[Ica-osgeo-labs] ODP: Re: Education at FOSS4G 2016
Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
ela at gridw.pl
Fri Oct 30 05:03:35 PDT 2015
Hi Till,
Thanks a lot for your effort. I'm in touch with my colleagues from the University of Cologne. They can also help us as they closely cooperate with German teachers and pre-service teachers.
Viele Grüße,
Ela
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---- Użytkownik till.adams at fossgis.de napisał ----
>Hi Ela,
>
>thanks for the progress! I am in contact to several school teachers
>around Bonn, so I just may ask them, how advanced training for teachers
>in general work and where their channels of distribution are.
>
>So far , Till
>
>
>Am 2015-10-29 12:41, schrieb Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska:
>> 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 [19]).
>>
>> 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 [17]> 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 [1]
>>>>
>>>> Ιστοσελίδες:
>>>> http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/ [2]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr [3]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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 [4]
>>>>
>>>> Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/ [5]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ [6]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FROM: ica-osgeo-labs
>>>> [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [7]] ON BEHALF OF
>>>> Antoni Perez Navarro
>>>> SENT: Monday, October 26, 2015 11:44 AM
>>>> TO: ela at gridw.pl [8]; cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu [9]
>>>> CC: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org [10]
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> aperezn at uoc.edu [11]
>>>> 22@ (Rambla Poblenou, 156 / 08018 Barcelona)
>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro [12]
>>>> @tonipereznavarr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>> <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu [13]> per a "El¿bieta
>>>> Wo¿oszy¿ska-Wi¿niewska" <ela at gridw.pl [14]> amb còpia a
>>>> ica-osgeo-labs <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org [15]> 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
>>>> <ela at gridw.pl [16]> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> Q: Why do I try to keep my emails to five sentences or less?
>>> A: http://five.sentenc.es [18]
>>
>>
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr
>> [2] http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
>> [3] http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr
>> [4] mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr
>> [5] http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
>> [6] http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/
>> [7] mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [8] mailto:ela at gridw.pl
>> [9] mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
>> [10] mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>> [11] mailto:aperezn at uoc.edu
>> [12] https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
>> [13] mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
>> [14] mailto:ela at gridw.pl
>> [15] mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>> [16] mailto:ela at gridw.pl
>> [17] mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr
>> [18] http://five.sentenc.es
>> [19] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Education
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