Google Earth Adds 3-D Tour of Ancient Rome

by Clay Burell · 2009-04-08 16:00:00 UTC
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A 21st Century tool to increase core knowledge of the Roman Empire, brought to you by Google Earth and the University of Virginia. What I wouldn't give to have audio-visual "texts" like this to "read" when I was a kid.
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In my Shanghai days heading the ESL department of a two-campus international school with over one in four students of limited English proficiency, rich multi-modal material like this was precisely what we wanted to make the reading input more comprehensible. (What are your thoughts on this as a supplement to reading, Robert? And did Prof. Hirsch have a hand in the Google Earth project?)

National Council for the Social Studies

(h/t to Tom Daccord at the National Council for the Social Studies Community Network Ning. He found me on Twitter, I followed him to that Ning and joined it straightaway, and urge any history and social studies types to do the same. Many more great resources and conversations in that young community already.)

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