[Teachosm] TeachOSM: the next month

[Steven Johnson]

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I'm off to Indonesia for a couple weeks, so I wanted to check in and share
some updates...

Tom Mueller is adding an introductory session on OpenStreetMap to his
classes at California Univ of PA and he's agreed to draft an case study of
his project and post it to TeachOSM. I've also asked him to share his
system for grading and assigning credit. Tom also has some cool ideas for
GeoAwarenessWeek 2015 and since planning for last year's event started in
May, we're on top of the curve. If you want to help with the planning,
please wave your hand.

Thanks to Jon Marino & Liz Lyon doing the heavy lifting for Geo-badges. The
target date for v. 1 of the badging infrastructure will be in place ~20
Apr. After that we can start creating content for our first badge for OSM
editing. If you want to contribute content, rubric, projects, please let us
know.

Also, Richard Hinton, Nuala Cowen, and I are planning to give a half-day
workshop at GWU on 18 April. This is a rehearsal of the OSM Summer Camp
workshop we plan to give at State of the Map[2]. If you'd like to attend,
or know someone who would, please contact one of us off line.

I blogged some stuff about TeachOSM here: http://ow.ly/KQHir and proposed a
presentation on TeachOSM for the HOT Summit[3]. We're just starting to
develop connections with domestic education and community development
groups. It would be amazing to have localized versions of TeachOSM, just as
LearnOSM has been translated into multiple languages.

If you're still looking for a place to plug in, where you might help,
consider helping with outreach to teachers and educational institutions so
we can get ~30 of them to the State of the Map in June.

Best,

[1] http://stateofthemap.us/
[2] http://teachosm.org/sotmus
[3] http://summit.hotosm.org/

-- SEJ
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There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from
incomplete data.
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