The "lacking functionality" problem is definitely a challenge of this approach. Of course this also presents an opportunity for project developers to identify deficiencies that need work. In any case, I would really like to see these desktop teaching materials get put together and will participate with anyone who wants to work on writing them :) - Dan<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Ned Horning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nedh@lightlink.com">nedh@lightlink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Dan,<br>
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A similar idea has popped up in the past to create something like the
document "How Do I Do This in ArcGIS/Manifold?: Illustrating Classic
GIS Tasks" (<a href="http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/165" target="_blank">http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/165</a>). I
have considered starting something along these lines for remote sensing
but never got my act together to get it started. One possible
limitation of the exercise approach is that the same functionality
might not be available in all of the packages so for some software it
might not be possible to complete all of the exercises without tapping
into other software for specific steps.<br><font color="#888888">
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Ned</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 08/16/2010 12:50 PM, Daniel Ames wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Charlie et al,
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<div>On question #3 I'd love to see generic GIS lab exercises that
can be executed in any number of desktop GIS tools. How could this be
crafted? Maybe we come up with 10 exercises and we could write all the
generic material define the format etc. then invite participants from
each of the desktop GIS teams to edit it with their own screen captures
and specifics. This would be totally cool because then we'd have 3 to 5
lab manuals that teach the identical material - each one using
different software. What do you (and others) think of this approach?</div>
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<div>- Dan</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Charlie
Schweik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu" target="_blank">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">Hi
OSGeo folks,<br>
<br>
This is related to Group ToDo #7 on our wiki todo page [1] --
Collaborative curriculum planning...<br>
<br>
I've been thinking about our past discussions on how we can make some
progress around some kind of coordinated educational curriculum effort.
You may recall we were talking last year about using AAG's GIS&T's
Body of Knowledge as an organizing framework, and I actually got
permission from them to use it. More recently, I've discovered that it
isn't open access which deters me from using it. Since then I've
discovered the Geospatial Technology Competency Model developed by the
U.S. Dept of Labor [2].<br>
<br>
One way we might do this is to try and organize full courses some of us
have developed or are developing that are relevant to OS geospatial
education. And one way we could market these courses more is if we as a
group [OSGeo edu] considered joining the Open Course Ware Consortium as
a non-profit affiliate member [3]. What I don't like about this option
is that it would require an annual fee of $500 to do this, and it might
be complicated for course developers in our group who have
institutional copyright issues. But I think this might be one way to
start organizing our individual curriculum and sharing that, in
addition to our efforts to share educational material we are writing.<br>
<br>
Questions:<br>
<br>
1) Should we try to start inventorying and organizing our individual
courses in a similar way we are inventorying educational content?<br>
2) Do people think the OCWare Consortium is something we should look
into further?<br>
and an outstanding question from a previous email:<br>
3) Did anyone want to take on leading an effort to develop an edited
volume/handbook of OS Desktop GIS and/or on OS web GIS as Venka
suggested in our IRC? (Thanks to Ned Horning for volunteering to try
and lead the ongoing educational content inventory effort).<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Charlie<br>
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[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_goals_and_to_dos" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_goals_and_to_dos</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3528ks8" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/3528ks8</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/howtojoin" target="_blank">http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/howtojoin</a><br>
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