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Fantasy London Google Earth – Court Fields Community School

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Noel Jenkins a teacher from Court Fields Community School has sent in some wonderful building designs for our Fantasy London project. His class of 11 year olds have been learning about Urban Land Use and Digital Geography, a subject which is perfect for Google Earth. Noel runs the excellent website ‘Digital Geography’ which includes a number of resources aimed at exploring the teaching of Geography using digital techniques.

The buildings, designed by the pupils, have all been sent in with locations marked in Google Earth – we now intend to select three winners and model their drawings in 3D ready to put into Google Earth.

You can view the drawings in more detail by clicking on the images below:


The buildings and the winners will go online, fingers crossed, later this week and a prize for the best building will be sent in the post..

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As an update in case you came here via a direct link – the first runner up has now been modelled and rendered.

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Fantasy London Google Earth – Court Fields Community School

By Fantasy Architecture

Noel Jenkins a teacher from Court Fields Community School has sent in some wonderful building designs for our Fantasy London project. His class of 11 year olds have been learning about Urban Land Use and Digital Geography, a subject which is perfect for Google Earth. Noel runs the excellent website ‘Digital Geography’ which includes a number of resources aimed at exploring the teaching of Geography using digital techniques.

The buildings, designed by the pupils, have all been sent in with locations marked in Google Earth – we now intend to select three winners and model their drawings in 3D ready to put into Google Earth.

You can view the drawings in more detail by clicking on the images below:


The buildings and the winners will go online, fingers crossed, later this week and a prize for the best building will be sent in the post..

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As an update in case you came here via a direct link – the first runner up has now been modelled and rendered.

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Slow Week?

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Not many updates this week as I have been called away from work to look after my Dad who fell off the roof while chasing squirrels.

Next weeks got some interesting posts coming up though – we have a series of posts on Fantasy Architecture with drawings for a Geography Class to be made into 3D Models and put into Google Earth. The drawings arrived in A3 format and we have a A3 Scanner arriving Monday.

We are also thinking of a ‘How To’ series to put together a series of tutorials on how to do the things we put on the blog. If there are any tutorials you would like see then please post a comment and we will start writing….

SketchUp Acquired by Google

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SketchUp is without doubt one of our favorite pieces of software, software which now displays a ‘from Google’ logo on their homepage.

Google has acquired SketchUp after they worked together on the plugin for Google Earth. With the aim of making the easy to use 3D modelling software available to a wider group of users it seems to link in well with the expansion of Google Earth.

There are some nagging doubts in the back of my mind but personally I’m all for the wider intergration of easy to use software. Googles Picasa is a prime example of this – software which gets the job done in a way so simple you wonder why it hasn’t been down before.

So how long before we see a SketchUp Lite version aimed at Google Earth users? – We bet within the next few months.

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