Links to Google Earth Resources:

• Google Earth version 4.0 | KML Tutorial
• Google Earth Outreach
  • Placemark HTML templates (baloons)
• Creating KML from a spreadsheet | Cleveland Memory Example
• Pro Version Educational License Application (1 year - difference between versions)
• Picasa GeoTag Video photo example
• Google Earth Community | Videos | Sightseer Newsletter
• Google Earth Library (Matt Fox - Historic Maps)
• GPS Visualizer | KML Overlay Creator | Network Link Example: Adena
• Classroom20 ning.com
• Google Earth Blog.com Science
• Ogle Earth Blog
• Google Earth Lessons
• Google Earth Projects
  • Recent Volcanic Activity
• NASA Google Earth Datasets (Blue Marble - Seasons | Downloadable version )
• Coral Reef Watch
• Virtual Tour of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
• World Wind - Google Earth Comparison
• Using Google Earth for Earth Science and Remote Sensing Blog
• CEOS European Data Server (some data is world wide - KML link at bottom left of main page)
• Global Land Cover Facility
• Our Earth as Art (NASA)
• Night Lights of the World
• Animated Timeline showing progress of Airplane Flights (Timeline Instructions)
• Measurement - Smoots

Google Maps can display a subset of the KML used by Google Earth

• Google Maps Create Personalized Maps
• add image overlays using Google Earth kml
  Example: Adena (copy link location and paste into search maps box)
• Google Moon | Google Mars
• Acme mapper combines Google Maps and Terraserver topos/aerial photos.

Links to Microsoft Virtual Earth Resources (no installation required - use Firefox browser on Mac)

• Windows Live Local - Microsoft Virtual Earth
• Overlays: Mapcruncher - Example: Navarre/Dover Ohio example

Links to Yahoo Maps (no installation required)

• Yahoo Maps
• Map Overlays: MapMixer - 1892 Cleveland Heights Example
  (easiest to use but most limiting in terms of map size - keep well under 4000 pixels width and height)

Geography Resources

• National Geographic Society MapMachine Xpeditions
• National Council for Geography Education
• USGS (US Geological Survey) Education
  • Geographic Names Information System (download official names and locations - propose new/updated names)