Maps and Google Tour Builder

After DFI Day 7 and working with Maps, a teacher asked me this week about how to make a map and fly into a place. he had seen it somewhere and wanted to be able to do it for their up-coming trip to Mt Hikurangi. Great timing!

So we looked at pinning Mt Hikurangi on a Google map and adding photos but that wasn't the whole deal of flying into the pin.

Serendipitously (is that a word?) I came across Google Tour Builder. Please don't ask me how or where I found it because I think I was down a rabbit hole.

Anyway - here is my attempt at using Google Tour Builder with the aim of "flying" to Mt Hikurangi. It was fun doing this and getting some nostalgic photos on here especially of Ūawa and the place I grew up. Looking at the terrain I'm not sure I will ever get to the top of Mt Hikurangi so it was cool being able to zoom in and see the maunga in detail.

This tool is workable for learners to use so I will update in term 4 and show the work the learners do after their trip.

Mt Hikurangi topped with snow 12 September 2019