Google Tools Training

​Google Tools and More for Your Classrooms and Newsrooms

​Learn about all of the free Google tools that can help you build interactive charts, maps, visualizations and more. This is a hands-on workshop, so be sure to bring your laptop and smartphone. Mike gets high feedback marks for these live workshops.

​Tools we’ll cover: Google Flourish, Google Dataset Search, Google Fact Check Explorer, Google Earth, MapChecking.com, Google Trends, MyMaps, Earth Engine Timelapse, data scraping with Google Sheets and more.

​Presenter: Mike Reilley

​Mike is an SPJ digital trainer who has taught Google News Initiative tools to more than 6,500 journalists and educators in the past four years. He also is founder of and trainer in the Penny Press Digital LLC, a consulting and training company. When he’s not doing trainings, he teaches data and multimedia journalism at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he has been a full-time faculty member for five years.

​A former reporter at the LA Times and web editor at the Chicago Tribune, Mike served for 13 years as a faculty member at Northwestern, Arizona State University and DePaul University, teaching digital journalism to hundreds of students and professional journalists. He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (undergrad) and Northwestern University (masters). Mike founded and updates the research site The Journalist’s Toolbox (journaliststoolbox.org) for SPJ and runs the Chicago data site, The Red Line Project (redlineproject.org). Twitter: @journtoolbox | Email: mikereilley1@gmail.com

​Approximate Schedule

​1:30-2:30pm ET: Google Dataset Search, Google Earth Measure tool, Google Earth Timelapse (updated!), Google Public Data Explorer (great for Census), MapChecking.com (crowd estimates), Fact-Check Explorer.

​Break 2:30-2:45

​2:45-3:45: Building interactive graphics and maps with Google Flourish. Data scraping with Google Sheets

​Break 3:45-4pm

​4-4:30: Bonus tools, mobile apps and Q&A