[Ica-osgeo-labs] Education at FOSS4G 2016

[labrinos at eled.auth.gr]

Dear all,

 

To be honest, I am getting confused. One time you are talking about university education and the nest time about schools.

Maybe we should decide or group our desires. 

Some should think about the tertiary education, some about secondary and others (like me) about primary. Should we allocate different people, as contact persons, to lead the discussion for each level of education?

 

regards

Nikos

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From: ica-osgeo-labs [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Antoni Perez Navarro
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 11:44 AM
To: ela at gridw.pl; cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Education at FOSS4G 2016

 

Hi Ela,

I find the ideas absolutely wonderful. 
Regarding workshop for teachers, in Como we talked also about to look for funding in order to open it to people around Europe, and not only germany. But we all agreed that it would be difficult in schools.

On the other hand, in Spain we are having some debate around how difficult is to find students in GIS, although geographic information seams key. If it is a generic problem, maybe it would be interesting to prepare a round table to talk about the item.
Some of us think that the term GIS is not a fashion term and maybe we should have to "fashionate" it. I don't know. 

Best regards,

Toni

 
Antoni Pérez Navarro 
Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació 
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 
 
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Hi Ela, 

 

See my thoughts below in-line:

 

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:32 PM, El?bieta Wo?oszy?ska-Wi?niewska <ela at gridw.pl> wrote: 


There are two main options:

No. 1 ? conference itself (24-26th of August)

Education will be mentioned as one of the special topics in the General track. So during the general program selection a special focus will be put on education-related presentations. The idea was not to make these presentations too much research-oriented (as in acadeic track) but really practical.
As Volker (chair of program committee) mentioned:"My plan is to give the slots (3 talks in a row) some kind of topic. Those would be then be ?education?.
I really like this idea ? it would help to make this topic more visible and help people who are interested to find proper time and room ;-)

I think this is a good idea. 

 

In Como, you'll recall there was a paper by the NCSU team about their educational material and how they made datasets generic, or perhaps people could consider presenting issues such as how they are teaching various topics like geocrowdsourcing, Volunteer geographic information, geo-sensor webs, geo-temporal visualization, modeling, or some other area. Maybe there could be a call for papers?

No. 2 ? pre-conference, education workshop (23rd of August )

We have a chance to organise pre-conference workshop! 

In Como we talked about two options: a) having workshop for German school teachers on use of FOSS4G (e.g. QGIS) in education, b) having workshop for teacher trainers to show them how they can motivate and attract teachers to open GIS. 

I think these are both good ideas too. 

 

One update on my end. The GeoForAll urban thematic has a grant proposal under review right now. Like all grant proposals -- It's a long shot -- but if funded it would provide funding to support a US GeoForAll scholar to go to Bonn to offer a training workshop at FOSS4G 2016. The topic would be either a 'Research Methods' workshop or a 'Train the Trainer' workshop - probably targeting university researchers and educators. I don't know when we will hear about the funding, but my guess is that it will be in early 2016, and if it comes in, we'll have a call for workshop topics. So I'll let you know if it comes in.

 

I encourage others in our community to go after funds like this that would help fund/support these kinds of educational or research workshops to happen in future FOSS4G global or regional events!

 

Cheers,

Charlie

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