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Google Earth KMZ Instructions
For
Trips in Time with Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
Tour 4: Traders in Time
A Faraway Home View A Faraway Home in a larger map
As a historian and historical fiction author that focuses on exploration,
settlement, and new territories, the slant of Geography is always a constant in
my research and work. Before I ever
write about the locations of history, I always visit them, to get the “feel” for
the location, environment, and culture.
In the classroom, of course, it is impossible to take field trips to all my
research sites and the sites in my novels but with Google Earth.com and a
projector you can bring the locations to you.
1. First install Google Earth, at home, on your own personal computer to get the
feel of the software.
(It is a free download and is worth the time to
get to know.)
2. Check with your schools
technology department and see if Google Earth can be downloaded at school. Most have it available, but filters and firewalls have to be given the proper code/port or lower filters to allow access at school. This is not hard and something most tech. people can easily accomplish.
Once installed, the software will display the earth, and side "frames" titled
Search, Places,
and Layers. If not visible, click “View” on task
bar, click
“Sidebar”. At this point, you
can do “Fly To” searches,
just put in your
address or the address of the school and let the
software take you
there. Play around with the program
and if
having trouble,
just click “Help” and take a couple tutorials.
3. For my KMZ files, you don’t
really have to worry about any of
this, just
install Google Earth and email me at Pandex@prodigy.net, and I will send you the file(s) by email.
4. Once you receive your file(s), just click on it and it will automatically
open your Google Earth
install, and you will see, on the “Sidebar” under “My Places” the information. Just go to the folder in "My Places" Click on the box and the folders will open and placemarks will show up on the globe.
5. Click on Tour One, make sure Tour
One is the only program with
Green marked
boxes that are open, if not, you will have all four
tours open and
running, and it can be very confusing.
With only
Tour One marked
to open, ZOOM IN, using the Compass slide
bar, with the
plus and negative signs, to the far right of the map
screen. Zoom in
until you see the small red ships and titles above
and below.
Now you are ready to start.
6. On the right in the Side Bar, just follow the locations, from the
beginning where you
read Tour One: Trips in Time – From France
to New France.
Tap twice on each side bar title and you will zoom
to the location on the
map and an information bubble should pop
up.
If it doesn’t, tap the little red ship location, again.
7. Follow the tour, using the side bar connect, or follow the tour by
following the
progressions of the ships across the ocean, all the
way to Montreal.
Don’t forget to “tap” on the pieces of art to get a
“feel” for historically
what the area you are looking at looked like
in the 1600s.
8. If you want a closer look at each location, go to the positive and
negative, compass
slide and zoom in and out at your pleasure.
9. Don’t miss the close-ups of the
Port of Honfleur the Rapids at
Lachine or the
Falls of Chaudière, amazing locations of history
and still,
mostly, there to view today.
10. Enjoy your Trips in Time Tour, and stay tuned as I am planning
on doing
similar tours for each one of my books.
11. Contact me if you have any trouble at Pandex@prodigy.net; this
is
something new for me too, and I am working hard to get all the
bugs out
and with your help, suggestions or compliments, we can
make this a
fun, easy and useful project.
Readers make leaders! – Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
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Google Earth a Wonderful Tool
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