Thing 18 - Education

I have downloaded three education apps.  The first is a dictionary, which I can see can come in handy--nice to be able to check a word meaning or spelling.  The Thesaurus will be useful when I'm writing--like now and trying to avoid redundancy.   I tried to download NOAH which is a program for identifying plants and animals.  That didn't seem to open.  The final app that I downloaded was Google Earth.  I've used this on the computer, but enjoyed using it as an app.  You just type in a place or address and then it shows an aerial picture.  I was able to look at my husband's trailer court in Arizona, my brother's house in southern Minnesota and some sights in San Diego that we may see on a trip there next month.  I like that you can use your fingers to get in closer.  The feature of the walking man is nice if you want to look at the front of a house or building.  I was able to look up my daughter's house in LaCrosse.  My friend Joan was over for dinner last night and she showed me her childhood home and her boyfriend's cabin.  It is interesting to see the type of landscape each area has--urban and rural are very different, but dessert is much different from the swamps around Onamia.  My brother lives in southern Minnesota which has rolling hills with many cultivated fields.  This would be a great tool for teaching children different types of environments.