[Live-demo] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Looking for Web-GIS syllabi

Tue Jun 2 09:23:23 PDT 2015

Thanks, Jeremy!

It does appear that flash drives are replacing disks for many uses, in particular they allow local writing of maps and transformed data. With a DVD there needs to be writable storage available, ideally on the network so it can be accessed from any computer. We will be lacking that for our course so this may be the best approach.

Have you tried setting up the flash drives to be bootable, to avoid the need for a VM?

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/bootusbflash.htm

Also, are you encouraging the students to back up their flash drives in some way?

— Andy

On Jun 2, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Jeremy Morley <Jeremy.Morley at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Jeremy.Morley at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

I have training material that is based on OSGeo Live running as a Virtual Box VM. The material is designed to run from a 16GB or preferably a 32GB memory stick using VirtualBox installed on the local machine. The practicals use a pack of UK Open Data so can be redistributed. This scheme is the result of a lot of iteration. It now runs pretty smoothly, is fairly easy to set up, and using memory sticks means the students can take away a "GIS system on a stick" at the end of classes. Typically on 1-2 students of 15-20 a year have claimed the deposit back rather than keep the stick. The data pack could go on the web to be downloaded. The practical class material ATM is 4 PDFs (originated from Word docs)

I'm seeing Charlie on Friday and can discuss handing this on then. There's also a series of lectures to go with the practicals which use PPT slides.

Jeremy

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On 28 May 2015, at 09:41, Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>> wrote:

Hi Cameron, all:

We'll ponder this as well. I'm copying my collaborators.

Charlie

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com<mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Jorge, others,
One thing which would be very valuable would be to align development of GIS training material with the OSGeo-Live build process. Probably incorporate training material in the documentation at:
http://live.osgeo.org<http://live.osgeo.org/>

This could be collaboratively developed and continually updated by both project teams, training institutes, and our existing teams of translators.

Jorge, it looks like you have a good start on this. I'd be interested to see how we could link with OSGeo-Live.

Warm Regards, Cameron

On 27/05/2015 7:01 am, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
Hi Charlie, hi Andy,

Last year I've started (but not finished) a web gis course, based on OSGeo Live.

My goal was to create a course that could be translated to different languages, and always using local data.

I've created http://mapmaking.info/ to setup the course. I've just created contents for chinese students, using chinese data (but I didn't had time to write it in mandarim, so it is still in english). Now I'm translating the course to portuguese, using data from Portugal.

My suggestion is to use administrative data for some global source like:
* http://www.gadm.org/
* http://gdem.ersdac.jspacesystems.or.jp/
* OSM planet extracts

Every student would use the same technologies, the same algoritms, but using data that has some meaning for them. Those interested in teaching the course to a new community would have to translate the contents and to provide the equivalent datasets related with the community.

We already have tons of open source software available in different languagues and amazing data from all around the globe. It is time to create powerful contens "Think globally" adapted to local learning communities "act locally".

As a minor note, whenever possible, we should align our syllabus with the BoK, despite web gis being the weakest BoK topic.

Regards,

Jorge Gustavo

On 26-05-2015 17<tel:26-05-2015%2017>:37, Charles Schweik wrote:
Hello GeoForAll colleagues,

Some colleague and I just received some funding to develop a new Web-GIS
course for Spring 2016, and this week we are working on a rough draft
syllabus as a requirement from the funder. We're in negotiation with the
funder on intellectual property rights, but we are confident that we
will be able to license the course open access under some Creative
Commons license. I also want to try and use this effort as a step
forward in our quest to build the content system and a 'new derivative
work' system.

My request:
*
*
*If you have taught a Web-GIS class in the last few years and are
willing to share your syllabus with us*, or if you have relevant
materials you are willing to share, please let me know (and copy my
developer colleague, Andy Anderson, cc'd above). If we use anything,
we'd of course give you attribution!

Thanks in advance!

Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

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