Come and take a tour of Google's recently announced Maps Engine. Learn how to draw on, style, layer, and import data into your maps. Sharing and collaborating your powerful custom maps is easy and we'll highlight ideas for classroom use and sample maps.
Also learn to build your own tour using the new Google Tour Builder and learn how to use these for skills to enhance students learning in Geography, History, Literacy and other subjects.Google Apps were made for the digital-age classroom. Whether an interested newbie or a seasoned techie looking for a way to tie all you do together, the Digital-age Classroom: Get in the Game session has something for you.
Based on the constructivist principles of learning by doing and learning through collaboration, this session will address the use of a Google site to start (or further) the development of:
How far you go depends on you as this is a go-at-your-own pace session. The website will remain open so your learning need not stop here.
We will explore basics of:
The Google Site will be your sandbox, ready-to-use come Monday in your own classroom.
The Google Drive skills will make your site better.
The other skills and understandings developed will last you a lifetime.
Technology is changing the way we learn and teach, dealing with these changes can sometimes be difficult. The keynote will go through the new technologies that are having a impact our lives and come up with solutions of how we can enhance and transform the learning experiences for our students.
What is changing? Types of technology that are having an impact on our daily life
Why education needs to change? The difference between digital immigrants and nativesThe Google Admin console - GAC - is an already powerful tool for managing your Google Apps domain. This session will explore several third party options for adding extra features including auto reports, domain stats and advanced user search. The session is designed for Google Apps Admins and assumes that participants will have admin access to their domains.
This is a Basic Fusion Tables session taking users deeper into customization options for intensity maps:
- Layering maps and markers
- Placing charts within info windows
- Working with .kml files
- Other charts and summary tools
Great for statistical analysis and data exploration or research for Math, Social Sciences and Science teachers, or those working in higher education or research fields.
View: http://goo.gl/4M3Nx and http://goo.gl/g7FZ7z for samples of what we will produce.
(Please note this session is suitable for attendees with experience in Fusion Tables or whom have attended the first ‘Visualizing Big Data with Google Fusion Tables’ session)