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GoogleEarth instructions for creating a tour: 1.

Open GoogleEarth Click on Macintosh HD in the upper right corner of the Desktop click on Applications click on GoogleEarth 2. Click through the series of screens following instructions 3. Click on the 'Temporary Places' folder under Places (on the left side of the screen). 4. From the top menu, choose 'Add' 5. Select Folder (this will place a new folder under Temporary Places) 6. Give your folder a name (eg. National Parks tour) 7. Add a description, if desired, and click OK 8. Navigate to the first location in your tour. 9. Create a placemark Click on the push pin icon on the top of the main screen Move the new pin to the desired location Give the pushpin a name in the screen that pops up Click Done 10. Highlight the new Placemark in Places folder 11. From the Edit menu at the top of the screen, choose Get Info 12. Type your educational paragraph into the Description box. This will appear in the balloon the comes up over the push pin when you click on the push pin. 13. Add an image to the balloon. Find an image in Flickr Open the image so you are looking at the full image rather than a thumbnail Control-click on the image and select Copy Image Location In your GoogleEarth Placemark Description, insert your image using the following code: <img src="URL of image "> You will paste the copied Image Location URL between the quotation marks. Example: <img src=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/3705378011_a24a62abb3.jpg> NOTE: a correct URL will have an extension of .jpg, .gif or .png. NOTE2: You can return to your Placemark description to add new information or make changes any time by selecting it in your left sidebar and choosing Get Info from the Edit menu. 14. To add spaces between your text and your picture, or anywhere else in your description, type the code: <br> Each time you type this code, you will create one extra line

15. Add a link to a webpage Find the webpage you want on the Internet and copy the URL address. Back in GoogleEarth, highlight Placemark in Places folder and choose Get Info from the Edit menu. Type the following code: <a href="URL of website"> Words to link </a> You will paste the URL of the website that you copied between the quotation marks. Type a word or phrase which will serve as the link in the balloon after the full URL> and before </a> Example: <a href=http://www.nps.gov/yell>Yellowstone Website</a> 16. Click OK 17. Click on the push-pin to open the balloon. Here is the balloon created using the exact instructions listed above:

18. To change the appearance of your push pin, click on Edit>Get Info, and click on the small pushpin icon to the right of the title. 19. Repeat steps 8-18 above to create more Placemarks and educational balloons.

To turn your places into a tour that automatically runs: 20. Check that the Placemarks are in your new tour folder If you click the minus in a square to the left of your folder they should shrink up into the folder. If they are not in the folder, simply drag and drop them into the folder. 21. Set the Preferences for your tour From the GoogleEarth menu, choose Preferences Click on the Touring tab Set Time between Features. This is the total time between each stop on your tour. Set Wait at Features. This is the time your information balloon will show Check the box next to Show balloon when waiting at features Click Apply and OK 22. Try playing your tour Click on your Tour folder in the left sidebar At the bottom of the Places window, click the Play icon Your tour should play, starting from the first location and working through the last. 23. Make any changes necessary to fine-tune your tour, following the appropriate instructions above. 24. When you are happy with your tour, make a recording.

Click your folder so it has a blue background Move to the position where you would like your tour to startpossibly zoomed out to see an entire state, country, or continent. Click the 'Record a tour' button in the main button bar above the main screen. It's a video cam icon.

Click the red Record button in the box that appears bottom left

Click the Play icon in your Places window Your tour will play and record at the same time. When done, click the red Record button again to stop the recording. Your recorded tour should replay for you. If you're happy with it, save it by clicking the Disk icon in the tour control box bottom left. If you are not happy, close the tour control box and return to step 23.

25. The saved tour should appear in your Tour folder (If it is not in your Tour folder, drag it there. It MUST be in the folder). Turn off (i.e. untick) all the elements in your folder except the newly recorded tour. 26. Right click your Tour folder > choose Save Place As, then save the folder as a file to somewhere sensible. 27. The file is now saved as a .kmz document

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