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[SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA]

Hi all and sorry for the delay in answering this mail. I had doubts about where to send this answer: to the geoforall global list or to the Teacher Training & School Education thematic one (I'm not sure how active this list actually is).
Thank you Nikos for your ideas, very inspiring. My 2 cents:
 - in my humble experience I had learned that we need to focus on teachers, and that it is not an easy task to motivate them. We don't need to worry much about students: they'll probably go faster than teachers and this fact may put teachers in an uncomfortable situation
 - in the Batov? project our first intention was to work with Primary and Secondary simultaneously. The experience -here- showed that was better to work first with Secondary until we have a tool specially customized for working with school teachers (and students). At gvSIG they are now in this job and we'll hopefully have a new version soon. Anyone in the network that would like to learn more about it or would like to contribute please tell me and I'll let them know
 - if Ela needs any help for updating the wikipage of the Teacher Training & School Education thematic group just let me know
 - I agree with Nikos idea that each Lab should make a webpage and to have a Central webpage which will share the news (etc.) to all Labs and each Lab has its own webpage, in the local language, for the teachers and students. Although it's not easy, it's a very good idea
 - regarding connections with existing education networks I can try to connect with OLPCs and other similar networks
 - in regards to Phil's idea of organizing a teacher training workshop during an event near you for teachers & educators from local schools and universities we have already been doing this and we'll continue doing it. By the way we are organizing a training activity with a High School that will have a special event during September 10th (with special media coverage). It will be great to have an online exchange with any -preferably-  Spanish speaking member of the group in order to present the initiative. So if anyone in the network would like to join just tell me (it will be between 10 and 13 local time, -3 UTC)
 - the idea of a competition is great; we already tried to implement one here but we still haven't done it.
That's all for the moment, thanks.
Best wishes to all,?


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geom?tica
Direcci?n Nacional de Topograf?a
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras P?blicas
URUGUAY
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