Hi all, I loved this thread. I am going to be presenting next week at The Global Alliance for Children's #ChildrenCount event and may display some of your photos. Will share back.
*Tyler Radford* Executive Director tyler.radf...@hotosm.org @TylerSRadford *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://donate.hotosm.org/> *Join us at the 2017 HOT Summit! <http://summit.hotosm.org> | 14-15 September | Ottawa* On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Paul Stewart <pjstewart1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Heather, > > A couple of us at MSF-UK are currently holding discussions with a handful > of London schools about holding regular mapathons for 15-16 year olds. We > are planning to pair-up small groups of students with Missing Maps Mapping > Mentors - voluntary positions we will soon advertise. We will also be > putting together some humanitarian GIS exercises for students with GIS in > their curriculum. > > I will keep you updated. > > Best, > > Paul > MSF-UK > > On 2 Jul 2017 15:56, "Heather Leson" <heatherle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Amazing. Maybe we can write up a blog post for HOT on this together. >> >> Will connect offlist >> >> Heather >> >> On 2 Jul 2017 16:14, "Marco Minghini" <marco.minghin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear Heather and all, >>> as Cristiano said, over the last few years we have organized at >>> Politecnico di Milano what we called "mini-mapathons" in primary schools >>> around Como and Milan (Italy) with 9 and 10 year-old children. For those >>> interested, here you can find a paper about the educational value of the >>> experience (it contains an analysis based on a questionnaire filled by the >>> children after the event): >>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6BKomTX0AsKMnByQjhDZGFsYkk >>> I am strongly interested in this topic so I'm happy to further chat >>> about this. >>> All the best, >>> >>> Marco >>> >>> Marco Minghini, Ph.D. >>> GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA >>> Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy) >>> +39 02 23996409 <+39%2002%202399%206409> >>> marco.mingh...@polimi.it >>> @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini> >>> >>> 2017-07-01 10:00 GMT+02:00 Felix Delattre <felix.delat...@hotosm.org>: >>> >>>> Hi Heather and dear HOT community, >>>> >>>> Great to learn about your projects! I would like to be in contact about >>>> this topic. >>>> >>>> A couple of years ago, we have been conducting mapping workshops with >>>> children (4th and 9th grade) and college students on Nicaragua's Caribbean >>>> Coast: >>>> >>>> Here are a couple of articles (in English): >>>> >>>> * http://en.unicef.org.ni/prensa/140/ >>>> * http://en.unicef.org.ni/prensa/141 >>>> >>>> Here you can find the publication of the community effort and the >>>> methodology we elaborated: >>>> >>>> http://en.unicef.org.ni/publicacion/96/geotechnology-tool-innovation/ >>>> (download link for the pdf at the bottom) >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Felix >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On July 1, 2017 1:50:25 AM GMT+02:00, Cristiano Giovando < >>>> cristiano.giova...@hotosm.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Heather and all, >>>>> >>>>> Marco from Politecnico di Milano has been organizing similar events >>>>> with even younger kids (fifth-graders!) and the results were impressive. >>>>> I'm sure he'd be happy to share his opinions and experience. >>>>> >>>>> Some links: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swazi >>>>> land_for_malaria_elimination >>>>> http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/ (scroll down to the May 5th 2016 >>>>> webinar) >>>>> >>>>> Happy mapping! >>>>> >>>>> Cristiano >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Steven Johnson <sejohns...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Heather & list, >>>>>> tl;dr; - Let's chat. >>>>>> >>>>>> Since the beginning of the year, TeachOSM has been collaborating with >>>>>> the American Geographical Society[1] to host a series of online workshops >>>>>> for high school (but also college) instructors. The workshops are >>>>>> designed >>>>>> to augment basic mapping training by helping teachers take the next step >>>>>> of >>>>>> integrating open mapping to their curricula., The workshops also act >>>>>> as an ongoing support service and forum for project development. >>>>>> >>>>>> As part of this collaboration, we're pulling together a 4-part Open >>>>>> Mapping Summer Camp for teachers. It has not been announced yet as >>>>>> details >>>>>> are still pending. But our plan is to introduce and test the modules in >>>>>> the >>>>>> TeachOSM for High School curriculum[2]. The curriculum is designed to >>>>>> compliment the AP Human Geography curriculum.[3] >>>>>> >>>>>> That's the gist of it. Happy to chat with any and all. Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> SEJ >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] http://americangeo.org >>>>>> [2] https://github.com/shawnmgoulet/teachosm-for-high-school >>>>>> [3] https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-human-geography >>>>>> >>>>>> -- SEJ >>>>>> -- twitter: @geomantic >>>>>> -- skype: sejohnson8 >>>>>> >>>>>> Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans! - Empedocles, >>>>>> *Fragments, >>>>>> 141.* >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Heather Leson < >>>>>> heatherle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Dear colleagues, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Many of you have teaching experience and have shared curriculum on >>>>>>> TeachOSM. I'd be keen to talk with anyone who has does mapping workshops >>>>>>> with high school students. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This week I held a session with Ecole Internationale Geneva focused >>>>>>> on Missing Maps techniques. The session plan is listed in the blog post. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/2017/06/29/data-ifrc-maps-kids-hu >>>>>>> manitarian-outreach-16/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Heather >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Heather Leson >>>>>>> heatherle...@gmail.com >>>>>>> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson >>>>>>> Blog: textontechs.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> HOT mailing list >>>>>>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>>>>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> HOT mailing list >>>>>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>>>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Cristiano Giovando >>>>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >>>>> cristiano.giova...@hotosm.org >>>>> http://www.hotosm.org >>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>> Join us at the HOT Summit! >>>>> 14-15 September, Ottawa >>>>> http://summit.hotosm.org >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sent from my phone; if there are typos I will still be quite annoyed >>>> at myself. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>> >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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