These two sessions 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, including building virtual tours to guide your listeners through the landscape you’re discussing, whether your audience is your community, school children, or an official meeting.
Part 1 will cover Indigenous Storytelling and will demonstrate examples of how to tell a 5 beats story using Google Earth Web.
Part 2 will show you how to build a Google Earth Web maps to help tell your story and will include hands-on activities for developing your own storytelling map.
You'll need to use a desktop or laptop computer (on mobile, you can view stories created in Google Earth Web but you can't edit them).
Connect your computer to the internet.
Open a web browser and go to earth.google.com/web
Sign in with your Google account or create a Google Account.
Tutorial on creating maps and stories with Google Earth Web
Custom Icon Libraries for Indigenous Mapping
Use the Jamboards to tell us about a story idea that you have that will be appropriate for the 5 beats method of Indigenous storytelling. Take screenshots of Google Earth Web to show us one or more locations that you will use in the story.
You can edit the Jamboards without signing in, but if you wish to add photos you will need to sign into a Google Account. If you do not have one you can create one by clicking here.