The ICA-OSGeo Lab Network and MundoGEO are now pleased to inform the eighth webinar of the ”Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series on June 11th. The webinar will be open and free to all on first come register basis.
This webinar will be gvSIG Educa/Batoví, a customization of the gvSIG Desktop Open Source GIS, adapted as a tool for the education of issues that have a geographic component. It is based on gvSIG and it was originally developed to promote the use of GIS in educational settings around the Plan Ceibal initiative (Uruguay).
The aim of gvSIG Educa/Batoví is to provide educators with a tool that helps students to analyse and understand space, and which can be adapted to different levels or education systems. gvSIG Educa/Batoví is not only useful for the teaching of geographic material, but can also be used for learning any subject that contains a spatial component such as history, economics, natural science, sociology. gvSIG Educa/Batoví facilitates learning by letting students interact with the information, by adding a spatial component to the study of the material, and by facilitating the assimilation of concepts through visual tools such as thematic maps.
This webinar is suitable for anybody related in some way with teaching GIS, specially those that work with children and teenagers. The speaker will be Sergio Acosta y Lara, from the National Direction of Surveying of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works of Uruguay.
Attendees will be able to interact with the speakers by sending their comments and questions through chat. All attendees of this web seminar will receive certificates for their participation.
Webinar: gvSIG Educa/Batoví: An Educational Tool for Teaching GIS in Schools
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM GMT
Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/326667402
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
MundoGEO Webinars
MundoGEO webinars were created for educational and informational purposes on technologies, cases and trends in the geospatial solutions industry. The webinars offer a simple and fast way for refresher courses, placing the companies, institutions and users in direct contact, without the need to travel.
With over 160 webinars conducted since 2009, MundoGEO has averaged 1,500 registrants and 750 atendees per event. All webinars are recorded and the videos are available a few hours after the seminar, for participants and also for those who could not attend in time. The files, as well as the schedule of upcoming webinars, are available at www.mundogeo.com/webinar.