[Ica-osgeo-labs] Education at FOSS4G 2016

Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska ela at gridw.pl
Thu Oct 29 06:33:07 PDT 2015


Thanks Jeff! I will remember about that :-)
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W dniu 2015-10-29 o 13:56, Jeff McKenna pisze:
> Hi Ela,
>
> Thanks for recording this on the wiki; but be careful, always be sure 
> to include an appropriate wiki "category" at the bottom of your page, 
> so that your wiki page can be found (years from now). Scroll to the 
> bottom of your page now, you can see that I added "Category: 
> FOSS4G2016" to it.  Click on that link 
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:FOSS4G2016), and your page is 
> listed with all of the other pages for that event, cool eh?  Just be 
> sure to always include a category for any page you create (copy/paste 
> that text to the bottom of every page you create). thanks! :)
>
> And I notice that a "GeoForAll" category already exists too, great 
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:GeoForAll).  You can list 
> multiple categories for the same page (just look around the wiki for 
> examples, copy/paste their text).
>
> Merci!
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-10-29 8:41 AM, Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for joining a discussion, providing feedback and comments,
>> asking additional questions. I set up the wikipage to gather all
>> information concerning education at FOSS4G 2016
>> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Education).
>>
>> Summing up...
>> Conference - we agree on having education included into general track.
>> Great! Work in progress... :-)
>> Workshop - we have quite a lot of people open for the idea of
>> educational workshop at FOSS4G 2016. However, there are some important
>> issues which need to be discussed.
>>
>> First of all (Nikos is 100% right) - was is/are our target group(s)?
>> Looking at the different background of ICA-OsGeo Labs we have at least 5
>> different groups:
>> 1) academics working with students over 19 at the universities,
>> 2) school teachers, working with children aged 6-12/14 (primary
>> education) - in different countries  we have different educational
>> system so also different age groups
>> 3) school teachers, working with young people aged 12/14-19 (secondary
>> education) - in different countries  we have different educational
>> system so also different age groups
>> 4) teacher trainers, so educators responsible for improving pre-service
>> and/or in-service school teachers skills and knowledge,
>> 5) GI educators responsible for improving GIS skills and knowledge of
>> very different groups of users (specialists, scientists, public
>> administration staff, etc.)
>>
>> Well... We can of course make not 1 workshop but 2 or more (if room is
>> still available) but what's crucial - how to get participants for the
>> training? Moreover, how to get participants for only one-day training?
>>
>> In my opinion, we would have no problems to get people from group no 1.
>> and no. 5 - they will be in Bonn :-)
>> But, as far as group no. 2, 3 and 4 are concerned, it will be much
>> harder.  School teachers can be financially supported by their schools
>> but for 1-day training that can be not so easy.
>> If we want this group to come - how can we support them? First of all,
>> get money to cover their travel expenses. That's the most important. I
>> know quite a lot of teachers from Belgium for example who would be
>> interested to come, if they get this kind of support. Any ideas on how
>> to do it (except for Till's proposal to ask OsGeo for help)?
>>
>> So dear ICA-OsGeo Lab members, to make a general discussion more
>> concrete - please declare your *ideas on specific training* that *you
>> *would like to lead on FOSS4G 2016 using above mentioned Wikipage. That
>> would help a lot!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ela***
>>
>> *
>> W dniu 2015-10-26 o 13:15, Charlie Schweik pisze:
>>> Sorry - my bad, Nikos. I am considering all levels but brought in the
>>> university here.
>>> I think we should have both areas!
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:36 AM, <labrinos at eled.auth.gr
>>> <mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     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
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     Νίκος Λαμπρινός
>>>
>>>     Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής
>>>
>>>     Π.Τ.Δ.Ε. Α.Π.Θ.
>>>
>>>     Θεσσαλονίκη 541 24
>>>
>>>     Τηλ. 2310 991201, 991230
>>>
>>>     Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr <mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr>
>>>
>>>     Ιστοσελίδες: _http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/_
>>>
>>> _<http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr>http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr_
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     Dr. Nikos Lambrinos
>>>
>>>     Associate Professor
>>>
>>>     Dept. of Primary Education
>>>
>>>     Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
>>>
>>>     Greece, GR-54124
>>>
>>>     Tel. +30 2310 991201
>>>
>>>     Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr <mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr>
>>>
>>>     Web pages: _http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/_
>>>
>>>     _http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/_
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     *From:*ica-osgeo-labs
>>>     [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>>     <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 <mailto:ela at gridw.pl>;
>>>     cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu <mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
>>>     *Cc:* ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>>>     <mailto: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*
>>>
>>>     <mailto:aperezn at uoc.edu>aperezn at uoc.edu
>>>     22@ (Rambla Poblenou, 156 / 08018 Barcelona)
>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro>https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
>>>     @tonipereznavarr
>>>
>>>
>>>     Η εικόνα καταργήθηκε από τον αποστολέα. Universitat Oberta de
>>>     Catalunya
>>>
>>>     Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament a qui va destinat i pot
>>>     contenir informació privilegiada o confidencial i dades de
>>>     caràcter personal, la difusió de les quals és regulada per la Llei
>>>     orgànica de protecció de dades i la Llei de serveis de la societat
>>>     de la informació. Si no sou la persona destinatària indicada (o la
>>>     responsable de lliurar-lo a qui va destinat), no heu de copiar
>>>     aquest missatge ni lliurar-lo a tercers per cap concepte. Si heu
>>>     rebut aquest missatge per error o l'heu aconseguit per altres
>>>     mitjans, us demanem que ens ho comuniqueu immediatament per
>>>     aquesta mateixa via i l'elimineu irreversiblement.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge electrònic penseu en el medi 
>>> ambient.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     --- Missatge original de Charles Schweik
>>> <<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> per
>>>     a "El¿bieta Wo¿oszy¿ska-Wi¿niewska"
>>>     <<mailto:ela at gridw.pl>ela at gridw.pl> amb còpia a ica-osgeo-labs
>>>     <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>>>     <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>> enviat el 25.10.2015 13:33
>>>
>>>     Hi Ela,
>>>
>>>     See my thoughts below in-line:
>>>
>>>     On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:32 PM, El?bieta Wo?oszy?ska-Wi?niewska
>>>     <<mailto:ela at gridw.pl>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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>>> A: http://five.sentenc.es
>>>
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