my interests and the Nobel Prize is a prestigious award. I decided to do winners from all over the world because I found their cultures and reasons for writing intriguing. For features I used image overlays, so you could see a picture of all the winners, layers and also distance measuring.
I had a lot of trouble with layers because I couldn’t find any that were relevant to my project, but in the end I found some that worked. The easiest feature to use was image overlay, all you had to do was find the picture and upload it into the description. In using Google Earth I would suggest knowing exactly what you’re going to do and making sure you can make a great project out of it. All in all Google Earth is a fascinating application, but is very confusing to use at times.

Bre's GE Project

My project is basically about my life, where I've been on vacation, and where I stayed while I was on vacation. The features I chose to use were layers, image overlays, and paths. I chose this topic because I wanted to do something that was simple, but that was about my life. I chose these features because they were the easiest and I knew how to do them. =)
I think what worked well was probably the layers. Because they showed up automatically and it was just a click. What didn't work so well was that I put a picture in there of where I stayed in Hawaii, and it didn't show up. It's just a big X. I think the only tip I have is that make sure you have good nerves because if you decide to do a path that is really long, you need to be able to have the nerves and patients to do it.

-Bre

My google earth project

My google earth project is on the top 10 hottest places on earth. It was actually difficult to find because the websites i chose only displayed the top 8. But, I placed them in order. You may need to search for my 1st one, I dont know exactly where it is. Anyways, the information was obviously very easy to find.
I wouldn't mind going to any of those places, since I love going to new places and I love hot weather. That is why I chose this as my topic. I got to learn about a few new places, most of them I had never heard of before. It was actually a very simple project, It almost seemed to easy, I hope I did it right,

Kyle's Project

My migration is the life of Stevie Ray Vaughan. He was a famous Blues musician. I chose his life because I didn't know much about him. The most interesting fact i found was about the day he decided to become a musician. He was working at a fast food restaurant and fell in to grease up to his chest. I chose to use the ruler feature to find the distance from East Troy, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. I did an image overlay of a picture of his gravesite. I placed a polygon over Washington D.C. because I couldn't find exactly where he preformed. 

The Ruler feature gave me a little trouble because it wouldn't show up on my project. I liked the polygon feature because i could cover a whole area with exactly pointing out were he preformed. I also liked the finished product of the migration because it was so smooth once everything was set. 

Google Earth

I did the trips and place's that I've been to through my life. I marked the locations of all the places I have lived. I took a picture of the Bath Village School and used the image overlay feature. I marked a path from my house in Swiftwater to the Bath Village School. I also measured the distance from the Woodsville High School to the Woodsville Elementary School.

Some things I enjoyed about Google Earth was making paths. I liked being able to zoom in and see all objects in 3D. A difficulty I had with Google Earth was that all places had to be checked in order to save and the map tends to move on its own.

Bri's Google Earth Project

For my Google Earth Project, I chose to show the hometowns of my favorite basketball players of both college level and NBA and WNBA levels. There are many tools in Google Earth like paths and image overlay. I used both of these to show pictures of the players. I used paths to show moves that some players did as a child. There is no specific order to which i show the players because I admire all of them the same. 

Using the application Google Earth was very complicated and some tools used on it don't make sense. Some difficulties that I faced was the polygon tool. I have yet to figure out what this tool is used for but I used it to show a large area that I was talking about. The path feature was also tricky because if it is a large area that needs to be connected, it can be difficult to connect. Overall, I like this application because it is easy to find directions for long distances and the pictures are very clear and understandable. Technology has advanced very much over the years and Google Earth definitely shows it with it's details, right down to the cars in the parking lot. 

Teasha's Google Earth Project

What is my project about, what features did I used, etc.?

• I chose to do a project on the places around the world that I would like to see or visit in my life time. I find the following places in my project extremely tempting to visit, and my topic I believe is great. I like sharing what I want to do in life with others, this is just another way to do it. Some of the features that are featured in my project are the image overlay feature, drawing paths and polygons, and measuring distances and areas. I used these features because they were honestly the simplest for me to use and I understood how they worked.
  

