[OSGeo-Edu] Our past discussions about curriculum collaboration

[Mueller, Thomas]

Sorry for the second email, but I wanted to send this via my calu email (which has been on the fritz).  That is an interesting idea.  I have a few crime mapping lessons that I could re-work for open source.  My student and I also took a set of basic lessons on watershed and converted them to MapWindow and QGIS.  I am going to ask the professor that we worked on those lessons for if we can share them.

Thanks

Tom Mueller



Thomas R. Mueller, Ph.D., GISP
Advisor: Geography Major with GIS and Emergency Management Concentration
Co - Director: Pennsylvania View
Department of Earth Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania
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--- On Mon, 8/16/10, Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:

From: Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Our past discussions about curriculum collaboration
To: "Daniel Ames" <amesdani at isu.edu>
Cc: "OSGeo-edu" <edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 3:54 PM

Hi Dan,

Daniel Ames wrote:
> Charlie et al,
> On question #3 I'd love to see generic GIS lab exercises that can be executed in any number of desktop GIS tools. How could this be crafted? Maybe we come up with 10 exercises and we could write all the generic material define the format etc. then invite participants from each of the desktop GIS teams to edit it with their own screen captures and specifics. This would be totally cool because then we'd have 3 to 5 lab manuals that teach the identical material - each one using different software.  What do you (and others) think of this approach?
+1

... and we could follow the production guidelines that Cameron was outlining... I have an introductory GIS course for natural resource conservation students where I have a whole set of lab exercises I could pick and choose from, and I'm sure you and others do too. If others agree, maybe we can start a wiki page organizing the kinds of exercises we each have to offer.

Depending on if others think +1 too, is a goal to have a draft with at least some exercises completed by FOSS4G doable? And would anyone be interested in becoming an editor? ( I'm possibly willing to do it as a co-editor but would want /need some help...)

Charlie

P.S. By the way, congrats to Ned Horning in our group for his new book: "Remote Sensing for Ecology and Conservation", just published by Oxford (there is a paperback version too).  http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/Ecology/ConservationBiology/?view=usa&ci=9780199219940


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