Archive for Juli 2010
In addition to the already mentioned presentations on various conferences, we also presented our activity and ideas at the State of the Map 2010, which was taking place from the July 9th 11th, 2010 in Girona, Spain. (weiterlesen…)
We presented our project on the GI-Forum Poster Exibition at this years AGIT Conference. We brought one of the XOs with the GeoActivity to Salzburg for a demo for interested audience. Here’s the poster (weiterlesen…)
On July 11th we presented the GeoActivity at this years ESRI Education User Conference taking place in San Diego, CA. The talk was scheduled in the Research session on spatial thinking. After the presentation we prepared a demo on the Hilton Hotel terrace (to have GPS connection) for the interested audience. Most of the peolpe have not seen the XO before, only heard about the project. Some interesting contacts and collaboration opportunities came up. For example with the GLOBE Program by NASA.
As Thomas and I stayed in Rwanda for two weeks, to test the Geo activity and the student’s spatial abilities (see spatial ability tests, geocaching, geotagging, collaboration and summarized outcomes), we are interested in how OLPC is going on in Rwanda.
Last year, (weiterlesen…)
