Agenda

The agenda is still a work in progress, but it should include most of the following items:

Thursday August 6th

9:30-10:30am: Registration

10:30-11am: Welcome, Introductions & Overview

11-12pm: Google Maps Basics

• How are people finding you? What are they finding about you?
• How to improve your listing
• How to make it easier for people to find you from your website (adding Google Maps link)
• Hands-on Activity:
  • Assessment of how you appear on Maps right now?
  • Claim your listing
  • Improve your listing

12-1pm: Lunch

1-1:30pm: Intro to Street View

• SV Overview
• VFH Project case study

1:30-3pm: Learn how to collect your own Street View

• Take your own Photospheres
• Partner with VFH to collect imagery with Tripod

3-3:30pm: Coffee break

3:30-5pm: Learn how to use Street View to educate and tell stories

• Incorporate Street View in your website
  • How to embed Street View
  • Ideas for highlighting the imagery
• Storytelling
  • Storyspheres
  • Create tours of Street View imagery
• Classroom use
• Virtual reality experiences
  • Cardboard
  • Oculus

Friday August 7th

9-10:30am: Storytelling with Maps

• Case Study: Brendan’s Tour Builder story (15 mins)
• Tour Builder (1:15)

10:30-11am: Coffee break

11-12:30pm: Google Earth

• Annotation
• Historic map overlays
• Touring

12:30-1:30pm: Lunch

1:30-2:30pm: My Maps

• Jane Goodall Institute case study, Stephanie Keller
• Hands-on with My Maps

2:30-3pm: Closing Session

• Reflection
• Resources (including Cultural Institute)
• Q&A
• Evaluation

3pm: End