[Ica-osgeo-labs] School education BOF#2 - Inputs needed

Thu Sep 3 06:21:23 PDT 2015

Dear Sergio,
I have uploaded my comments and your answer on the Discussion of the Geo4All Teacher Training School Education (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation) almost a month ago.
It is true that there was no feedback and you are right saying that we have to make this discussion more alive. 
I think that we need new ideas. Ideas which might inspire people and make them join this theme.
>From your comments I see that you are most interested in secondary education, like Ela does. This is very encouraging because I am interested in primary education. This way we all can cover every level of education.
A good start might be to ask the teachers what they want from us. What do they expect from G4A. Maybe we should form a questionnaire addressed to the teachers of any level. 

Regards
Nikos

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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
Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
                    http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/
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-----Original Message-----
From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 3:38 PM
To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] School education BOF#2 - Inputs needed

Hi all. I didn't have any answer to this mail nor any more comments in this thread, maybe because in the North hemisphere most of you are or were on vacations. But maybe this topic (School education) is losing interest to the Community and I wouldn't like this to happen. Is there anyone interested in keeping this topic alive?
Thank you,

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY

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De: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Enviado: miércoles, 05 de agosto de 2015 11:47
Para: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] School education BOF#2 - Inputs needed

Hi all and sorry for the delay in answering this mail. I had doubts about where to send this answer: to the geoforall global list (this one) or to the Teacher Training & School Education thematic one (I'm not sure how active this list actually is).
Thank you Nikos for your ideas, very inspiring. My 2 cents:
 - in my humble experience I had learned that we need to focus on teachers, and that it is not an easy task to motivate them. We don't need to worry much about students: they'll probably go faster than teachers and this fact may put teachers in an uncomfortable situation
 - in the Batoví project our first intention was to work with Primary and Secondary simultaneously. The experience -here- showed that was better to work first with Secondary until we have a tool specially customized for working with school teachers (and students). At gvSIG they are now in this job and we'll hopefully have a new version soon. Anyone in the network that would like to learn more about it or would like to contribute please tell me and I'll let them know
 - if Ela needs any help for updating the wikipage of the Teacher Training & School Education thematic group just let me know
 - I agree with Nikos idea that each Lab should make a webpage and to have a Central webpage which will share the news (etc.) to all Labs and each Lab has its own webpage, in the local language, for the teachers and students. Although it's not easy, it's a very good idea
 - regarding connections with existing education networks I can try to connect with OLPCs and other similar networks
 - in regards to Phil's idea of organizing a teacher training workshop during an event near you for teachers & educators from local schools and universities we have already been doing this and we'll continue doing it. By the way we are organizing a training activity with a High School that will have a special event during September 10th (with special media coverage). It will be great to have an online exchange with any -preferably-  Spanish speaking member of the group in order to present the initiative. So if anyone in the network would like to join just tell me (it will be between 10 and 13 local time, -3 UTC)
 - the idea of a competition is great; we already tried to implement one here but we still haven't done it.
That's all for the moment, thanks.
Best wishes to all,

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY

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De: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Enviado: jueves, 23 de julio de 2015 16:27
Para: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: [Ica-osgeo-labs] School education BOF#2 - Inputs needed

Colleagues,

Nikos has kindly send me his ideas/comments (see attached pdf) on the BoF discussions on Teacher Training and School education which i would like to share with the Geo4All community, so we can discuss ideas and plan actions to take this forward. Please do send your ideas/inputs on this. Thanks.

Suchith

-----Original Message-----
From: Νίκος Λαμπρινός [mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 4:34 PM
To: 'Suchith Anand'
Cc: 'labrinos at eled.auth.gr'
Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [geoforall-ab] School education BOF#2 notes

Dear Suchith,

I send you my thoughts in a file because I had many things to say.
I would like to have your comments (bad or good). You can share it with the rest of the members if you think it worth it.

Regards
Nikos

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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
Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
                    http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/
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-----Original Message-----
From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:57 PM
To: geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [geoforall-ab] School education BOF#2 notes

Great work Sergio. The idea of linking the National Teachers Institute is fantastic.

We will also plan GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award  in school category [1] from next year.

Suchith

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_BOF2
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From: geoforall-ab-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [geoforall-ab-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:54 PM
To: Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska; geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [geoforall-ab] School education BOF#2 notes

The link to the post is wrong; the right one is this one: https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/taller-sobre-gvsig-batovi-para-profesores-en-el-liceo-no54-del-prado-montevideo/

Sergio Acosta y Lara

Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY ________________________________
De: geoforall-ab-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <geoforall-ab-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy>
Enviado: miércoles, 22 de julio de 2015 9:35
Para: Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska; geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: Re: [geoforall-ab] School education BOF#2 notes

Oh, I didn't see Suchith's mail (ups... ). I'm sorry about not being able to attend the meeting. Great ideas indeed. Regarding Phil's idea -as I told you before- here we had already begun organizing these kind of workshops although we hadn't have any event as an excuse (I had written a post and attached documentation of one of it at <https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/taller-sobre-gvsig-batovi-para-profesores-en-el-liceo-no54-del-prado-montevideo/> https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/taller-sobre-gvsig-batovi-para-profesores-en-el-liceo-no54-del-prado-montevideo/). We are now in the middle of another one for students for teaching Geography (at the National Teachers Institute http://ipa.cfe.edu.uy/; that means they are going to be teachers of Geography for all of the country's High Schools -public and private-). Let's hope Geoforall spirit begun spreading throughout the country (and beyond...)

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY ________________________________
De: geoforall-ab-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <geoforall-ab-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy>
Enviado: miércoles, 22 de julio de 2015 9:00
Para: Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska; geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: Re: [geoforall-ab] School education BOF#2 notes

Hi Ela. Was there anything attached?  I'm looking forward to taking a look at those notes :-)

Cheers,

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY ________________________________
De: geoforall-ab-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <geoforall-ab-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska <ela at gridw.pl>
Enviado: martes, 21 de julio de 2015 21:25
Para: geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: [geoforall-ab] School education BOF#2 notes

Dear colleagues,

I've just put online notes from our BOF#2 in Como where we discussed GeoForAll and primary, secondary and high schools.

Thanks to all participants for great brainstorming! :-)

Ela
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Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
Head of Education Unit
Deputy Country Coordinator of GLOBE Program UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre Sobieszynska 8, 00-764 Warsaw
phone.: +48 22 840 6664 ext. 116
fax: +48 22 851 6201
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