Free online training for all Journalism students

The UW Oshkosh Department and Journalism and NEWSPA are sponsoring FREE online training for all students.

The May 1 training will be conducted by Mike Reilly, an SPJ digital trainer who has taught Google News Initiative tools to more than 5,000 journalists and educators in the past three years.

The schedule includes:

10:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.: What’s new with Google Tools: Fact-check Explorer, Google Dataset Search, Google Earth Measure tool, Google Earth Timelapse (updated!), Google Public Data Explorer (great for Census)

11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: Building interactive graphics and maps with Google Flourish. Basic data scraping with Google Sheets.

A few days before the training, you will be emailed the link, meeting ID and password to get to the Zoom training.