If that isn't cool enough, the project allows you to stick little pins into your globe. These pins are identifed by their latitude and longitude. In its simplicity, we just identify places.
But...
Each of the little pins could also be tied to a URL. In the case below, I've painstakingly visited each of the Canadian Capital cities with a GPS unit to find its location and tied it to the city's main webpage. (Or used Google Earth to come to a close value) Choose your version of my story!
Double click on the base of each pin to visit the capital cities of the provinces and territories.
What a way to make Geography or History come alive. Use research to identify student origins or explorer's travels or current events or...
Or, you could just zoom in on Antarctica and see it in whatever context you wish for the first time.
Geosphere is downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/hm-geosphere and instructions for installation and creation of the file for your stick pins are included in the documentation.
Download it and give it a shot. If you're interested in the file with the latitude and longitude for the Canadian Capital cities, you can download it from here.
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