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Day 1: November 21st
Day 1: November 21st
Day 1, 10:30 AM EST: Technical Sessions 1
Day 1, 10:30 AM EST: Technical Sessions 1
In this session we’ll give an overview of the different technologies in “the Google toolbox” and how Indigenous communities have been using Google mapping tools to map and tell stories about land and water.
My Maps is a quick and easy way to create interactive maps that visualize environmental change. Using My Maps you can add 10 layers of content, customize the appearance of your data, and embed a map in your website. New improvements allow you to export a CSV (spreadsheet) file from your map and update your map layers when new information is added to imported spreadsheet files.
In this session we will do hands-on activities to learn about ways to use Google Forms to gather information from the public, create a response spreadsheet, import the responses into a My Maps, update the map layer when new responses are added to the spreadsheet, customize the map layers, and export map layers as CSV files. We will learn how to fill out Google Forms on phones to facilitate community engagement, but participants will need a laptop in order to create Forms, Sheets, and My Maps. The focus will be on efficient workflows that can be used in community engagement and planning in this time of rapid environmental and climate change.
What is a User Interface? How is it related to the User Experience? In this session we’ll start introducing ourselves in the world of web programming by understanding initial concepts about UI/UX
Google Earth Engine is a powerful platform for analyzing and visualizing changes in land use and land cover over time. In this session we will use Timelapse, Global Forest Watch, Surface Water Explorer, and other tools that were built on the Earth Engine platform in hands-on activities to create animations and conduct analyses. Participants will investigate the impact of fires and floods, learn to use the tools to quantify change, and explore ways to use the tools in their own work. We will also introduce a series of on-demand activities that will help participants learn how to access the full power of Earth Engine for their own work.
Day 2: November 22nd
Day 2: November 22nd
In this session we’ll focus on the technical skills and best practices of mapping Indigenous knowledge and traditional land use with Google Earth using the Direct-to-Digital method. We’ll introduce you to Google Earth and cover the basics of how to create a simple 3D map with all the feature types – points, lines, and polygons – for mapping Indigenous knowledge and traditional land use. You’ll learn how to plan your interview, what questions you might ask, what equipment you’ll need to bring and more.
In this session participants will learn how to bring different types of datasets into Google Earth Pro which will help in understanding your community and facilitating Direct to Digital interviews, such as image overlays (i.e. historical maps), GIS shapefiles, and GPS data.
Indigenous storytelling is deeply rooted in places of meaning, in contrast to stories told in the “Hollywood” style that are disassociated from culturally meaningful places.The 3D immersive imagery of Google Earth allows us to better visualize our stories on a landscape when we come together in a virtual environment. Google Earth Web is a browser based version of Google Earth that is user friendly, creates easily controlled presentations that move through the virtual landscape, and can be shared online. In this session we will work with Joseph Erb to create five beat stories that better reflect storytelling traditions, and use Google Earth Web to virtually walk the land while telling our stories.
Day 3: November 23rd
Day 3: November 23rd
This session will focus on how Google Earth Studio can be used to create custom animations and videos leveraging Google Earth’s imagery database to explore lands and maps in an engaging way.
As we have our website developed using HTML and CSS, we will now in this session learn how we can get important information from the users and store it in Google Spreadsheets that will work as our database.
In this series we learned so far how to create a simple website, connecting it to Google Spreadsheets for storing user information. In this final session we will learn how to render our data to show it on Google Maps, creating a unique user experience.
Trainers
Trainers
Raleigh Seamster
Raleigh Seamster
As a member of the Google Earth Outreach team, I focus on supporting Indigenous communities to use maps. I was a member of the steering committee for the for the inaugural Indigenous Mapping Workshop in 2014 and I'm passionate about building the global network of Indigenous mappers. I've been at Google for 13 years now and was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, right outside Washington, DC.
Peter Solodov
Peter Solodov is a Software Engineer at Google, working on Google Kubernetes Engine. Peter loves traveling and exploring remote places, meeting people and listening to their stories. He’s interested in geospatial storytelling and its role in connecting people and places throughout the world. Peter holds BCompSc degree from Concordia University.
Tara Rush
Tara Rush is an Executive Business Partner @ Google Canada in Cloud AI. She is Mohawk and works on Indigenous efforts both internally and in community.
Cynthia Annett
Cynthia Annett
Dr. Cynthia Annett works with the Kansas State University Tribal Technical Assistance to Brownfields (Tribal-TAB) program to help build capacity for mapping, database management, and e-Tool implementation. She is also a Google Earth Outreach trainer, and in this capacity she works with tribes to develop the ability to map cultural resource inventories as well as environmental assessments.
Joseph Erb
Joseph Erb
Joseph Erb is a digital media artist working in 2D and 3D animation as well as other materials, and he teaches courses in digital storytelling and animation at the University of Missouri. He was the Digital Media and Language Technology Specialist for the Cherokee Nation, creating the first computer-animated film and the first planetarium show in a Native American language. He has worked with tech companies to embed the Cherokee syllabary on the iPhone, iPad, and social media sites as well as Gmail and the search engine Google.
Kristen Vellinger
Kristen graduated from Carleton College in 2012 where she studied International Relations. Following college, she worked in non-profits and social enterprises before joining the Peace Corps in Panama where she focused on health education. She currently works as a Retention and Progression Consultant at Google.
Pablo Listingart
Pablo Listingart
I'm a person who believes in giving first chances to others. As such, I've been providing free training in IT for people facing employment barriers
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