This one-hour hands-on webinar will introduce planners to Google SketchUp. Topics will include downloading models, walking through the project and exporting the results to Google Earth. This webinar will help you explore using SketchUp for urban design level planning. This is the first part in a series of webinars on Google SketchUp.

Students will gain hands-on, real-world experience building websites with a wide variety of web technologies, including HTML, web page layout and formatting, cascading style sheets, and web-based forms. Additional topics covered include the Internet, search engines, mailing lists, content management systems, geographic information systems, Google Maps, web accessibility, and Section 508. This course also includes a web accessibility checklist you can use with future web development projects and Google Maps Plotter, an interactive, web-based mapping tool that allows users to customize points to appear on a map.

This course is suited for members of the planning community with little or no experience with web technology. Graduates of this course will be able to create websites and confidently make informed web technology decisions.

This one-hour hands-on webinar will introduce you to Google Earth. The session will explore basic tasks for using Google Earth in planning. Topics will include finding places, moving around them, saving a location, viewing a site photo and capturing images for presentation. The subject matter is a compelling exploration of Washington DC with a discussion of the tool’s applicability to planning.

This hour and a half webinar will introduce you to the mechanics of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The session will explore the components of GIS as a tool, rather than the results GIS can produce. The course will help you communicate more effectively with GIS professionals, by helping you understand their priorities and vocabulary. This webinar will improve your understanding of GIS, so you can apply GIS to your planning practice. The session offers an urban planner’s perspective on the components of GIS, emphasizing key concepts, and eliminating non-essential details.

This one-hour hands-on webinar will use Google SketchUp to depict a site in 3-dimensions. Topics will include locating a site, creating simple buildings, applying textures, and digitizing a plan. This webinar will jump start your efforts in learning SketchUp. This is the second part in a series of webinars on Google SketchUp.

This one-hour hands-on webinar will guide you through the process of preparing a Google Earth presentation for a Planning Commission meeting. Topics will include locating site photographs, georeferencing a site plan, creating a project tour and preparing for your presentation.

This one-hour hands-on webinar will demonstrate how planners can use Google Maps to publish basic geographical information on a custom map, and guide you through the process of creating custom maps using Google Maps. Topics will include adding place markers, lines and shapes to maps, placing photos and videos, importing a data set of map points, and using a map to collaborate with others.

This one-hour hands-on webinar will explore using CommunityViz to calculate build-out of a zoning or land use plan. CommunityViz wizard-based tool that simplifies the analysis. Topics will include setting densities, adjusting for existing structures, eliminating constrained lands, siting proposed structures, and exporting the results to Google Earth.

This one-hour hands-on webinar will introduce you to the Suitability tool included in CommunityViz. The wizard-based tool identifies the best locations for various activities. Whether you wish to avoid hazards, calculate walkability, phase infrastructure or protect natural resources, Suitability offers a simpler way to integrate GIS into your analysis.

This one-hour hands-on webinar will guide you through the process of using Google Earth Pro for planning analysis. Topics will include applying a GIS shape file to the terrain, coloring the legend for that layer, locating address points automatically, creating buildings, and thinking like a movie director. Part of the three-part Google Earth Webinar Series.