Placemarks+&+Tours

Google Earth Tours can be created for a variety of purposes:

 * ====Teachers sharing locations that have to do with a new unit ====
 * ====Teachers sharing tours of continents, ocean, landforms, etc. that will be studied in class ====
 * ====Scavenger hunts to explore different places ====
 * ====Visit a location for a virtual field trip ====
 * ====Student created tours of landforms, cities, countries, time zones and just about any other map related concept ====
 * ====Student created tours to tell about their community, town or city. ====

Q: What is a "Tour"?
==A: A tour is simply a folder that contains placemarks. Once placemarks have been created and sequenced in the order you want, you can take a 'tour' of all the placemarks. Tours can be saved and exported as a file (.kmz) as well. ==

Tours can include:

 * ==== Placemarks ====
 * ==== Descriptions of places ====
 * ==== Pictures of places* ====
 * ==== Audio telling about places ====
 * ==== Music ====
 * ==== Layers, 3-D Buildings, and many other special features ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Embedded HTML code such as VoiceThreads in placemarks ====

====<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">1. On Toolbar click on Add -> Folder :: Give it a name and description ====

8. To play a tour, click on the folder icon w/ the play button.

 * to add a picture to a placemark, locate the copyright friendly image, use Google advanced image search and choose 'labeled for reuse'. Find an appropriate image and click on 'full-size image'. Copy the url and paste into the Placemark description using the following html code: <img src="paste url here"> Be sure to include attribution to the image.