Através do GeoGreeting, um serviço online que usa imagens do Google Earth, podemos fazer palavras através de edifícios que representam as letras do alfabeto.

Ao entramos no sítio do GeoGreeting, deparamos com um campo ( TYPE YOUR MESSAGE HERE ) onde vamos escrever a palavra que queremos e ainda podemos ver que cada letra/imagem tem um significado.

Awesome! Here’s another ingenious way people are using Google Earth, it’s called geoGreeting and it lets you create messages and e-cards using incidental Google Maps lettering:

Write to Someone with: geoGreeting

Click HERE to view the message, or HERE to create your own geoGreeting (thanks MAY).

And for more fun with Google Lat video messages, click HERE (thanks JOSH).

Eine Verschnaupause                                      

ist eine gute Idee! Obwohl ich sehr gespannt auf die nächste Lektion bin. Der eingefügten Link “Pause”  ist eine lustige Erfindung. Die ich hoffentlich oft anwenden kann, denn ich find geoGreeting KLASSE !Und es ist super   schnell. Zum Ausprobieren hier.

Tom Barrett, a favourite of mine, has written yet another informative and highly useful post, this time about resources he uses to support the teaching of spelling. This is just what I need as I head into last term. I really hate the use of spelling lists and spelling tests. To me it just represents a waste of class time. I seem to struggle meeting the demands of curriculum and  I would much prefer my students engage with some interactive online resources that will help them to remember the correct spelling of words they use, or new words they have been introduced to.  Tom has listed five he uses regularly and I encourage you to visit his blog to gain insight. 

One of the resources he mentions is geoGreeting.

   I’ve been having a bit of a play with this and have been having quite a bit of fun. GeoGreeting was created by Jesse Vig.  He’s a software engineer and graduate student from the University of Minnesota studying computer science, who discovered over the Northern summer that he liked playing with Google Maps. Here’s what he says on the FAQ page about how the website came about;

While working on a different Google Maps project, I noticed that a number of buildings looked like letters of the alphabet when viewed from above. This is the point where I should have just said ‘hmmm, good observation’ and gone on with my life. But I didn’t and that’s why this website is here.

Don’t you just love that!

What you do is type a greeting or word into the ‘type your message here’ box and the word(s) will be represented with the pictures of buildings that look like letters of the alphabet. You can see this in the screenshot above. Tom has had his students using the site to write out their spelling words so that they can see the words in an alternative visual way. After reading parts of John Medina’s ‘Brain Rules’, that suggests our brain retains information more readily via the visual medium, then I think there could be educational application for our use of a site like this. I’m sure my kids will enjoy it anyway. It’s also a means of gaining some insight about the geographical location of the buildings that look like letters of the alphabet. Another opportunity to engage our students in discussion that can extend their knowledge base.  

Thanks Tom for the heads up to some great resources.

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Esta é mais uma aplicação um tanto inútil, mas que vale a pena brincar um pouquinho. Trata-se do geoGreeting que cria cartões de cumprimentos (e-Card) onde cada letra da sua mensagem será representada por uma edificação do mundo, e apresentada no Google Maps.

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A sua interface é bem simples e você basicamente executa 3 passos: entrar com a mensagem, copiar o link para enviar um email aos amigos e, por último, ver um preview de como a mensagem aparecerá para as pessoas que receberem o seu link. Além dos caracteres do alfabeto, sem acentuação, você ainda pode incluir em sua mensagem um dos dois emoticons disponíveis:

coração ou

smile

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Quem receber o seu link irá poder ver o geoGreeting com a animação durante a carga das letras e a localização de cada edificação no mapa. Para ver detalhes, basta passar o mouse sobre as letras e clicar, quando então veremos no Google Maps a edificação que representa aquela letra.

O site já recebeu mais de 1.250.000 visitas e venhamos e convenhamos, foi uma idéia muito legal, criativa e original.

Fonte: Brogui.com

Vi no Brogui e não resisti:

O Geo Greeting usa imagens do Google pra localizar prédios que se parecem com letras (propositalmente ou não) e os utiliza para formar as palavras que você quiser (obviamente sem acentos ).

Veja a animaçãozinha da imagem acima aqui.

E faça o seu no site original!

The creator of geoGreeting was working on a Google Maps project, when he noticed that a number of buildings looked like letters of the alphabet when viewed from above. As he explains, “this is the point where I should have just said ‘hmmm, good observation’ and gone on with my life. But I didn’t and that’s why this website is here.”

Release your inner nerd – send a geoGreeting.

Uma nova maneira de mandar um recado pra alguém…
A superfície da Terra tem algumas mensagens… você só precisa olhar mais de perto.

Dá uma olhada nessa que eu fiz…
http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?yzkEvywyBovvs3UGyBnzBoCC3myw

Para ver o site e mandar suas próprias mensagens, acesse aqui.

Muito útil mesmo ahahah

http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zfNZMZj7+dLbu7MS+rs