The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications in partnership with the Society of Professional Journalists and the Google News Initiative will hold a Google tools training on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium on UNL City Campus.
The workshop will provide free training for students interested in using Google tools to improve their research, news gathering, reporting, storytelling, market analysis and creative projects. The training will cover a variety of Google tools, including:
Google Trends
Google Scholar for reporting
Google Reverse Image search and other verification tools
Advance Search Modifiers
Google Dataset Search (New)
Google Flourish Studio (New)
Google Earth Studio (New)
Google Earth Pro
Google Earth Engine Timelpase
Google Public Data Explorer
Datascraping with Google Sheets and other tools
The workshop will be led by Mike Reilley of MediaShift.org. Reilley, a COJMC alum, is an SPJ digital trainer who has taught Google News Initiative tools to more than 4,000 journalists and educators in the past 2.5 years. When he’s not on the road doing trainings, he teaches data and multimedia journalism at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he is a visiting professor.
A former reporter at the LA Times and web editor at the Chicago Tribune, Mike served for 13 years as a faculty member at Northwestern, Arizona State University and DePaul University, teaching digital journalism to hundreds of students and professional journalists.
He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (undergrad) and Northwestern University (masters).
This workshop is appropriate for all students. Google tools can be applied across disciplines and majors. There are no pre-requisites for the workshop. Participants should bring a laptop and/or mobile device.
The workshop is free but registration is required. Learn more and register by Feb. 4, 2019, at go.unl.edu/upay.
For questions, please contact Gary Kebbel at (402) 472-3075 or garykebbel@unl.edu
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/upay