Google Tools Training

Hosted by Jeremy Caplan & Mike Reilley

Zoom

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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

Presenter: Mike Reilley

Mike is a former reporter at the LA Times and web editor at the Chicago Tribune. He's also an SPJ digital trainer who has taught Google News Initiative tools to more than 6,500 journalists and educators. 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.

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. Mike founded and updates the research site The Journalist’s Toolbox for SPJ and runs the Chicago data site, The Red Line Project.

Approximate Schedule

10-11am 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 11-11:10

11:10-12 Building interactive graphics and maps with Google Flourish. Data scraping with Google Sheets, plus some bonus apps

Sponsored by SPJ, The Society of Professional Journalists