[OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT Collaborative education research?

Charlie Schweik cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
Mon Nov 6 05:16:39 PST 2017


Thanks everyone! I'm looking forward to Friday's presentation and community
discussion!
Stay tuned. I plan to send out some pre-webinar "contemplation questions"
for the GeoForAll community to consider prior to Friday. Probably on
Thursday.

Cheers

Charlie


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 8:08 AM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy> wrote:

> Thank you Rafael for your terrific work managing all these webinars. And
> congratulations Charlie for a wonderful idea for this upcoming webinar.
>
> Best,
>
>
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Departamento de Geomática
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
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> *De:* GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de
> Moreno-sanchez, Rafael <Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu>
> *Enviado:* viernes, 03 de noviembre de 2017 17:22
> *Para:* Suchith Anand; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
> *Asunto:* [Geo4All] Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT
> Collaborative education research?
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Last Monday we had a fantastic presentation by Carolina Arias and Carlos
> Castro through the GeoForAll Iberoamérica  webinar series on preparing
> educational materials for geomatics courses. An interesting approach on how
> to create effective hands-on exercises and materials for supporting
> geomatics courses using FOSS4G.
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> Kind reminder a week from today, Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT we have the
> following participatory webinar: *Can we initiate some GeoForAll
> collaborative education_research?*
>
>
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> To join participatory webinar:
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> https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/563231430
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>
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> *Can we initiate some GeoForAll collaborative education_research?*
>
>
>
> We undoubtedly agree: The GeoForAll network is terrific. We have ~120 labs
> scattered throughout the world, we’ve identified some collaborative
> research and education areas (e.g., OpenCitySmart, GeoAgriculture), and
> there are some significant collaboration going on across nodes, such as the
> NASA Europa Challenge. But we may have only scratched the surface on what
> we can, collectively, accomplish. Can we do even better?
>
> In this participatory webinar, Charlie Schweik of the University of
> Massachusetts, Amherst, will be posing the question to the GeoForAll
> community: Can we initiate and “incubate” some GeoForAll collaborative
> research or educational projects? After presenting this idea in more
> detail, we will open the webinar to community discussion and how to
> possibly move, collectively, forward
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________
>
> Rafael Moreno, Ph.D.
>
> Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences
>
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>
> *From:* GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Suchith Anand
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 2, 2017 1:49 PM
> *To:* discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [Geo4All] Please share the Philosophy of Openness in
> Geospatial Science  and Education on GIS Day and other Geo events
>
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> It  is over a decade now since we started working on the philosophy of
> Openness in Geospatial Science  and Education. The pace of change in the
> GIS in the last decade towards Openness has been beyond even my
> expectations.
>
> May i request all who are taking part in various Geo events (Geography
> Awareness Week, OSM Geo Week, GIS day etc ) to  make use of the opportunity
> to promote Open Principles in GeoEducation by sharing information on
> GeoForAll and welcoming those interested to be part of Open Principles in
> Science and Education. Please share the  pledge for  supporting Open
> Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for
> everyone.
>
> The ideas are summarized at https://www.slideshare.net/
> SuchithAnand/the-future-of-geo-is-open
>
> We welcome everyone to support Open Principles for Science and Education
> for building a better world for everyone.
>
> *The Future of Geo is For Everyone...*
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
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-- 
Charlie Schweik

Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation &
School of Public Policy
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Make positive change in your sphere of influence." -- CMS
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