About this Site

Scott Lemmon - Google Earth Outreach Trainer, Web Developer, Grant Writer, Program Developer, Writer, and Instructor.

As a Google Earth Outreach Trainer I use and train others in the use a variety of free Google Geotools. (Various Google Mapping Tools). I also use and train others how to use a basic free Google Tools (programs such as Google Sites, Google Drive, Google Docs....and a very long list of programs). These tools work together in order to share projects with the world. You can also share your projects with a select group of people, or simple to keep private.

I Create and maintain web sites for organizations - Saturday Academy, Saturday Academy Teachers Site, Saturday Academy Activities Site, NoVA Web Site, Wednesday Media Program, Riverview Acres Crime Eliminators.

Teaching Technology, Google Tools, and Google Geotools to students - (I say technology, because we go beyond Google to do whatever the task at hand needs in order to achieve our goals). I have worked and I am working with elementary school, middle school, and high school students. These programs also include working with diversity, working with gang members, and working with honor students.

Training Organizations - Train people to use Google Tools and Google Geotools to maintain your own site. Example: Mount Carmel Redevelopment Group, Struggler's Hill, American Indian Council.

Scott created programs (grant writing) - Examples: Gigaversity Program: a program designed for working with students of different ethnic backgrounds and using digital storytelling and creating e-portfolio's while using Google's Gigabit Fiber Network tools to share online.

• One Thousand Words Program: language preservation and revitalization using Google Tools and Video.
• One Community - Preserving history and promoting the current status of the city of Kansas City, Kansas.
• Water if Life: Stormwater Quality Education Program: Creating a web site, brochure, and video series on the installation of Rain Gardens. Using Google Tools and Google Geotools. It is a program that other communities and other cities will be able to duplicate.
• Programs also using Google and Geotools: my Crime Watch Program, United Way Fire Safety Program, and (if approved) my Neighborhood Crises Response Team program. Another program pending funding is my "Access to Healthy Foods Map and App" project.

Digital Story Telling -Combining video, photos, Google Tools, and Google Mapping to share stories with the world. Example: Cherokee Nation interviews with elders. Liveable Neighborhoods interviews with people from around the city talking about history and current events. Struggler's Hill sharing history.

Workshops - Presentations on Technology, Google Earth Outreach, Google Geotools, Google Tools, Apps for Nonprofits, Google Classroom. Examples: Cherokee Nation National Conference, Community KC Metro KC Event at Kaufman Center, Indigenous Mapping Workshop at Google Fiber Center in Westport.

Training Students how to use Google Geotools and Google Tools to be Interns for organizations. Example: Wyandotte High School, Sumner Academy.

Providing Technology/Google Tools/Google Mapping Tools training to Nonprofits - Examples: Mount Carmel Redevelopment Corporation, Rosedale Development Corporation, Struggler's Hill, Communities Creating Opportunities.

Providing Technology/Google Tools/Google Mapping Tools training to Civic Groups - Example: CommunityKC, Liveable Neighborhoods, Wyandotte County Landbank.

Mapping Projects - Google Geotools have a variety of platforms and projects I am working on with organizations. Examples: Cherokee Nation Mapping of Trail of Tears and sharing it on the basemap and developing an App. Developing a city wide map that has Digital Storytelling from across Kansas City.

Using Google Geotools and Google Tools to promote events, business, and cultural arts districts. Example: Project in development with downtown Overland Park.

Google Earth Outreach Summit in California - Received Training in California and attend Google Headquarters for yearly summits and sharing my mapping projects and work with them and in contact with engineers for developing new technology to help organizations.

Summits - Currently working with Google in California and the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma....creating a world Indigenous communities summit in 2016 to be hosted at the Cherokee Nation. Google personnel and Indigenous Communities from around the world will attend.

Drones - Developing projects that use drones to collect data for mapping projects.

Creating Curriculum - Teaching at Saturday Academy and have students create e-portfolio's, I designed a heart health lesson plan, created materials for the Family Genetics Program.

Videography - Teaching K-State media students how to incorporate video productions and Google Geotools for film productions. Wedding and event videos. Created my own film productions for Summer Science Academy Multi-cultural Night that appeared on local college television, Summer Science Academy Poetry Night Video yearly productions, Summer Science Art/Technology video (combining video work and computer technology morphing of student art work and student photos). The last video has been on display at the Board of Education office and has been requested to be on display (along with student original art) at the Kemper Art Museum. Teaching students how to make video productions using technology such as using computer programs and green screens. I am a professional videographer.

Photography - just about every project mentioned on this page incorporates photography on different levels and incorporates itself into technology. So I can just sum it all up and say....I do a lot of photography to enhance every project I am involved in. Web sites and Mapping projects alone need images to tell the story. I am a professional photographer.

Writing - Along with Grant Writing, I have experience in writing content for magazines and web sites. I also write and maintain for two newsletters. A newsletter for the Kansas City Cherokee Community and one for the K-12 Initiative Programs.

Technology Training Series - Design format and curriculum and teach classes.

Photography/Technology/Mapping - Business View/Street View internal (Mapping with Photography) Example: Setting up projects with the Topeka Capitol Building, Wyandotte County Museum, and the Wichita All-Indian Center.

Non-Profit Experience - I am president of a Nonprofit organization and serve on the board for the Kansas City Cherokee Community and the Region 7 American Indian Consortium. I also train organizations to use Google Apps for Nonprofits. It opens up a wide array of free tools and a way to manage your entire organization.

Saturday Academy and the K-12 Initiative - Technology, Web Site, and Instructor. Curriculum blended with technology, worked with students to create e-portfolio's/web site/resumes. Help students learn and create projects to excel in math, science, and technology. We use the latest technology to accomplish this. We work with middle school and high school students to help give them an edge to move onto college.

Designing Specialized Programs - SUPER GIRLS PROGRAM - Worked with a colleague with a specially designed program. A program designed for the Children's Discovery Center in Topeka for 4th grade girls at a local elementary school in Topeka, Kansas. Google Earth, which can be used offline. Created Google Presentations, which can be kept offline. Young children can still use tools and avoid dangers of the online world! Used the elements of technology, computer science, videography involving green screens, and photography.

Training everyday people how to use the latest technology - Working with the Unified Government in KCK launching a mapping project where we are going to use Digital Storytelling and connect it to a map of historic and current events and important sites via a Google Map of the community. Going to be training citizens who have not used online applications before on how to enter information into the map. I have access to some of the latest tools coming out of Google and there are some key tools that are in beta testing and some that are experimental that can be used for Digital Storytelling.

Problem Solving - Everything that I have talked about above is not a cookie cutter templates but finding solutions to situations in order to excel. When we run across a problem then a solution is needed. Even Google will show you non-Google products to help you succeed at reaching your project goals. But my access a Google Earth Outreach Trainer allows me access to the latest tools, tools that are in beta testing, and access to the engineers for specific design request updates.