Google Earth and GPS
Our grade seven students spent three days in Chengde last week. I went along and took along my hand held GPS. I used it to mark the places we went and now they can be loaded into Google Earth. Here are the technical details of how I did it.
As I said above I used my GPS to mark some of the places we went. Next I used GPS Babel to download the waypoints to my computer and convert the file to .gpx format which can be read by Google Earth. Next I dragged and dropped the .gpx file onto an open Google Earth window and voila. I could see everything marked on the map. Finally, I uploaded the file to my class wiki so the kids can access it from home.
