I was inspired by Dean Shareski's blog post (see post for his inspirations) to use Google's Street View to give a short overview of where I grew up (none of my family still lives in the houses I showed). I think this could be a great way for students to tell their story, or narrate a fictional one with a setting of their choosing. If students didn't want to hear themselves speak, or you didn't want to mess with screen recording, a text version of this could be done using kmz files in Google Earth to tour the world. Shareski used Jing and pieced together less than 5 minute clips to make his video (free Jing maxes at 5 minutes). I used iShowU HD because I already had it on my computer. I did have to do some editing in iMovie to get it under 10 minutes (max allowed by YouTube). I'm not a huge fan of iShowU (see: audio quirk towards the beginning...happens more often than I like to admit), but it gets the job done. Enjoy!
