3D weather globe is a tool to help students engage with geography, science, and other content areas
Now available for both Windows and Macintosh!!!
http://www.mackiev.com/3d_globe.html
Received MacWorld 2005 award for best software design
All maps you build you can save and reload
– very popular with teachers, this software is replacing the globe in
Use the zoom
Uses high res maps from NASA, for security purposes they only go in so far
Can bring in current weather.com cloud coverage
Add cities that you want to track, like cities you are visting
can turn on weather grid
Use the grab hand to show
40,000 cities in the database
– choose highlight cities
– with grab hand you can see time zone
– transparency of globe can be changed in settings
– can tilt the world on its axis
– can view geographic coordinates
– can control spinning speed
– cloud animation speed
– time of day can be altered
– have all the Apple stores in the whole world!
This software is only available through Apple and MacKiev
– have a very small sales end
– will be glad to send review copies of software
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