Re: [HOT] Mapping with Kids

[Tyler Radford]

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.

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On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Paul Stewart 
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"  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"  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 
>>>
>>> 2017-07-01 10:00 GMT+02:00 Felix Delattre :
>>>
 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 
> 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

[HOT] "Mapathon" method for a different kind of mapping party - fighting Alzheimer's

[Egle Marija Ramanauskaite]

Dear all,

You may already know our work with the Crowd2Map Tanzania
 project, but I'd like to share an
invitation to contribute to a different kind of mapping effort this time.
Just as world-changing, even if not about humanitarian mapping per se! :)

EyesOnALZ  is another initiative of the Human
Computation Institute, which is a collaborator of the Crowd2Map project.
EyesOnALZ aims to map the brain in Alzheimer's disease! The project and our
online game - Stall Catchers  - have
actually been featured together with OpenStreetMap in the fantastic The
Crowd & The Cloud  documentary series  (in the
first episode ).

Since I am passionately involved in both projects, it was just a matter of
time before I took the best from one and applied it to the other ..:)
therefore we're running our first Stall Catchers *"catchathon" this month,
22nd July!* (drawing *inspiration directly from mapathons of course*).

Stall Catchers is a citizen science game crowdsourcing groundbreaking
Alzheimer's research at Cornell University. We're searching the brain of
mice for stalls - blocked blood vessels that could be likely culprits of
Alzheimer's disease. However, even though the initial findings are
promising and could lead to the first Alzheimer's treatment, due to the
amount of data to be analyzed, the researchers cannot do it without our
help!

The goal of the *Stall Catchers catchathon is to increase international
participation & empower everyone across the world to fight a disease that
is affecting them, their loved ones and the society as a whole.*

If that seems like a worthy goal to you, we would *invite you to hold a
catchathon in your city, July 22, 16:00 UTC* (check your local time here
).
*The pizza is on us!* (Just send us your estimated budget in advance.) The
event will last for 2 hrs and be synchronized with the other locations
across the world. The Crowd & The Cloud series crew will also stream the
event via a live hangout, at the end of which we will announce the winning
teams. But the grand goal is crunching as much Stall Catchers data as
possible of course !!

Please get in touch with me directly if you'd like to run a catchathon in
your city! We will provide all the necessary materials and guidance :)
plus, the game is easy enough to grasp, and you don't yourself have to be
an experienced player to run it! In fact, most locations will be first time
players.

*Help us map the brain & cure Alzheimer's disease!*

Best,
Egle
Citizen Science Coordinator at the Human Computation Institute


-- 
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Citizen Science Coordinator & PIO at Human Computation Institute

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[HOT] HOT Board Meeting Minutes - July 2017

[Melanie Eckle]

Dear HOT Community,

I am pleased to hereby send you the link our last board meeting, July 6th
2017:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-9jaFNM56M5ay1FNERfN2tVMjA/view?usp=sharing

Please don`t hesitate to contact me in case you have questions, remarks or
comments.

As before, all previous meeting minutes of the board can be found in the
following Wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Mee
tings#Meetings_of_the_Board_of_Directors

and the HOT Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1EorbpNCZ03fml2OURJ
Z21mU2I4Qm9aQlRSbHpFNHNfVkdnZGlJU3ZFcjBsZEZab2hGOWc

Kind regards,
Melanie
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