[OSGeo-Edu] [Fwd: [Workshops] Volunteer opportunities to do talks in education outreach sessions at Foss4G 2008 conference]

[Arnulf Christl]

Hey Edu,
this sounds phantastic. Unfortunately I have said so many times: "Sure, will do" already that I am surely going to run out of time during the conference to actually take on some of this. But the idea is great and we might want to continue this for the next conferences too. 

Best regards, 
Arnulf. 

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Subject: [Workshops] Volunteer opportunities to do talks in education	outreach sessions at Foss4G 2008 conference
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:35:22 +0200
From: graeme mcferren <gmcferren at csir.co.za>
Reply-To: gmcferren at csir.co.za, FOSS4G conference workshops subcommittee	<conference-workshops at lists.osgeo.org>
Organization: CSIR Meraka
To: FOSS4G conference workshops subcommittee	<conference-workshops at lists.osgeo.org>
References: <471D726E.5070301 at confluence.org> <484CB454.5020201 at confluence.org>

Dear Workshop and Lab Presenters

If you feel like presenting the hard work you have done on your
FOSS4G2008 lab or workshop to a further (different) audience, there are
some opportunities to do so as outlined below. The events will take
place away from the main conference venues, but may be a good chance to
get FOSS4G into the hearts and minds of some of our teachers and
students.

Graeme

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"Volunteer opportunities to do talks in education outreach sessions at
Foss4G 2008 conference."

We currently need volunteers to help us in the education outreach
sessions.
We have the following spots that require volunteers. 

Friday morning 9h00-12h00 ( 2x computer labs available) attended by
school geography teachers

    * Option 1. Map-aware where basic map skills are limited. 

!!Volunteers needed: talk about basic mapping with examples!!

    * Option 2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for
teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know where to find
examples to use in the classroom. 

!!Volunteers needed: people who know about web sites that will be useful
to teachers and who have experience with what is happening elsewhere.
this could be 2 different people sharing a session!!

    * Option 3. Hands-on exposure to GIS. 

!!Volunteers needed: to give teachers an overview of GIS functionality.
Software still to be decided in consultation with Department of
Education!! 


or 


Friday afternoon 14h00-17h00 (24 PC'c available) attended by school
geography teachers

  *Option 4. Hands-on demo for geography teachers with exercises they
can implement back in school. Talk on what is happening in the
international scene with GIS in Education. Exposure to OS GIS software.


or 

Friday afternoon 14h00-17h00 (16 PC's available) attended by university
staff and GIS Post-Grad students

  *Option 5.  GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial
data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions
preferably OPEN SOURCE.

> 


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