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Repasamos algunas de las principales páginas webs y recursos en Internet que nos permiten realizar visitas virtuales en entornos naturales, monumentos, museos y edificios emblemáticos de todo el mundo. Desde recursos disponibles en plataformas como Google Maps Treks o Google Art & Culture, hasta páginas particulares de museos e instituciones.
Your favorite Marks Mirchandani and Mandel are back hosting this week to touch base with Angela Yu about recent updates in Google Maps. As Angela describes Google Maps at a high level, it is your window into the real world, with coverage of Earth’s land and oceans. Google works hard to keep that information updated with satellite pictures, street view Google vehicles, and even backpacks for hikers to record hard to reach areas. The Google Maps API makes it easy for developers to use Maps data in their own projects. It can be used for something as simple as showing location to something more complicated, for example showing the user specific things around them to help them make decisions. Game developers can create rich experiences by building real-world gaming situations with Maps and augmented reality. Using the Places API can display parks, government buildings, and other interesting places beyond streets. And the Routes API can expand the user experience by providing directions, tracking drivers in real time, etc. Maps and Google Cloud together work well with BigQuery to search huge amounts of data and visualize them on a map. In the future, Angela is particularly excited about how ridesharing apps will continue to use Maps and Routes to optimize their businesses. She also looks forward to more augmented reality projects beyond gaming, where data, directions, and more are overlaid on the physical world. Angela Yu Angela Yu is a developer advocate for Google Maps Platform. Throughout her career, she has geeked out on voice recognition, mobile app development, and IoT. You can find her trapped in escape rooms or on Twitter. Cool things of the week Google to acquire Looker blog New Translate API capabilities can help localization experts and global enterprises blog Google Cloud networking in depth: Cloud CDN blog Save money by stopping and starting Compute Engine instances on schedule blog An update on Sunday’s service disruption blog Interview Google Maps Platform site blog docs Google Maps Places site Google Maps Routes site Google Maps Treks site Visualizing data from Firebase on a Google Map site Google Maps Platform Codelabs site BigQuery site BigQuery Public Datasets docs Deck.GL site Google Maps SDK for Android Beta site Popular Antipodes on Google Maps site The True Size of countries site Google Maps on Github site Google Maps Client Libraries site StreetView Gallery site Earth Engine site xkcd: Map Projections site Beautiful data visualizations using deck.gl on Google Maps demo and docs Question of the week What is helm, and how do I use it? GCP Podcast Episode 50: Helm with Michelle Noorali and Matthew Butcher podcast Kubernetes Podcast podcast and twitter Kuberenetes twitter Where can you find us next? Angela will be at the Chrome Dev Summit. Mark Man will be at Tokyo Next. Mark Mirch will be customer filming for Stack Chat in NYC. Sound Effect Attribution “Striking a Match” by Nebulousflynn of Freesound.org “Bad Beep” by RICHERIandTV of Freesound.org “Correct” by Tristan_Lohengrin of Freesound.org “Spaceship Atmosphere 02” by RICHERIandTV of Freesound.org “At the jazz concert Crowd laugh.wav” by Ftom_woysky of Freesound.org
Google News and Updates It’s now easier to insert images in cells in Google Sheets Work smarter with the new Priority page in Drive Driving change with Rolling Study Halls Your mission, gumshoe: Catch Carmen Sandiego in Google Earth Featured Content Spring has finally sprung! Matt and Kasey share some great Google related things you can do on Spring Break or related to Spring Break! Courses to Try Over Spring Break: FREE Course: How to Create Magnetic Poetry with Google Slides and Drawings The Google Classroom Master Class The Google Slides Master Class HyperDocs on Air: 12 free videos Master the Screencast: FREE online course by Screencastify Books to Read Over Spring Break Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches by Gerry Brooks You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education by Sir Ken Robinson The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Shawn Achor Shake Up Learning Book Study (starts March 28th) Resources How I started traveling the world on my own, thanks to Google Local Guides Connect A safer way to share your ETA, now on iOS Virtual spring break trip with Google Maps Treks (staycation!) 20 sites for students with free time on their hands Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag Craig Klement (Garland, TX) -- Choice board on Google MyMaps: pins on different locations, students choose their own adventure, detail the activities in the pin, layers to highlight the route that they took on their adventure. Mark (Wisconsin) -- I have an assignment in Literature that requires the students to proofread a poorly written letter (roughly 50 mistakes) and make corrections. Is there a way to turn off Spell Check in the shared document? I have it turned off on the master copy, but when I send it out through Classroom, each of their Chromebooks turns Spell Check back on. Thanks On The Blogs Matt - The Hyperdocs Toolbox: 14 engaging example activities Kasey - 60+ Apps That Integrate with Google Classroom The Shake Up Learning Show starts March 26th with a 5-episode series!
Welcome to episode 68 of the EdTech Situation Room from October 4, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wes Fryer (@wfryer) discussed today's exciting Google event and product announcements, with (as always) an eye toward the educational implications of the news. Discussed Google product announcements included the new Pixel2 smartphone, Pixelbuds supporting real-time translation in 40 languages, the updated Pixelbook, the Google Clip Camera, and new Google Home products including the Home Max and Home Mini. Geeks of the week included the Chromebook Comparison Chart from Zipso (from Jason), an update on the cross-platform video projection option Via Connect Pro, and Google Maps Treks (from Wes). Please follow us on Twitter @edtechSR for updates, and reach out to us if you listen to the show! If a particular article or topic is especially thought provoking or interesting to you, please let us know. The EdTech Situation Room is produced live each week (almost) on Wednesday nights at 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain time. Thanks for tuning in. Stay safe and stay savvy!