Get your hands on it: Download (and get the Pro version! It's now free!): earth.google.com
A little background on it:
Getting to know the software as an end-user:
Ready to start marking it up?
- List of bookmarks related to Google Earth: https://delicious.com/tchammond/tlt394,GE
- A one-page handout I created to help middle school students (and you!) with Google Earth: Google_Earth_howTo.pdf
An exercise: Make a Google Earth overlay of your "Happy Place". Include a point, a polygon, and a path, plus whatever else you like. Save it into a folder, then send the final .kmz or .kml to Dr. Hammond.