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From 25.04.2011 to 29.04.2011, the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, (INPE) (Brazil) and the Institut for Geoinformatics (ifgi) (Germany) of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster held a one week workshop in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brasil. This event was organised in the context of the German-Brasilian Year of Science, Technology and Innovation. Researchers of the GI@School initiative of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster got in touch with scientists from Brazil, all of very different professions, to present work, exchange ideas and discuss future cooperation. This workshop was divided into two parts, a scientific meeting to present and discuss ideas and concepts of the use of GI in the educational context and hands-on session, where the GI@School-group presented concepts and software for use in education (more information).
The GeospatialLearning@PrimarySchool initiative was presented during the scientific meeting part by Thomas Bartoschek. Henning Bredel presented his work in software development for OLPC´s XO-Laptop. During this part of the workshop, many interesting topics were presented by the participants; you can find all the presentations here.
The whole week was filled with inspiring discussions, development of new ideas, also for future cooperation and the exchange of ideas. The second part of the workshop was finished by a mapping party to add the area of the INPE to openstreetmap. The results can be seen here.
Some impressions of this week:
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GeospatialLearning@PrimarySchool presented at AGILE 2011
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Today, Thomas Bartoschek presented the current state of our initiative within the GIROST workshop at the AGILE 2011 in Utrecht. The GIROST workshop, hosted by esri, covers the new reality of mixed source deployments of geospatial technology, not only in industry but in GI research and instruction as well.
The work of GL@PS combines software and frameworks, both open source as well as commercial (e.g. within the teaching activities) and was therefore choosen to serve as an example for this workshop.
In the July of 2010, the project was presented on the State of the Map 2010 conference in Girona, Spain. Finally, we could get our hands on the recordings of this session.
To see the video, click here.
To see the slides, click here.
Like in the recent years, we are going to present our project on some conferences. So if you attend one of these conferences and are interested in our project, watch out for our presentations. We will be at:
State of the map 2010, Girona
Agit 2010, Salzburg (Poster Session)
ESRI EDUC 2010, San Diego
GIScience, Zurich
If you are interested in the exact times and dates of our presentations, drop us a comment and we will get back at you.
From May 12-14 I was participating in the AGILE 2010 conference in Guimaraes, Portugal, where I presented the project.
It was a nice experience again, the audiance size was around 30 and I had some interesting talks and a very positive feedback afterwards. Especially some portuguese participants from ISEGI were interested in the project, as they already have an GIS integration program in secondary school education (conTIG) and were thinking about putting it one level down to primary school. If you are interested in the paper or the presentation, just contact us.
