Workshop Goals

You Should Already Have...

• A Google account
• A Flickr account or a Picasa account
   

Workshop Agenda

Introductions & Ice Breaker

 

Overview of Workshop and Preparing for Our Walk

• Logistics of the day
• Why create a marine science map?
• Themes for today's map
• On the walk: taking pictures, notes, and thinking about correlations to your work

 

Tour of Dunes at Asilomar State Beach with Park Ranger Andrea Mapes

 

 

Reflections about Our Walk

• Themes and topics
• Making connections
• Questions
   

Introduction to Google Maps

• Go to Google Maps and try out the tools:
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Play with the 5 options on the top right of the map: Traffic, More, Map, Satellite, and Terrain
• What happens when you click Send and/or Link (also on the top right)?
• Review the QUEST Explorations Template map

• Create a practice map and placemark (together)
• Create placemarks, lines, and shapes

LUNCH  (12:00pm-12:45pm)

Planning Our Map

• Choosing points and themes
• Considerations when working on a group map

Let's Make a GROUP Map!

• Go to Google Maps, click on “My Maps” and sign into your Google account. You should see a new map called "Asilomar Dunes" in the "Created By Others" section of My Maps.

• Upload media

• Create placemarks, lines, and shapes
• Add content
• Insert your media

Wrapping it Up

Discussion About Using Google Maps in Your Educational Work

• Look over "Map Making Tips" sheet

• Are there particular areas of your work that you can see incorporating this into immediately?

• Questions for the group