Google Earth and other Geo Tools with the Partial Credit Podcast Guys

#EduDuctTape S04-E66

Three Google Earth Education Experts, Google Innovators, & Trainers—Jeffery Heil, Jesse Lubinsky, and Donnie Piercey join me to discuss different tools and features for exposing students to different geographical areas. The guys from the Partial Credit podcast tell us about Google Earth, Google Earth Voyages, Google Earth Engine, and more!

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Soapbox Moment: The Zappos EdTech Tool Mindset
- Barry Schwartz: “All of this choice . . . produces paralysis, rather than liberation. With so many options to choose from, people find it very difficult to choose at all.”
- Barry Schwartz: “Increased choice decreases satisfaction with matters as trivial as ice cream flavors and as significant as jobs. It [increased choice] requires increased time and effort and can lead to anxiety, regret, excessively high expectations, and self-blame if the choices don’t work out.”
- Jam study by psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper
- Barry Schwartz – “More Isn’t Always Better” – hbr.org/2006/06/more-isnt-always-better
- Barry Schwartz – “The Paradox of Choice” – ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice
Today’s Guests:
- Jesse Lubinsky (@jlubinsky) – Jesse Lubinsky is currently the Chief Learning Officer of Ready Learner One LLC and has nearly 20 years of public school experience as a teacher and administrator . He is co-author of “Reality Bytes: Innovative Learning Using Augmented and Virtual Reality” (January 2020) and “The Esports Education Playbook: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming” (November 2020). He is also co-host of the Partial Credit Podcast and the Ready Learner One Lounge, a virtual reality show focused on innovations in teaching and learning. He is a Google Certified Innovator & Trainer, a CoSN Certified Education Technology Leader, an Adjunct Professor of Education Technology at Pace University, a member of the Google Earth Education Experts team, and a frequent keynote speaker and presenter who has recently done educational technology presentations across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia.
- Jeffery Heil (@jheil65) – Jeffery has been an educator for 25 years. He has served as a classroom teacher, an instructional technology coach, an adjunct professor of education, and a Google in Education Trainer and Innovator. In this time he has continued to be an advocate for all students, especially those traditionally underserved by the U.S. educational institution. He sees relationships as the core of education and strives to show all educators meaningful ways to incorporate technology into their curriculum to amplify student learning while not losing sight of the importance of seeing each student as a unique and important member of a classroom or school.
- Donnie Piercy (@mrpiercEy) – The 2021 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Donnie teaches fifth grade Lexington, Kentucky. After graduating from Asbury College and earning his master’s from Auburn, he has been teaching since 2007. Donnie specializes in using technology to promote student inquiry, learning, and engagement. Over the past fourteen years of teaching, these interests have given him the unique chance to represent Kentucky around the world. Donnie was the recipient of a National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship to Antarctica, and he also represents Kentucky on the inaugural National Geographic Education Teacher Advisory Council. He is the North American lead for the Google Earth Education Experts Network. Donnie has been invited to keynote and present at schools in thirty-three states and on four continents. In 2017, he co-authored The Google Cardboard Book: Explore, Engage, and Educate with Virtual Reality based on virtual experiences he created for his students. The Bluegrass always calls him home, however, as he regularly leads professional development at school districts around the state. Donnie lives in Lexington with his wife and three children.
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The EdTech Newlywed Game – Favorite 80s song (playlist at the bottom of the show notes!)
Educational Duct Tape Question: What is the best tool for a teacher to use for exposing students to different geographical areas?
- Google Earth
  - Find your house – shows that it’s real places
  - Book settings
  - Overlay images
  - Connect with experiences that you have or they have
  - Voyages – Premade content built right in
  - Layers – weather, clouds, glaciers, tropical storms, timelapse
  - Carmen Sandiego
  - New Google Earth Projects brings in stuff that used to be in Tour Creator, Tour builder, similar to building custom maps in MyMaps
  - Learn how to create your own Google Earth Projects
  - Collaborative
  - Lit Trips
- Google Maps Street View
  - Pegman – Blue lines and dots. Lines are from Google Map Car. Dots are photospheres that are 360 images uploaded by users.
  - Get the Google Street View App
  - Contribute images to Google Maps
    - Donnie #1, Donnie #2, Donnie #3
  - Create your own 360 images using your smartphone
- Google Earth Engine
  - Change over time
  - Case studies
  - Data sets
- Learn more about Google Geo Tools for Education
- Other Geo Tools Honorable Mentions:
- Arts & Culture – experiments, especially AR on phone, primary sources
  - Google Maps Lists
  - MyMaps – Customizable Google Maps
  - Street view treks
  - Thetruesize.com
Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
- Kyle Niemis’ tweet about bookmarks and tables of contents in Google Docs
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