[OSGeo-Edu] Educational content, subversion and preparing for the FOSS4Geo

Fri Sep 19 09:15:08 EDT 2008

Hi OSGeo edu folks,

Sorry for my long absence. I was traveling back to the states from New
Zealand and have been caught up with work related to my university.

A couple things:

1) TUTORIAL ON SUBVERSION LIBRARY FOR EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL

Attached is a tutorial my colleague Sasha wrote up (thanks Sasha) on the
OSGeo edu Subversion system (I'm rushing, but the next version will be in
ODF or on the wiki directly). Sorry we didn't get this to you a little
earlier, but it would be *wonderful* if one or more people on this list with
content tried to get their work uploaded to this library *this week* so I
could demonstrate this at FOSS4Geo. 

Note the approach we used with our material. You'll see that on our
Educational Content wiki page our tutorials are linked to the subversion pdf
files. [1]

2) There has been a little activity on our educational inventory page... if
you have new or revised material that you don't want to store on Subversion
but want others to know about, please add your links this week so I can
showcase all of it at this conference.

3) I expect I will be making a short presentation on our group in the
conference. If you have any points you think I should say, please email them
to me.

Thanks all... please make a special effort if you can this week to do any or
all of the above. 

[1]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Educational_Content_Inventory#Introduction_to_FOS
S_GIS_using_QGIS_.8.2C_PostgreSQL.2C_PostGIS.2C_and_the_Grass_plugin_for_QGI
S

-----Original Message-----
From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Gavin Fleming
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 3:55 AM
To: Arnulf Christl; OSGeo-edu; gmcferren at csir.co.za
Cc: Alize Botha
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Edu] [Fwd: [Workshops] Volunteer opportunities to do
talksin education outreach sessions at Foss4G 2008 conference]

Yes if you're going to be at FOSS4G and you have Monday morning, Friday
morning or Friday afternoon free, please see
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2008_Activities and let Alize (cc'd)
know what you'd like to do. 

The venues and audiences have largely been arranged - we just need some
more volunteers to present / lecture / teach / demonstrate! So of course
they are adaptable to you and your subject matter or software. 

Gavin 

-----Original Message-----
From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Arnulf Christl
Sent: 19 September 2008 09:48 AM
To: OSGeo-edu; gmcferren at csir.co.za
Subject: [OSGeo-Edu] [Fwd: [Workshops] Volunteer opportunities to do
talks in education outreach sessions at Foss4G 2008 conference]

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. 

-------- Original Message --------
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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