TeachOSM Educator Workshop
Sunday, 9am - 5pm
A one-day open mapping workshop for high school and college teachers. The workshop gives teachers the tools to create engaging, hands-on mapping projects for their students. Workshop participants will:
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Get a hands-on introduction to fundamental open mapping techniques – the OpenStreetMap toolset, editing OpenStreetMap, and best practices for data quality Conduct a street survey with OSM veterans to map different neighborhoods throughout Boulder using field papers
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Use active examples of how to apply open mapping techniques in class: how to create good projects.
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Use the TeachOSM for High School curriculum to create a classroom mapathon Learn how to work in an open source community and contribute to the open mapping body of knowledge.
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Initiate partnerships with groups “on the ground” in areas needing mappers to pair classrooms with those in areas of need. (e.g. HOTOSM, Missing Maps)