Hello GeoForAll educators,
In our OSGeoLive meeting today it was pointed out the OSGeoLive is being
used within some GeoForAll training courses. This is really exciting for
us as OSGeoLive's value add and mission is very closely aligned with
GeoForAll.
What we have is a proven documentation, translation, and software
development and distribution pipeline.
And GeoForAll has access to passionate and dedicated teachers.
It would be awesome if we could combine the two of these communities and
bring both together. I think that the next step to supercharge such an
alliance is to have a person or a few people, probably from the
education space, step forward and weld these two communities together.
Does this align with the agendas of any of you folk in the education
space? Would there be an opportunity for you to spend time in a
practical outreach role?
Cheers, Cameron
On 28/1/18 1:14 am, Charlie Schweik wrote:
Hi,
Just wanted to say -- these pages in the below email are a really
great start, in my humble opinion. Nice work!
I'd like to circle back to what I was trying to jumpstart when I did
my GeoForAll webinar on Commons-based Peer Production [0]. *What we
need to do is self-identify GeoForAll labs, willing to collaborate on
some educational topic (or research agenda), and start collaborating.*
For example, my colleagues and I at UMass are working on a set of
exercises for an Applications in Unmanned Aerial Systems class for
higher education. As we get initial exercises done, we will plan to
make them available, somehow, under "In your classroom" [1] with
Creative Commons licenses that allow sharing and permit new
derivatives. We're in dialog with Michael Starek and Phil Davis about
this with the goal of collaboration between our two GeoForAll labs.
Version control is still a question.
GeoAcademy uses Github to store their content which is great. I just
worry that for some that might be too technical for some. There are a
number of other options. GitBook [2] is one, Rice U's OpenStax [3], or
even something as simple as shared, read only, Google Drive folders.
I'm going to take this collaboration opportunity to work on this more.
What we want, I believe, is something very simple, with few rules or
standards that be a negative force slowing down collaboration.
In short:
I encourage other Geoforall labs working in education to identify
two-lab collaboration opportunities to develop and share GeoForAll
educational content in some area that _you need for your own
teaching_, and let's try and build a content library moving toward
open access to educational "source" and version control, as a
community. Let's see what new stuff we can have under [1] by the end
of summer 2018!
If anyone takes up this challenge -- let us know!
Cheers,
Charlie
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVCDME7cxUA&t=994s
[1] https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/
<https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/>
[2] https://www.gitbook.com/ <https://www.gitbook.com/>
[3] https://cnx.org/
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:02 AM, Suchith Anand
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear colleague,
We now have a new website for GeoForAll [1] and we are happy to
share the teaching and research resources we have with everyone.
It is work in progress and we will be adding more resources over time.
We are also inviting feedbacks to help us improve.
Please check the resources available at
*For your Teaching*
https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/
<https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/>
*For your Research*
https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-research/
<https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-research/>
*For your class projects*
https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/for-your-class-project/
<https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/for-your-class-project/>
We have democratized GIS so everyone and our future generations
are now owners of these resources. Every one of you are also the
owners of all these software and you have full freedom to use as
you wish for your education needs and also donate it to your
students as you wish without any vendor permissions!
We thank all colleagues for their selfless efforts over many years
which has helped us to make this possible. I will always be
grateful to every one of them.
Best wishes,
Suchith
[1] https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/
<https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/>
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