[Geo4All] Volunteers needed for GeoForAll collaborative educational materials development ideas

[labrinos at eled.auth.gr]

Dear Suchith, dear all,

The last 20 years I have been working on digital cartography in order  
to build new approaches in school geography teaching. Having in mind  
mainly the needs of primary school teachers I have built numerous  
maps, working with proprietary software those days and helping improve  
others like the Greek new school wall maps for primary and secondary  
schools in Greece. These maps have been awarded the Gold Metal not  
only for their construction but for their pedagogical view as well  
from the International Cartographic Association, 24th International  
Conference, Santiago, Chile, November, 16-21, in 2009.
I will be glad to offer my experience in forming the new standards for  
teaching digital geography. My Lab is small but my students will be  
glad to help.

best regards
Nikos Lambrinos


Παραθέτοντας από Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>:

> Dear All,
>
> We now have over 100 OSGeo labs and it is a great time to think  
> innovative ideas for expanding research and teaching collaborations  
> between our labs. Charlie Schweik gave an excellent webinar on "Can  
> we develop collaborative educational and  research ?"  with so many  
> ideas for rapidly expanding joint collaborations between our labs.  
> If you couldn’t attend the webinar the recording is at  
> https://youtu.be/dVCDME7cxUA
>
>
> I am really hoping we follow up some ideas from this. The work that  
> Charlie  and Boston LOC did setting up the scholarworks is a big  
> contribution to  our whole community and all future FOSS4G LOCs.  
> Charlie has put forward an excellent bigger aim for  having a system  
> in place to collaboratively develop  "GeoForAll Education Book" for  
> different levels building upon  the  scholarworks system from FOSS4G  
>  Boston .  I can see the benefit of this for the wider community. I  
> volunteer myself to also help  on the GeoForAll Book idea (though I  
> don’t have technical skills, I can volunteer for writing articles,  
> editing etc as needed) , so we keep building upon this.
>
> But to make all these happen, we need team efforts. Charlie or  
> myself won’t be able to do this but if we get volunteers from  
> atleast 2 labs interested in working collaboratively, then we can  
> move ahead. There is   option to request for OSGeo Board funding   
> but ideally I would like to see if we can get volunteers willing to  
> help with this.  If there are no  volunteers, then we can request a  
> small  budget for this (1000 USD) and put in an open call.
>
> If we can get some volunteers who want to work together on  
> educational content, and be willing to do this because they are  
> already doing this  as part of their jobs, it will be  ideal  . The  
> volunteers need to  investigate platforms and come up with a  
> suggested system and suggested content structure standards, and to  
> support 2-4 collaborative education projects between 2 or more labs.  
> Then we would also issue the call for 2-lab educational  
> collaboration proposals.  Can I request any volunteers interested to  
> help in this to let me know . Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
>
>
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Dr. Nikos Lambrinos
Professor of Geography Teaching
Director of Digital Analysis and Educational Design Laboratory
President of the Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence
Faculty of Education
School of Primary Education
Dept. of Science and New Technologies
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Tel: +30 2310 991201
Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr
Web Page:     http://users.auth.gr/labrinos/
	      http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/
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