2018 IMW

Below is a list of each hands-on training session offered at IMW 2018 and a link to the training materials for the session.

Indigenous Mapping Overview: This session demonstrates how Indigenous communities all over the world have been using Google mapping tools for cultural preservation and better decision-making around land management.

My Maps: This session will cover how to create quick and easy maps with My Maps, a simple tool for creating interactive and collaborative maps on the web. You’ll also learn how to continue working on your maps with your mobile device, both online and offline. You can choose to share your map with your field team only or to the public or even embed it on your website.

Google Earth Pro: Learn how to use Google Earth to map places of cultural and environmental importance discussed during a field interview. We’ll cover the basics of how to create all the feature types - points, lines, and polygons - for mapping Indigenous knowledge and traditional land use using the Direct-to-Digital method. You’ll also learn how to add further detail to mapped sites using text and images. Finally, we’ll discuss methods of sharing your map with others.

Tour Builder & 3D Storytelling: This session will cover how to tell engaging map-based stories about places of cultural and environmental importance that you can easily share online. Then we'll share techniques for presenting in a 3D landscape using Google Earth Pro, including building virtual flyovers and tours to guide your listeners through the landscape you’re discussing, whether your audience is your community, school children, or an official meeting.

Open Data Kit: This session will cover how to collect Traditional Ecological Knowledge and other information while in the field and sync it to a map, using Android mobile devices and Open Data Kit, an open source platform. Participants will learn how to collect, host and view information in a spreadsheet and on a map. You’ll also learn to build and deploy the survey forms, that can include questions, GPS readings, photos, audio and more.

Google Earth Pro & GIS: In this session participants will learn how to bring different types of datasets into Google Earth Pro which will help in understanding your community, such as historical maps, GIS shapefiles, and GPS data.

Panoramic Imagery: You’ll also learn how to collect your own 360-degree panoramas and use your immersive photos in your maps and VR tours.

All the training materials for IMW Australia 2018 can be found in this Google Drive Folder.

Day One

8-8:30am: Registration

8:30-9:45am: Welcome to Country

9:45-10am: Workshop Overview

10-10:30am: Presentations

• "Ngarluma Ngurra" Roina Williams and Andrew Dowding, Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation
• “Indigenous Cultural Map-making as Process: A Case Study from the Lander Warlpiri“, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, Willowra community, Central Australia and Central Land Council
• Yawar, a cultural mapping project”, Troy Casey and Amelia Radke, Queensland Performing Arts Centre

10:30-11am: Coffee Break

11-11:30am: Indigenous Mapping with Google Tools Overview

11:30-12:30pm: Breakout Session #1: Hands-on with Google My Maps

12:30-1:30pm: Lunch

1:30-3:00pm: Breakout Session #2 (choose one)

• Mapping with Google Earth Pro
• Tour Builder & 3D Storytelling
• Mobile Data Collection with Open Data Kit

3:00-3:30pm: Coffee Break

3:30-4:30pm: Breakout Session #2, continued

4:30-4:40pm: Transition Time

4:40-5:15pm: Presentations

• “Cultural information: Sharing, protecting and data representation” Putuparri (Tom) Lawford, KALACC Cultural Advisor & Ari Schipf, PhD Candidate, The University of Notre Dame
• "Indigenous Mapping in Canada" Steve DeRoy, The Firelight Group
• "Indigenous Mapping in Aotearoa / New Zealand" - Moka Apiti, Digital Navigators Ltd

5:15-5:30pm: Q&A

5:30pm-7:30pm: Welcome Reception

Day Two

9-10am: Presentations

• “Working with Land Claims”, Robert Kelly and Kody Boney, NSW Aboriginal Land Council
• “Locally Historically and Land Claims” Noel Downs, Wanaruah Local Aboriginal Land Council
• “Mapping Kalyu through Songs, Stories and Helicopters” Natasha Busher, Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa
• “Gambay” Annalee Pope, First Languages Australia
• “Our Land Speaks” - can technology help us listen once again? Daryn McKenny, Miromaa Aboriginal Language & Technology Centre
• “Nyungar place names and their means” Len Collard, UWA

10:00-10:30am: Coffee Break

10:30am-1pm: Breakout Session #3 (choose one - these sessions are all repeats of Breakout #2)

• Mapping with Google Earth Pro
• Tour Builder & 3D Storytelling
• Mobile Data Collection with Open Data Kit

1-2pm: Lunch

2:00-2:30pm: Lightning Rounds

1. “Karajarri Cultural Database” Sam Bayley, Karajarri Traditional Lands Association
2. “Building a property information management system for the Aboriginal Lands Trust of SA” Joel Dillon, ILC
3. Christopher Lawrence, UTS

2:30-3:00pm: Coffee Break

3:00-4:30pm: Breakout Session #4

• Tour Builder & 3D Storytelling
• Google Earth Pro & GIS Data
• Panoramic Imagery & VR

4:30-5pm: Closing Session