[OSGeo-Edu] Update on curriculum effort
Charlie Schweik
cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
Tue Jan 12 21:37:45 EST 2010
Hi Tom,
T M wrote:
> I am working on a MapWindow lesson and possibly a QGIS lesson if that
> will help. They will not be ready until late Fall 2010.
>
Great - I encourage you and others to put them up on our inventory page
[1, 2] when they are done so we know about them! Also consider making
the source available for others to use and modify through our subversion
system [3, 4]... Thanks!
Does anyone else have anything new to offer up? Thanks all in advance!
Charlie
[1] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
[3] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/education/
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Subversion_edu_instructions
>
> Tom
>
>
> GIS 4 LIFE !
>
> --- On *Tue, 1/12/10, Cameron Shorter /<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>/*
> wrote:
>
>
> From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Update on curriculum effort
> To: "Charlie Schweik" <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
> Cc: "OSGeo-edu" <edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org>,
> "live-demo at lists.osgeo.org" <live-demo at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 5:10 PM
>
> Charlie and osgeo-edu committee,
>
> We have just started the building of the 2010 DVD. There are links
> to all project specific information here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
>
> Of particular note is:
> Schedule:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tMRaCwabv7SiIG3moHEfMrQ&hl=en_GB
> <http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tMRaCwabv7SiIG3moHEfMrQ&hl=en_GB>
>
> Release 3.0: feature freeze in 3 weeks, final deliverable in April.
> Release 4.0 (for FOSS4G 2010), feature freeze, end of June. Final
> deliverable in September.
>
> Also,
> The list of packages, versions, and point of contact is at:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB
> <http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB>
>
> We do currently have very light documentation: A one line project
> description, and a one page description for each project as
> specified here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build#Writing_docs
> These docs were filled out for us by each project.
>
> What I would like is for someone to define the structure for the
> next level of documentation, which I assume would be tutorials
> which explain how to use these applications. If we make it easy
> for people to write docs (by defining the templates) and then add
> a strong incentive for writing them (the docs will be put on the
> LiveDVD and handed out at FOSS4G and used as teaching material in
> colleges) then the docs will be written. This is the principle we
> used very successfully for getting ~ 20 developers to contribute
> to the LiveDVD in a very short period of time.
>
> Charlie Schweik wrote:
> > Hi Cameron,
> >
> > Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >> Charlie and others,
> >>
> >> I'm involved in the development of the Geospatial Live DVD
> which is handed out at geospatial conferences like FOSS4G.
> http://arramagong.com <http://arramagong.com/>
> >>
> >> The DVD contains a suite of most of the most popular Geospatial
> Open Source applications. We currently have installed brief
> instructions on how to run each application, but I would like to
> see much more comprehensive documentation.
> >>
> >> In particular, I'd like teachers to be able to hand out a DVD
> to each of their class, and then have the class walk through
> tutorial material developed by the education committee and
> installed on this DVD.
> > This is a great vision, and there was this vision articulated
> last year as well, but it seems we are struggling to actually make
> it happen. Somehow, it seems to me, that we need a systematic
> process of looking at what will be on the DVD, and then someone
> looking through the educational content we have in our inventory
> to see if any of it could be used in this fashion. Is it possible
> to get a point person assigned to each software product on the DVD
> to do this kind of search?
> >>
> >> I also believe that project developers will help develop this
> training material, if they are given clear guidance on what needs
> to be developed. Ie, we need to tell the community what format to
> write documents in (ooffice, docbook, html, word?), and provide a
> template with headings and instructions about what needs to be in
> each section, then have an example that people can follow.
> > Two years ago, we tried very hard to come up with some
> documentation standards. We investigated the use of Docbook, for
> example and a couple other approaches (latex was one I remember).
> From my own perspective, I was thinking open office writer was the
> easiest format for others to use with little learning curve. But
> the conclusion that came out of that was people tended to want to
> use the format that was most useful to them. We can try to do this
> again, but it has been challenging to gain any group traction.
> >
> > It would be fantastic if the project developers could help with
> this effort. I've been wanting to get a closer relationship
> between the project developers working on documentation and the
> education group's efforts. Is having a developer from each project
> being a point person for their software a possibility to make this
> happen this year?
> >
> > What software and versions will be on this years DVD, Cameron?
> >
> > Can we try and get people to sign up and take the lead (one for
> each software package, perhaps) to gather or encourage others in
> the development of material to go on this DVD?
> >>
> >> Note also that there are a number of Australian educational
> institutions interested in creating this material too whom I'm
> expecting will contribute to the material development.
> > I hope everyone will encourage others who might be doing this to
> use our educational inventory submission page and the educational
> subversion for material.
> >
> > Those are my thoughts....
> >
> > Cheers
> > Charlie
> >>
> >>
> >> Charlie Schweik wrote:
> >>> Hi edu folks,
> >>>
> >>> Happy New Year all! I'm hoping we all can commit ourselves to
> making some great progress as a group over the next six months in
> advance of the next FOSS4Geo conference, related to developing a
> framework for organizing OSGeo-related curriculum and educational
> material, and continue to strive for a working system where we
> share content and build on each other's content. As you forge
> ahead in your own work in 2010, please think about how that work
> might relate to what we are doing and you try and contribute to
> our joint efforts...
> >>>
> >>> On my end, I just wanted to report in that I've been working
> on my end to get permission for us to possibly use the University
> Consortium for Geographic Information Science and Association for
> American Geographer's GI S&T Body of Knowledge [1] as an
> overarching framework for guiding our future curriculum efforts.
> The framework is under copyright by both UCGIS and AAG, but *I've
> received permission by the UCGIS folks to use this material*. I'm
> now contacting AAG to get their permission since it is under joint
> copyright.
> >>>
> >>> I struggle a little bit with this because of the copyright
> issues and the philosophy of openness and sharing. But this seems
> to be, in my view, a very good guiding framework for us to follow.
> I'm thinking that somehow we would connect this to the discussions
> we've had about material that demonstrates how to do some
> particular function or process using open technologies.
> >>>
> >>> If anyone has any objections to this direction I am taking,
> let me know, or let me know if we need to open this up to a vote.
> >>>
> >>> Finally, two other things:
> >>>
> >>> 1) Don't forget about adding new educational content to our
> inventory page [2] through the submit function [3]. The last
> postings were September of 2009 -- someone surely has other
> material developed since then.
> >>>
> >>> 2) We need people to start building on what Helena has done
> related to the process of putting material in Subversion so we can
> continue to move toward a "new derivatives" type system of sharing
> content. Can somebody step up and build on Helena's work to get
> that process documented for others to use? Here's what we have
> linked on our group education/curriculum page [4]. What we want,
> I think, is to more clearly connect this process to our submit
> function [3].
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Charlie
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> http://www.ucgis.org/priorities/education/modelcurriculaproject.asp
> >>> [2] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
> >>> [3] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content
> >>> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Subversion_edu_instructions.
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> >>
> >
>
>
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