ICT Support for LearningAnnotating the Earth

Annotating the Earth: Move over, Rand McNally: Google Earth is becoming the standard tool for organizing geographical information. Wade Roush. MIT Technology Review. Online September 2006. … new layers for Google Earth: collections of practical and educational resources related to specific places on the planet. … Icons linking to this mass of information--which is being provided by organizations such as the United Nations, the U.S. National Park Service, National Geographic, and Turn Here, a publisher of city guides--appear atop the Google Earth landscape with the click of a mouse. …geographically indexed world encyclopedia. …