What worked well, what didn't work well, what did i struggle with, etc?

• When I was on Google Earth, I'm going to have to say that almost every feature that I attempted to use, didn't work more than once. The polygon feature is the only one that didn't really give me a problem. It was frustrating for me to use the features because they didn't seem to save, exspecially the measuring distances and areas. No matter how many times I seemed to save the project, it would never save the line and or distance that I had measured. What was also frustrating was that all of my image overlays didn't save, and I mean all of them. I had to overlay all of my images all over again. All together it was hard for me to make and prepare this project.
  

My Constructive Feedback on two other students!

• Austin A.
  
• Alicia B.
  

my google project

in my google project i made a story about the top ten places to visit in 2008. my favorite place that i would have wanted to visit is Lisbon. i choose Lisbon because it is a nice hot place wit halot of people. there is no particular order for the places to travel. but i have multiple places so if you travel have fun.

Alicia's Google Earth Project

Google Earth was kind of confusing at first. We had to choose a topic about migration (movement). I decided to do this project about places I want to go in Japan. A lot of people sometimes think that Japan and China are the same...but they aren't. Japan is, technology wise, more advanced than China. China makes a lot of their products cheap, so many different countries can use their merchandise. Japan has many large cities and interesting landmarks, like it's many different castles and formations. Japan is a very interesting topic to learn about and that is why I chose it and I'm also a very big fan of Japan.

There were many things that were confusing about this project. At first, I didn't really know what I was going to do. I knew I wanted to do something about Japan, but the exact subject. After struggling to find a subject for about a day, I decided to just look for places I wanted to visit in Japan. At one point, when I was almost done with my project, an alert popped up and it said "Tour Failed," I didn't know what to do. I think that happen because I had a lot of different things opened in Google Earth. So that gave a few problems also, but I managed to get around it. Overall, This was a pretty interesting project.

Features I used in my Project:

• Image Overlay (Most of the places I have in this project)
  
• Polygon tool (On Mount Fuji)
• Placemarks (All the places I have in my project)
• Paths
• Layers
  

Google Earth-Beaches

Throughout using google earth I had many difficulties. At first my computer didn't even work so I had to use a laptop, then my laptop didn't save my work so I had to redo it all. Eventually I was able to get onto google earth yet still wasn't sure of what exactly I was doing. My first topic was going to be places I've gone and want to go but then discovered there were many people doing the same thing and I wanted something different. Soon I thought of unique hotels in various areas that many people have recommended and areas I would like to go sometime. But that didn't work out because the addresses wouldn't allow to be accessed on google earth. I finally found what I wanted to do my project on which was beaches I would like to go. I found many that I enjoyed but put 10 on. 

I didn't understand the program at first and even asked for help, but soon I was able to understand it better and found it quite easy to use and I really ended up enjoying the project as well as google earth.  

Austin's Google Earth

As I started working with the unfamiliar application: Google Earth, I found difficulty in coming up with a topic that worked. I wanted to create a project featuring something around the NBA. I did research and uncovered that Chucky Brown, played for 11 different teams throughout his career. A great topic for migration I thought to myself. I decided that I was going to choose the home arenas in which Chucky represented.

I thought, that finding the addresses for the stadiums was going to be ridiculously difficult, however it turned out to be really easy. All I had to do was figure out the name of the arena and type that in. After I had completed, and went the next day to run through it, all of my pictures were red x’s. I couldn’t figure out what happened until I had remembered that I had thrown them away. All I had to do was take it out of the trash. I really like this program, because it allows you to see the world, without getting out of your chair.

