Thanks Charlie and Suchith!!!
Best!
Maria
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> Il giorno 10/mar/2015, alle ore 18:51, Phillip Davis <pda...@delmar.edu> ha
> scritto:
>
> +1^10 for Charlie
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> [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mueller, Thomas
> [muel...@calu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:48 PM
> To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Using Collective Knowledge for the Common Good
>
> Congrats Charlie !!!
>
> Tom
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
> [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Suchith Anand
> [suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:14 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Using Collective Knowledge for the Common Good
>
> Colleagues,
>
> Let me also take this opportunity to also thank Charlie and the whole
> GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 committee for their help
> and inputs for this initiative which will have long term positive impacts in
> education efforts globally.
>
> I would like to also congratulate Charlie ( i just saw this today!) on his
> winning the international award honouring the late political economist Elinor
> Ostrom, the only woman to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic
> Sciences.
>
> I am really grateful to Charlie's strong support for all our Open Geo
> Education efforts from the very start. On behalf of "Geo for All' community,
> we are really proud and happy that Charlie has been recognised as one of the
> top 50 innovators in education for his cutting-edge use of open-source
> software in the classroom and as a research tool.
>
> Details at http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/open-source
>
> "Open Education Week" is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on the
> bigger purpose and join forces in using our collective knowledge to help open
> education opportunities to all to enable a better future for all.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: Anand Suchith
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 7:27 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015 http://www.openeducationweek.org/
> , "Geo for All" community http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all
> educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts and
> being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all.
>
> We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global
> Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to thank
> colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in Education
> principles in the Geo domain.
>
> Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or
> more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award
> In no particular order, the nominees are:
>
>
> INDIVIDUALS
>
> - Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his
> course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]
> - Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and
> tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2]
> - Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the
> course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos
> orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems for
> Education using Open Data” [3]
> - Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his
> Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central
> New Mexico Community College [4]
> - Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for his
> course on “Open Web Mapping” [5]
> - Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his
> “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6]
>
>
> TEAMS
>
> - Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their
> EduGIS Academy [7]
> - Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for their
> Interactive Web Maps course [8]
> - Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of Minnesota,
> USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial
> Computing” [9]
> - Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley
> (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz
> (Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of
> Girona in Spain [10]
> - Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno - FOSS4G lab, University of Colorado,
> Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials [11]
> - Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco, for their gvSIG
> Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12]
> - Kurt Menke - Brids Eye View, Nate Jennings Urbandale Spatial, Jon Van
> Hoesen Green Mtn College, Rick Smith Texas A&M, and Phil Davis, Delmar
> College (all in USA) for their GeoAcademy development efforts [13]
>
> All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their efforts.
> Just being nominated is an honour.
>
> The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting the
> GeoForAll Educator of the Year [14] out of this well deserving list of
> nominees. This year’s selections (possibly an individual and a team award)
> will be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation for Europe"
> conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/
>
> Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to list this
> nomination honour in your CVs.
>
> Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Prof. Charlie Schweik, on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection
> Committee:
>
> Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)
> Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)
> Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)
> Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)
> Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)
> Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)
> Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
> Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)
> Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)
> Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
> Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)
> Anne Ghisla (Germany)
> Patrick Hogan (USA)
> Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)
>
>
>
> REFERENCES
>
> [1]
> https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view
> [2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/
> [3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81
> [4] http://catalog.cnm.edu/
>
> [5] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/
>
> [6] http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/
> [7] http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide
> [8] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html
> [9] https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing
> [10] http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
> [11] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials
> [12]
> https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf
> [13] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com
> [14]
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015
>
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