Inspire Connect Engage Create
Google Maps – Distance Measurement Tool
Similar Ideas
| Print article | This entry was posted by tbarrett on December 18, 2009 at 9:18 pm, and is filed under Google, Mapping, Maths. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site. |
No trackbacks yet.
Embedding Google Maps on Your Blog or Website
about 2 weeks ago - View Comments
This is a pretty straight forward process, but it also can have a variety of different outcomes depending on which map you want to display. It is useful to know these options to offer a richer visual experience on your blog or website.
Here is the basic run through:
Navigate to the location on Google Maps
Newspaper Car Park
about 2 weeks ago - View Comments
At the London offices of Google they have a Google Earth tour displayed on a wall of the reception area. I happened to spot this quirky use of space by an Amsterdam based newspaper printing company.
View Larger Map
According to James Turnbull and the Google Sightseeing blog the translations include:
“Entree” = “Entrance”
“Afhalen kranten” = “Pick-up newspapers”
“Parkeren
Smoots Away!
about 1 month ago - View Comments
Today I suddenly spotted the little ruler icon for the Distance Measurement Tool in Google Maps – click on the image to take a closer look at how to switch it on.
What is a Smoot?
Similar IdeasNewspaper Car ParkEmbedding Google Maps on Your Blog or WebsiteAddition in Adelaide – A New Maths MapGoogle Maps Session at
3 New “Interesting Ways” Resources
about 1 month ago - View Comments
Three new presentations have been kickstarted and are great additions to the collection. Interesting Ways to use the iPad, Google Search and Google Maps in the classroom. Please take a look and consider adding an idea to one of them. I will be updating the links on the collection page too.
Similar IdeasEmbedding Google Maps on Your Blog
Google Maps Session at #GTAUK
about 1 month ago - View Comments
During the Google Teacher Academy UK I ran a 30 minute session on Google Maps. It was a bit of a whirlwind of a training session but hopefully allowed the participants the chance to briefly play with Maps and also to think about how we could use Maps in a different way.
Here are some of
Seeing Ripples
about 5 months ago - View Comments
When you share your classroom experiences and ideas, one thing you hope for is that they are transferable to other classrooms. This week I was delighted to see three examples of my ideas being successfully applied elsewhere.
The first is from Peter Richardson a primary school teacher in Preston who took my idea for using Voicethread for peer
Looking Back
about 8 months ago - View Comments
The sun will soon be rising on 2010 and I just wanted to look back at a hugely eventful year for me personally. Here are some of the things that have been memorable.
Last Christmas we spent our holidays in Australia. It was an amazing trip for me and I would dearly love to return to
SABOTAGE! A Lesson in Open Crowd-Sourcing
about 9 months ago - View Comments
UPDATE: I have had an email from a teacher in Melbourne, Australia who has explained that it was her students who messed up the Paris map. It was by accident and not at all malicious, they were trying to create a Maths Map of their own for Melbourne. I am relieved to hear that it
Shapes in Paris – NEW Maths Map
about 10 months ago - View Comments
Hot on the heals of Measures in Madrid here is the next addition to the Maths Maps series. Shapes in Paris makes the most of this beautiful city and the maths that is visible in Google Maps.
SHAPE IN PARIS
View 24 Shape Activities in Paris in a larger map
I have had a lot of fun exploring
Maths Maps – A New Collaborative Project
about 10 months ago - View Comments
I am excited to introduce you to my new project idea that I hope will result in some engaging content for our classes. It is collaborative in the same way the Interesting Ways resources are and I will need your help to make it a success.
Elevator Pitch
Using Google Maps.
Maths activities in different places around the
about 1 month ago
Thanks a landlord it! I acquired yet some insight. Life is so colorful, we should be able to live in, such as Korea and honor the planet. Human life is like rivers, slowly flowing, flowing rivers, flowing through the snow, flows through the prairie and ultimately into the sea, return to the embrace of nature, start a new reincarnation. Allow us to feel the meaning of life will come only to those you have those memories http://www.cheap-nikeshox.com/nike-shox-TL3.html
about 8 months ago
Hi Tom – brilliant – have you also looked at gmaps-pedometer? It sometimes has 'slightly interesting' adverts alongside, but brilliant nonetheless!
about 8 months ago
Hi Tom – brilliant – have you also looked at gmaps-pedometer? It sometimes has 'slightly interesting' adverts alongside, but brilliant nonetheless!