Google's Liquid Galaxy

Name: Dave Maas
Name of Video Article: Immersed in Google Earth
Source:CNN.com
Date Published: March 12th 2010
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Description: Google has a new shoot off of their already popular Google Earth called Liquid Galaxy. This video shows a demonstration at the Google Headquarters in December of 2009. This is a 3D immersible experience that lets you fly across the world and travel anywhere your heart desires and feel like your actually there.

Comment: I think this would be a great resource to use with any geography content. It is hard for students to comprehend oceans or mountains if they have never seen one before. I think this could be a fun way for foreign language classes to take a virtual field trip to different countries that speak the language they are learning. I think that students who study the 50 states could have an amazing experience traveling to those places. Many student struggle with learning the differences between a city, county, state, country, continent. I think this could be a great tool to teach that content in a way that the students would feel like they are there instead of just the view on their laptop screen that Google Earth gives us right now.