Today I enjoyed this article from Stephen Shankland on CNET’s website. The article is about using Google’s Street View feature in the U.K. Google Street View is a feature on Google Maps that allows you to virtually stand on various points along hundreds of thousands of miles of roadway. In fact, I, or anyone else, can virtually stand 50 feet from my house and look at my house from various angles from the road. Kind of creepy.
Even though it seems strange that a car equipped with automatic cameras took pictures of my house that I can now see on the internet, I am still a fan of Google Street View. Before class starts many of my students virtually tour places around Michigan, but also other places around the globe. Google Street View is now even expanding to include historical sites that are not accessible by car using a peddled version of their camera system. I encourage you to take a look.
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I agree it is a little creepy but it is pretty cool as well. I've found it very helpful when going someplace I have not been before. Rather than just knowing it is on the right side of the road, I can see that it is a yellow two story building with a red awning on the right side of the road. Pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteAWESOME opportunities in K-12 education here! This would be so easy to use in history to view places they otherwise only read about, in math to better visualize the 'if Timmy leaves Mason at 11:54 am when will he...' questions and much much more! I think the more we can offer our students the better. And like it or not, some of our visual learners really need this extra aid to make them 'get' what we're doing!
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