Sam Roys Google Earth

Google Earth is a pretty cool application. I liked how you could explore the world just on the computer seeing everything that you would want. I think that Google Earth would be a pretty cool way to present projects only if you know how to use it.
There are some glitches with it though. Some of the things you can do with Google Earth are poorly explained so you will not know how to use them. I also do not like that you cannot measure paths that you make. That would make the application a lot easier.
My project was on different ski mountains that I have migrated to. I have many views of the ski mountains like an aerial view and from the front of the mountain. I had a lot of fun doing this project. I only wish I knew how to do some of the more advanced things on it. Maybe I will learn them with my spare time.
Overall I think Google Earth was one of my favorite applications. They could make it a little bit easier to use but there needs to be a little challenge in everything.

Damian's Google Earth

well my project consists of my childhood and were i was living and were i currently live now.

Google Earth Project

I did my past vacations in Google earth as my project. I also did cool stuff that i found like the space shuttle transporter. It was easy for me to learn the application. It was kind of like teach yourself which made it much easier for me. It seemed like it wouldn't be too helpful in everyday life. It would just be a fun thing like find your house an stuff like that. There isn't really a serious use for it.

Tina's Google Earth

My GE is follows my entire life from since when I was four years old. It's supposed to start in Nashua, NH where I was born and raised. It should zoom into 63 Tolles Street where I used to live. It should then it should zoom into 10 Manchester Street, Nashua, NH which is where I went to elementary school at Mount Pleasant. Then it should zoom into 207 Manchester Street, Nashua, NH which is where I went to middle school at Pennichuck Middle School. The next stop is at 10 Chuck Druding Drive. This is where I went to high school, Nashua High School North. After that, it's supposed to zoom into Woodsville, NH where I moved to on my 15th birthday, October 9th. It was the absolute worst birthday of my life (hahaha). It should zoom into 374 White Mountain Drive, Woodsville, NH where you should see a pretty lake. This is Mountain Lakes, abundant in leechs and (obviously) trees, so many that you can't even see my house. The last stop should be at 9 High Street, Woodsville, NH where I go to school now as a sophomore at Woodsville High School.

If I knew I was going to be posting this, I wouldn't have done my project on this topic. It kind of freaks me out that now I have to describe every detail of my life and people can pretty much stalk me down. Hopefully, no one is that determined...

Okay, so I guess this presentation is also the wrong one, but that's okay because either way it wasn't going to be marvelous. This presentation is missing a few points in my life apparently. 

Obviously I found this project extremely difficult. I can't even figure out how to save it correctly. ''/

Odessa's GE

My project consisted of places I've been and places I want to go. I've never travelled outside of the United States, so a lot of the places I want to go is outside of the United States. A lot of the main places and such were based in New Zealand. I've always been drawn to New Zealand and it's always been appealing to me. I used a decent amount of image overlays in certain places. Every single time I did an image overlay I brought down the image opacity a little bit because I felt as if it made it look a little better. I used paths and such, although I felt as if using the path tool was rather pointless. I used to show how there is a walk-around-path around White Lake- which is a place I have been to quite a few times over the years.

I am personally the type of person that like to learn things on my own. Google Earth was pretty easily to learn. Google Earth has it's cute quirks, but I felt as if Google Earth was kind of poorly made. I believe there is a lot of potential to make Google Earth better. The image overlays were quite helpful to help portray a better visual. I don't like how Google Earth is so slow. It takes a while to load up and lags especially when zooming in and out. I give the program credit for making something like this, but I personally don't like it and I think they have more potential to create something a little or more better. I think I could have put a little more effort in my project, and I would have if I had more time. I've been out sick a lot. I honestly dont have much for tips because the program is pretty simple to understand and get used to.

Philip's GE

In my Google Earth project, the three features that I used were image overlay, paths, and I measured the distance between the points. The image overlay was probably the easiest. The other two features were kind of hard to figure out, though. Eventually I figured it out, though. 

Everything was pretty easy. Some of the things took a little bit to figure out though. The image overlay gave me a little bit of trouble because after I put the pictures in, the next day when I opened up Google Earth, all of my images were red x's. This was because I saved the images in my server folder. All I had to do was take the photos out of my server and put them on my desktop and it worked.