Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM
I'm starting as a maths teacher next year and will certainly be mentioning it to the geography teachers in passing ;). The hard bit will be relating it to the syllabus so it's not a waste of time. Obviously it would be an excellent exercise for geography students to do, but unless the syllabus allows for first hand cartography a teacher would really need to twist some arms to justify using class time for it. If anybody's got ideas on how to incorporate it into a maths lesson I'm all ears too. Brent - Original Message - From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009 2:46 pm Subject: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org, t...@openstreetmap.org Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote OSM, geography students. I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little cartography :) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: I'm starting as a maths teacher next year and will certainly be mentioning it to the geography teachers in passing ;). The hard bit will be relating it to the syllabus so it's not a waste of time. Obviously it would be an excellent exercise for geography students to do, but unless the syllabus allows for first hand cartography a teacher would really need to twist some arms to justify using class time for it. If anybody's got ideas on how to incorporate it into a maths lesson I'm all ears too. I'll paste below a reply I received because I cross posted to the main talk list at the same time, along with my reply. --- On Thu, 9/7/09, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote: Back when I was at School, If I could have done a GCSE or A-Level in Cartography I would have done. Its a much under taught subject. It either needs to be taught as a Subject in its own right or as Part of Technical Drawing, Its not that it can't be included as part of Geography its just there is more than enough material for a separate subject and its much ignored. I was thinking about refining rivers and marking out local area stuff that normally doesn't appear on most maps, there virtually would be a lot of stuff that could be done in this area. Then you come to your suggestion, technical drawing, and I was walking through a shopping centre today and that side of things came to mind where you normally can't get GPS signal but they could measure out the shop fronts using another method and extrapolating from known positions outside where you can get a good gps signal. There is almost endless amounts of refinement and mapping that could be done, and would cross disciplines from geography to architecture to history even, since you can get copies of old maps and see how towns grew over time. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: I was thinking about refining rivers and marking out local area stuff that normally doesn't appear on most maps, there virtually would be a lot of stuff that could be done in this area. Then you come to your suggestion, technical drawing, and I was walking through a shopping centre today and that side of things came to mind where you normally can't get GPS signal but they could measure out the shop fronts using another method and extrapolating from known positions outside where you can get a good gps signal. There is almost endless amounts of refinement and mapping that could be done, and would cross disciplines from geography to architecture to history even, since you can get copies of old maps and see how towns grew over time. Your problem John, is that you are confusing educating people with providing them with a School Certificate or whatever Yes, it would be a great way to teach kids about their world, to look at it, to describe it, to measure it but how can we make this fit with the curriculum? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM
b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: If anybody's got ideas on how to incorporate it into a maths lesson I'm all ears too. My high school maths touched on surveying, which is all geometry and trigonometry. Map your school, the nearby playing field or shops or whatever and calculate boundary lengths or areas of various features. For senior high school students, what about studying a bit of the maths involved in GPS? Techniques used in triangulation and estimating error, for example. You may want to include relativistic effects such as frequency shifts and time corrections for your best students. -- Sam Couter | mailto:s...@couter.id.au OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM
Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Your problem John, is that you are confusing educating people with providing them with a School Certificate or whatever I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain -- Sam Couter | mailto:s...@couter.id.au OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM
Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote OSM, geography students. I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little cartography :) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
