Telling a story with Google Earth: Student work in my online mapping course

A participant in my online course Google Mapping for Communicators created a virtual tour using Google Earth, and it provides for a good example of how Google Earth can be used as a storytelling tool.

About the course: Google Mapping for Communicators is a free online course offered by this blog. This course trains participants on the use of Google Fusion Tables map, Google Maps Engine and Google Earth.

About the assignments: Course participants are asked to produce an interactive heat map using Fusion Tables, a rich-media map with photos and videos using Maps Engine, and a virtual tour using Google Earth.

About this virtual tour: Caddie Brain, an online reporter with Australian Broadcast Corporation, created a tour of the 223-kilometre-long Larapinta Trail along the West MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia. Caddie edited the tour video with captions, selected photos and a music track.

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• Google Maps tutorial: How to create a Fusion Tables intensity map
• Location- and time-based storytelling: Interactive maps with embedded photo, video and texts
• How to embed video and photo in a Google interactive map
• Fusion Tables map tutorial: How to find and use public KML geographic data