Google Earth training for teachers and educators
Tuesday 21 October 2008 at RGS-IBG, London 

These practical workshops show teachers and expedition organisations how to create virtual fieldwork using Google Earth.

Participants get hands-on experience with digital cameras and GPS units, creating mini-fieldwork projects, and transformed data into a Google Earth virtual journey.
Cost:  £141 (£120+ VAT)

  Advanced Google Earth training
Wednesday 22 October 2008 at RGS-IBG, London

This course is designed for people who have already attended the introduction course or are regular advanced users of Google Earth. It will cover how to integrate field data into Google Earth, creating geo-referenced graphs as well as choropleth maps that can be used in the classroom.
Cost: £141(£120+ VAT). Free for those with Chartered Geographer (Teacher) status.

  Follow this link for a video preview of the course

  Further information on the basics of Google Earth can also be found on the Geography Teaching Today website.

  NEW Free Google Earth training - standard and advanced

  Free standard courses
Google™ have recently agreed to sponsor 10 further Google Earth training courses for LEA maintained Geography teachers across the UK. These courses will take place in November 2008 and early 2009:

Belfast                         Cardiff
Edinburgh                   London
Birmingham                Manchester
Newcastle                   Exeter
Southampton              Glasgow

  Free Advanced Courses
The Society's Chartered Geographer (Teacher) scheme has also agreed to sponsor 3 further advanced courses for LEA maintained Geography teachers and all Chartered Geographer (Teachers).

These will take place during November 2008 in:

Birmingham            Newcastle             Southampton

  For further information and to book, please download a booking form from the link on the right.

Theses courses are coordinated by Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop of Digital Explorer.