Take advantage of the best mobile and digital media training in the country at the MobileMe&You pre-conference training on Thursday, Oct. 25, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mark your calendars now.
The daylong pre-conference training by Mike Reilley, Society of Professional Journalists digital tools trainer, will focus on using Google tools and mobile media to gather and distribute information. The pre-conference training is free for those who register for the MobileMe&You Conference. COJMC students may register for free by using the code UNL-STUDENT.
This training is planned for people who do the daily work of information gathering and distributing. It works for students, professors, journalists, advertisers or public relations specialists. You won’t find a better training on cutting edge media anywhere in the country.
Here’s what you will learn:
Schedule:
10 a.m. to 10:55 a.m.: Your desktop and Google mobile: A look at Google Earth Pro, Google Earth measure tool and the Timelapse tool. What happens to your Google Streetview images once they’re posted live to the web? We’ll show you.
11 a.m. to noon: More desktop: Google basics and Google Trends, Google Reverse Image Search and verification tools, Google Scholar. Fun with Google AutoDraw.com
Noon-1 p.m.: Lunch
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.: More desktop: Data scraping with Google Sheets, scraping. PDFs with Tabula. Google MyMaps and Fusion Tables (charts and maps). Fun with Google Flourish and Google Public Data Explorer.
3:15 p.m.-4:20 p.m.: Mobile, Immersive and Google: Google Streetview, Cardboard and Cardboard Camera apps. We’ll do some hands-on shooting with Streetview (prizes for the best ones!)
4:30 p.m. to 5:50 p.m.: Mobile reporting apps that can work for you. Mix of presentation and hands-on work with fun mobile apps you can put in your reporting workflow and classrooms right now. Hands-on work in the second half of the session.
For more information, contact Gary Kebbel, garykebbel@unl.edu.