Google Maps and Google Earth BYOL Workshop

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use Google Maps and Google Earth Specifically, participants will learn how to:

1. Navigate and search in Google Maps and Google Earth
2. Create a Custom Google Map
3. Customize Google Map Placemarks with text, links, images, and embedded videos
4. Share Custom Google Maps with links and as embedded maps on webpages
5. Use Google Earth's layers, measurement tools, and places
6. Use Google Earth custom KML/KMZ files created by others
7. Create custom Google Earth custom KML/KMZ web tours and share them

This workshop is designed for beginner through intermediate computer users, and will include discussion as well as examples of how these tools can be effectively used in K-12 as well as university classroom settings. Although this workshop is designed primarily with educators in mind, progressively-minded business leaders and employees are invited to attend as well and learn how to leverage Google's geo-applications within their industry sector. This workshop is BYOL: Bring your own laptop. AC power and wifi connectivity is provided. Participants will work independently and in collaborative teams during the workshop to create and share digital products.

This hands-on workshop meets the definition of high quality professional development as required by the No Child Left Behind Act [Title IX, Part A, Section 9101 (34)]. The activities in this workshop are directly aligned to the Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS), student academic achievement standards and assessments. The primary goal of the workshop is to improve and increase teachers’ knowledge of digital literacy and the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for teachers / administrators / students, and help enable teachers to become highly qualified. Attendance certificates for professional development will be available.