[Teachosm] TeachOSM: the next month

[Mueller, Thomas]

Hello everyone

Yes, I want to help. I am going to include OSM in my Intro class (100 students).  I am going to have students evaluate other students.  I will keep everyone posted

Tom

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From: Steven Johnson [sejohnson8 at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 4:56 PM
To: Ouellette, Janice; Helen Plattner; nuala at gwu.edu; Richard Hinton; Andrew Wiseman; Melinda Laituri; Mikel Maron; Mueller, Thomas; Boom Geo; teachosm at openstreetmap.org; Jonathan Marino; Elizabeth Lyon
Subject: TeachOSM: the next month

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(I promise this is the last time I'll cross-post to TeachOSM list and individuals. Just go ahead and sub to TeachOSM already, if you haven't.)

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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