{"id":663,"date":"2008-06-05T22:01:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/06\/05\/3d-disney-on-google-earth\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:57:39","slug":"3d-disney-on-google-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/06\/05\/3d-disney-on-google-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Disney on Google Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3079\/2555306594_8e3a705f05_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2174\/2555306696_9f7a453ea5_o.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SketchUp\u00a0has incredible educational potential.\u00a0 Using free tools available from Google, Disney has added a 3D layer over the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyworld.disney.go.com\/wdw\/special\/flashPages\/index?id=GoogleEarthPage&amp;CMP=OTC-3dparksVanity\" target=\"_blank\">Disney World<\/a> property.\u00a0 Every building, sidewalk and tree has been drawn in detail.\u00a0 Above is a picture of the haunted house.\u00a0 This is a must-see attraction at the Magic Kingdom.\u00a0\u00a0As you enter the building, there are\u00a0tombstones with funny names and one with a picture of a face with eyes that move.\u00a0 Zoom in on Google Earth and you can see it below.\u00a0 Click either picture for higher resolution images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3005\/2555306656_caa6ae8187_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3020\/2554482221_e1bffe2779_o.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think of the geography, mapping, history, architecture, engineering (the list is huge) projects that students could do with these <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\">free tools<\/a>.\u00a0 Students could recreate a 3D version of the local school, post office, court house and other significant government buildings.\u00a0 Historical locations could also be added.<\/p>\n<p>These locations would have to be researched.\u00a0 Community officials would be interviewed.\u00a0 Measurements would be taken.\u00a0 Students would learn to use the construction tools available from Google and collaboratively place objects in correct locations.<\/p>\n<p>Layers representing different time periods could be constructed.\u00a0 Students could see what occupies spaces once used by historical buildings.\u00a0 This could be a lot of fun&#8230; and a learning experience too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SketchUp\u00a0has incredible educational potential.\u00a0 Using free tools available from Google, Disney has added a 3D layer over the entire Disney World property.\u00a0 Every building, sidewalk and tree has been drawn in detail.\u00a0 Above is a picture of the haunted house.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/06\/05\/3d-disney-on-google-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,336,340,45,29,44,2],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-disney","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-google","tag-multimedia","tag-sketchup","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}