[FOSS4G2016] Education at FOSS4G 2016

[Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]

Dear Till,

I hope you have really great time in Seoul :-) Thank you so much for comments
and suggestions. Pointing out specific "educational slots" within general track
sounds good for me. 

Volker, how should we proceed to make this "officially" happen? :-)

Concerning workshop - availability of hardware is not crucial. Participants can
bring their own devices. We will discuss options among GeoForAll community and
come back to you. 

Regards, 
Ela 

> Dnia 15 wrzesień 2015 o 01:41 till.adams at fossgis.de napisał(a):
> 
> 
> Dear Ela,
> 
> nice to hear from you. I am not involved in the GeoFor all Community 
> till now, but I think it's time to change that ASAP ;-).
> 
> (I've CC'd Volker, who is our program director, so you should in 
> general discuss the contents with Volker).
> 
> I like the ideas you present and yes, I agree, that a seperate track 
> might be too much. On the other side, we should care for, that the 
> "education slots" are visible, so might be a good alternative to a 
> "track" to mark some sessions specially?
> 
> For the workshop, that'll be fine. There are several opportunities I 
> can offer: Of course you might offer your workshop(s) in the general 
> workshop programme, so attendees might book that as other workshops as 
> well. We also have some rooms available (without hardware) in a 
> different location in Bonn.  There are two workshop rooms (20-25 
> persons) and a bigger one for about 70 persons - and it looks like, we 
> can get the rooms for free. On tuesday before the event, we've planned 
> kind of "business B2B pre-conference" there. So these rooms are either 
> available on monday (22.8.2016) or the two smaller workshop rooms also 
> on tuesday.
> 
> So far for now, greetings from Seoul!
> Till
> 
> 
> 
> Am 2015-09-12 18:28, schrieb Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska:
> > Dear Till,
> >
> > My name is Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska. I’m a GI practitioner and
> > educator, part
> > of the GeoForAll community, leading the ICA-OsGeo Lab in
> > UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
> > (Warsaw, Poland).
> >
> > I’m writing in relation to upcoming FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn. At FOSS4G
> > Europe 2015
> > in Como GeoForAll community members had a chance to meet and discuss 
> > some
> > important and urgent topics related to education with FOSS4G. As the
> > result of
> > our talks, some ideas came on how to make geoeducators (and 
> > educational
> > activities in general) more ‘visible’ during the next FOSS4G event. 
> > So I was
> > asked to share and discuss these ideas with you. We thought about two 
> > main
> > possibilities:
> >
> > 1) dedicated session(s)
> > In Como there were few oral presentations made by educators and they 
> > were
> > included in different thematic sessions. So we thought about having 
> > separate
> > educational session(s) at FOSS4G 2015. Within GeoForAll community 
> > there are
> > people working with professionals, students but also with teachers
> > and pupils at
> > schools (so the youth aged 6-18), etc. So to gather them all could be 
> > a great
> > opportunity to show different perspectives on geoeducation, share 
> > amazing
> > experience they have and discuss challenges they face in everyday 
> > work.
> >
> > Concerning organizational issues, we see education as one of the 
> > dedicated
> > topics within a General Track. By putting it into General Track (and 
> > not
> > Academic one) we would like to attract not only academics who deal
> > with students
> > at the universities, but also non-formal educators (from NGOs,
> > business sector,
> > public administration, individuals), teacher trainers or even school 
> > teachers
> > themselves.
> >
> > And separate track could be too much for the beginning :-)
> >
> > 2) workshop for teacher trainers
> > Some of the ICA-OsGeo Labs representatives put our attention on a 
> > need to
> > organize a workshop for teacher trainers. General idea is to exchange
> > experience
> > on how FOSS4G can be implemented in a school education (so with 
> > pupils aged
> > 6-18) - how to convince teachers to use it in a classroom, what are 
> > specific
> > examples, etc.
> >
> > I would be grateful for your comments on these two ideas. Is it 
> > possible to
> > think about dedicated session and workshop? How should we proceed
> > further to put
> > them officially into an agenda?
> > If you need any more information, please let me know. We can also
> > have a Skype
> > meeting if more convenient.
> >
> > I’m ccing Suchith Anand (leader of the GeoForAll initiative) and
> > Charlie Schweik
> > (Chair of the OSGeo Education and Curriculum committee). Hope they 
> > both who
> > would be able to add some more comments on our ideas.
> >
> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> > Ela
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
> > Head of Education Unit
> >
> > UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
> > Sobieszynska 8, 00-764 Warsaw
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