I just read in my e-school news that Google Earth has added a "sky" button which turns your gaze outward to the stars and galaxies above. You have to download a new Google Earth, and then you have to notice the new little button at the top of the Google Earth screen. It looks like this cool little Saturn button; that is, if you're looking at your screen with your telescope. In reality it's so small it looks like you splattered oatmeal on your LCD.
But once you know it's there it's very cool. Here's a movie that shows how it works.
It's these kind of tools that can make all the difference in the use of educational technology in schools. Hopefully science teachers will be inspired to explore this tool and use it to bring dynamic elements and current data into their lessons. The database alone, with information on each object in the sky, is incredible. And if teachers don't get time to to bring it into their classrooms, I imagine the students will probably bring it in for them.
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