[OSGeo-Edu] Permission to use the Association for Amercan Geographer's GIS&T Body of Knowledge framework

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Good to hear of your interest George.

A while back I tried to break down one of the easiest sections in the
book and do it as an example approach.  You can see it listed here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_Material_Development

In case anyone is interested in trying similar with another part of a
unit :)

Tyler

George Silva wrote:
> I'm not an american geographer, but a brazilian one.
> 
> I've bought AAGs book, and I found it wonderful. I'm not sure about the
> curriculum in US, but it seems a bit different than in Brazil.
> Unfortunately, GIS&T is a side subject, and most colleges focus on Human
> Geography (I'm not sure if this is the correct US term for this kind of
> subject) and tend to let go of the more Physical Geography Studies
> (including cartography and GIST&T).
> 
> I won't be at this meeting, but I'm sure it will be a lot of work and
> fun. I wish we, here in Brazil, could promote a more serious GIS&T
> teaching effort.
> 
> I try, in my own manner, but we are miles far from AAGs.
> 
> I wish you all the best and if i can help in any way, count me in.
> 
> George
> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Alex Mandel
> <tech_dev at wildintellect.com <mailto:tech_dev at wildintellect.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Charlie Schweik wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     >
>     > 2) I'm going to the AAG conference on April 15th in Washington D.C. I
>     > think Helena and I are on a panel about open source GIS being
>     chaired by
>     > Luc Anselin. If anyone else is going, perhaps we could coordinate a
>     > Birds of a Feather meeting that day. Please contact me if you want
>     to do
>     > this.
>     >
>     > More soon, hopefully.
>     >
>     > Cheers
>     >
>     > Charlie
>     >
> 
>     I won't be there this year, but we will have an OSGeo booth being headed
>     up by Eric Wolf. I suggest you advertise a BoF at the booth along with
>     the FOSS session schedule.
> 
>     Also we're still looking for more volunteers to help at the booth for
>     various time slots.
>     http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AAG_2010
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Alex
> 
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> 
> -- 
> George R. C. Silva
> 
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