[Geo4All] Vision for an OSGeo education program -- and planning for FOSS4G Global in Boston, August 2017
Charlie Schweik
cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
Sun Oct 30 04:52:30 PDT 2016
Hi all,
Can we start a thread on planning GeoForAll meeting(s) co-located at FOSS4G
Boston? Has anyone considered offering some kind of GeoForAll-related
educational workshop? If so, what subject? Can we plan another
"Grant-sprint" like we did in FOSS4G Europe in Como? Does anyone have any
grants they are looking to go after, that we could work together on? Or
should we set aside a day before or after the conference to work on the all
ellusive collaborative system for sharing educational content?
I've created a GeoForAll planning wiki page for this upcoming conference.
Add your names and ideas on what we do there at:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll/FOSS4GBoston
Cheers,
Charlie
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Bridget Fleming <bridget at afrispatial.co.za>
wrote:
> To add my bit from South Africa. Online GIS software is not a solution as
> internet access for us is expensive and most of our schools do not have
> connectivity. I’ve written a short paper on my GIS experiences in our local
> Journal for SA Geography Teachers: http://sagta.org.za/JoGESA-V2.php
>
> QGIS ‘power lessons’ work best where GIS practioners come in and give
> short courses directly to the students. Even the most IT-savvy teachers are
> too fearful to give GIS classes. We have started a GIS Olympiad which is
> being rolled out nationally. My colleague will be presenting a paper at the
> upcoming AAG conference in Boston and I’ll do similar at the FOSS4G
> conference, also in Boston in August next year. I’m looking forward to
> meeting like-minded geographers in education as we need to pool our ideas.
> Gavin Fleming, my long-suffering husband has helped build a tangible
> landscape using GRASS GIS. My kids/ grade 8 to 12 love it. GIS has taken
> geography to another level. Keeping it simple works and Open Source does
> the trick!
>
> Kind regards
> Bridget Fleming
>
> On 2016/10/29, 8:58 AM, "GeoForAll on behalf of Suchith Anand" <
> geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Yes, we are making use of all opportunities to promote GeoForAll ideas
> and i don't think any properitery vendor can stop GeoMentors from
> promoting GeoForAll ideas on the sidelines :-) or stopping students from
> using GIS Day to promote GeoForAll [even though that was not at all the
> properitery vendor's original intention].
>
> So we welcome all efforts from everyone in prompting geoeducation
> opportunities for all :-)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of
> Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
> Sent: 29 October 2016 7:15 AM
> To: Nikos Lambrinos
> Cc: OsGeo, GeoForAll
> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Vision for an OSGeo education program
>
> Thanks Nicos for the arguments you put in the table.
> A provocative question... Why a teacher using a web application to
> teach and produce a map should care if the server use open source or not?
>
> More, esri pushing geospatial need and industry is working also for us
> ;-)
>
> Maxi
>
> Il 29 ott 2016 12:28 AM, <labrinos at eled.auth.gr<mailto:
> labrinos at eled.auth.gr>> ha scritto:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I follow your emails these days and I can see two things: a)
> enthusiasm and b) anger.
> The first is good the second is bad. Both are reasonable. They are
> generated from a kind of an undeclared war between proprietary and FOS
> Software.
> I have the feeling that many of us feel ready to declare war against
> proprietary software but ... don't do it. We need it. Propriery software
> makes us priceless. We do need something to compare with.
> Someone wrote that ESRI has a lot of people working on GIS and
> education. So do we.
> The problem lies on how we are organized. ESRI looks better organized
> than we are. They are focused and they know where to strike first and how.
> We don't.
> Take a look at the emails. Each one is talking either about middle or
> high school and (in my turn) I would talk about primary school. Each level
> has its own needs.
> What do we want from the teachers and from their students? It isn't
> enough to show them how to use GIS. We have to convince them that they need
> GIS. This is what ESRI is doing. In order to do so we have to show them a
> very simple way to use it. ESRI gives free licenses, we give free software.
> So, we give more.
> Teachers and especially students love to show the results of their
> work. If they have to take many courses and 10s of teaching hours (no
> matter if it is webinars or f2f courses) then many of them may get
> disappointed or consider GIS difficult to begin with. Because they don't
> get quick results (for example a newly constructed map).
> In my opinion, we have to begin building a real global network with
> schools of any level of education. This is something I had proposed few
> months ago but I got almost no answer. We can do that the same way that
> GeoForAll was built. With patience and vision.
> I am almost 23 years talking about GIS in school teachers (starting
> back in 1994) and I think that the difference was made since the beginning
> of web mapping. This is because they can see their efforts go public.
> Everyone loves publicity. It will be easier to go from the very simple
> keystrokes of web mapping to more complicated procedures (teachers don't
> like much georeferrencing systems etc) of GIS.
> Who thinks that we can start with these two thngs? a) forming a well
> organized global school network and b) web mapping as a starter?
> We have to have system and patience.
>
> Best wishes
> Nikos
>
>
>
>
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