{"id":9583,"date":"2019-11-26T23:21:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2019-11-26T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:22:50","slug":"google-earth-adds-new-storytelling-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/google-earth-adds-new-storytelling-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth adds new storytelling tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m delighted to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/earth\/new-google-earth-creation-tools\/\">new ways to pair one\u2019s own images with views of our planet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With creation tools in Google Earth, you can draw your own placemarks, lines and shapes, then attach your own custom text, images, and videos to these locations. You can organize your story into a narrative and collaborate with others. And when you\u2019ve finished your story, you can share it with others. By clicking the new \u201cPresent\u201d button, <strong>your audience will be able to fly from place to place in your custom-made Google Earth narrative<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take a look at how students &amp; others are using it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing creation tools in Google Earth\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e6pcznVAFWw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a 60-second-ish tour of the actual creation process:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New in Earth! Use our just-launched creation tools to share your stories and maps using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoogleEarth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoogleEarth<\/a>. Here&#39;s how it works: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fqVXP8A4Ln\">https:\/\/t.co\/fqVXP8A4Ln<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SQKBjQWuyO\">pic.twitter.com\/SQKBjQWuyO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Google Earth (@googleearth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googleearth\/status\/1197160797560020993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e6pcznVAFWw\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m delighted to see new ways to pair one\u2019s own images with views of our planet: With creation tools in Google Earth, you can draw your own placemarks, lines and shapes, then attach your own custom text, images, and videos to these locations. You can organize your story into a narrative and collaborate with others. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9587,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}