[Ica-osgeo-labs] Sharing is Caring - Share my Lesson

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Charlie,

Good points. On your point of how we can help incentivise more submissions for OSGeo educational content submission system , I have also been   thinking of ideas on how can we encourage  more people to contribute their inputs (also acknowledge their efforts).

Jonathan Marino (MapStory) emailed me last week on exploring ideas for geobadges for QGIS and connected me to Anastasia Tom and Selene Lawrence at the American Geographical Society. I understand that  badges can also be given for service. For example, we have done Geo4All Educator Awards last year , we can plan to have badges given for all nominees etc and expand ideas for giving GeoBadges for service to OSGeo education activities (from contributing tutorials etc) to acknowledge and encourage more participation.

Anastasia has emailed me some background slides and FAQs which i am sharing with the wider community. I would welcome ideas from the community on how we can make use of this GeoBadges opportunity from AGS for expanding our  impact. Please email your ideas and queries.

Suchith



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From: Charlie Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 2:53 PM
To: Suchith Anand
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Sharing is Caring - Share my Lesson

Hi,

Interesting, Suchith. However, I continue to feel that we want to move toward a system that allows for:

1) the uploading of modular content -- the unit should be "module" rather than a full course, but with a mechanism to provide a full course of modules. This would allow a "buffet" style of resource consumption.

2) the ability to upload source code rather than pdfs, to allow for the creation of new derivative works (e.g., translations, releases of new versions, etc.)

Does this one provide those functions?

One simple step forward for us would be for each lab to start putting their educational (source) content up and linked to their lab website, and we use the OSGeo educational search engine [1] to link to these materials?

I continue to try and get a grant that might fund some work on the next version of our educational repository - it could be to use a system like this one, or it could be something else. We really need a GeoForAll "project" effort to figure out the right strategy. Finally, I also think  that some kind of "publication" system might help to incentivize submissions.

My two cents,

Charlie

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear All,

I came across this website called Share my Lesson  https://sharemylesson.com  . The site has more than 900,000 registered users, and all submissions are either licensed as CC BY-NC-SA or CC BY-NC-ND. Originally launched by American Federation of Teachers  and TES Global back in 2012. Looks like a great way to collaborate for our spatial literacy plans .

See some examples on GIS at https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/using-gis-prepare-tropical-storms-162579

Chris or any US colleagues- do you know any contacts in American Federation of Teachers or Share my Lesson?

We can then jointly work on MapStory based lesson plans for various levels (primary, secondary etc). All ideas welcome.

Suchith




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