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<p>Hello GeoForAll educators,</p>
<p>In our OSGeoLive meeting today it was pointed out the OSGeoLive
is being used within some GeoForAll training courses. This is
really exciting for us as OSGeoLive's value add and mission is
very closely aligned with GeoForAll.</p>
<p>What we have is a proven documentation, translation, and software
development and distribution pipeline.</p>
<p>And GeoForAll has access to passionate and dedicated teachers.</p>
<p>It would be awesome if we could combine the two of these
communities and bring both together. I think that the next step to
supercharge such an alliance is to have a person or a few people,
probably from the education space, step forward and weld these two
communities together.</p>
<p>Does this align with the agendas of any of you folk in the
education space? Would there be an opportunity for you to spend
time in a practical outreach role? <br>
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<p>Cheers, Cameron<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/1/18 1:14 am, Charlie Schweik
wrote:<br>
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<div>Just wanted to say -- these pages in the below email are a
really great start, in my humble opinion. Nice work!</div>
<div><br>
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<div>I'd like to circle back to what I was trying to jumpstart
when I did my GeoForAll webinar on Commons-based Peer
Production [0]. <b>What we need to do is self-identify
GeoForAll labs, willing to collaborate on some educational
topic (or research agenda), and start collaborating.</b> </div>
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<div>For example, my colleagues and I at UMass are working on a
set of exercises for an Applications in Unmanned Aerial
Systems class for higher education. As we get initial
exercises done, we will plan to make them available, somehow,
under "In your classroom" [1] with Creative Commons licenses
that allow sharing and permit new derivatives. We're in dialog
with Michael Starek and Phil Davis about this with the goal of
collaboration between our two GeoForAll labs. </div>
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<div>Version control is still a question. </div>
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<div>GeoAcademy uses Github to store their content which is
great. I just worry that for some that might be too technical
for some. There are a number of other options. GitBook [2] is
one, Rice U's OpenStax [3], or even something as simple as
shared, read only, Google Drive folders. I'm going to take
this collaboration opportunity to work on this more. What we
want, I believe, is something very simple, with few rules or
standards that be a negative force slowing down
collaboration. </div>
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<div>In short: </div>
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<div>I encourage other Geoforall labs working in education to
identify two-lab collaboration opportunities to develop and
share GeoForAll educational content in some area that <u>you
need for your own teaching</u>, and let's try and build a
content library moving toward open access to educational
"source" and version control, as a community. Let's see what
new stuff we can have under [1] by the end of summer 2018! </div>
<div><br>
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<div>If anyone takes up this challenge -- let us know! </div>
<div><br>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Charlie</div>
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<div>[0] <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVCDME7cxUA&t=994s"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVCDME7cxUA&t=994s</a></div>
<div>[1] <a
href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.osgeo.org/<wbr>initiatives/geo-for-all/in-<wbr>your-classroom/</a> </div>
<div>[2] <a href="https://www.gitbook.com/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.gitbook.com/ </a></div>
<div>[3] <a href="https://cnx.org/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://cnx.org/</a></div>
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Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a
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style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dear
colleague,<br>
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We now have a new website for GeoForAll [1] and we
are happy to share the teaching and research
resources we have with everyone. It is work in
progress and we will be adding more resources over
time.<br>
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We are also inviting feedbacks to help us improve.
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Please check the resources available at<br>
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<b>For your Teaching</b> <a
href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/"
class="m_6844231942415966359x_OWAAutoLink"
id="m_6844231942415966359LPlnk475437"
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https://www.osgeo.org/<wbr>initiatives/geo-for-all/in-<wbr>your-classroom/</a> <br>
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<b>For your Research</b> <a
href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-research/"
class="m_6844231942415966359x_OWAAutoLink"
id="m_6844231942415966359LPlnk203275"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
https://www.osgeo.org/<wbr>initiatives/geo-for-all/in-<wbr>your-research/</a> <br>
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<b>For your class projects</b> <a
href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/for-your-class-project/"
class="m_6844231942415966359x_OWAAutoLink"
id="m_6844231942415966359LPlnk534828"
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https://www.osgeo.org/<wbr>initiatives/geo-for-all/for-<wbr>your-class-project/</a> <br>
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We have democratized GIS so everyone and our
future generations are now owners of these
resources. Every one of you are also the owners of
all these software and you have full freedom to
use as you wish for your education needs and also
donate it to your students as you wish without any
vendor permissions!<br>
<br>
We thank all colleagues for their selfless efforts
over many years which has helped us to make this
possible. I will always be grateful to every one
of them.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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[1] <a
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https://www.osgeo.org/<wbr>initiatives/geo-for-all/</a> <br>
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