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

Mon Nov 20 05:41:30 PST 2017

Hi Suchith, Nikos, all:

@Suchith: Thanks for your enthusiasm and energy! You are hard to keep up
with! :-)
@Nikos: Great!

@All: I've created an OSGeo wiki page to allow us as a community to
identify a few labs willing to work collaboratively to develop
FOSS4G-relevant educational content. We're trying to understand what
courses various labs might be teaching in 2018, with the idea of having 2
labs working collaboratively on developing shared, open access educational
content.

*If you are designing a class for next year, please add a row to this wiki
table*:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Labs_Edu_Collaborations
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Labs_Edu_Collaborations>

Please add your row underneath others with a similar topic.

Thank you!

Charlie Schweik

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:49 AM, <labrinos at eled.auth.gr> wrote:

>
>
> 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
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> Faculty of Education
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