Learn Marble

Introduction

ICT Competency

Subject (Geography) resource creation.

Educational application and relevance

Atlas is an essential resource for a Geography teacher. An atlas is required to learn political geography as well as physical geography. Marble is a digital atlas. It can be used to understand and analyse map information of the Earth. Lessons can be created using different maps from Marble to understand certain concepts in geography.

Version

Marble Virtual Globe Version 1.8.3 (stable release) (Marble is also available on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems)

Configuration

This tool has no specific configuration requirements

Overview of Features

Marble is an virtual atlas, it has many digital maps of the Earth. These maps provide information about physical geography of the Earth, including topography, rainfall, climate etc. It also has ‘historical’ maps which give the information about the Earth at various points in time in the past, relating to political regimes at that time

Other similar applications

Other free digital atlas applications include K Geography Non free digital atlas includes https://www.google.com/earth (Google), Bhuvan http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/bhuvan_links.php (ISRO).

Working with the application

Functionalities

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2. Please add 500px

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Installation

Method of installation	Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre	Steps
From Terminal	Steps
From the web	Steps
Web based registration	Steps

How to use template

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