I live in New York, how can I benefit from such rich information without have the luxury of traveling to London?
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Nicola Osborne <[email protected]>wrote: > "Because everyone will eventually have 'an App' in their pocket that uses > GPS!" > > JISC is pleased to announce the launch of several new BETA products and > tools centred around geospatial technology and aimed at Universities, > Colleges and Schools. Come along and experiment with these > soon-to-be-released products at a special one day event on Monday November > 28th at Ravensborough College (next door to the Milennium Dome) in London. > We encourage students, researchers and teaching staff from all disciplines > to attend and sample these fantastic new tools so that we can further their > usefulness to everyone in Academia. Come along and discover how Geo really > is part of everyday work and play :) > > So, what can you expect? > > Well, we have a fantastic set of geospatial tools and projects including > these highlights: > > Are you a student? You'll want to see the #Gemma project (University > College London) and their cool new Android and iPhone apps that help > collect data for research projects and assignments and then present your > data as colourful maps. Want to impress your teachers and get a better > grade on your next assignment? Want to use your smartphone for data > collection? Then you need to check this event out. > > Are you a researcher? You'll want to see how the Halogen2 (University of > Leicester) project have build cross-disciplinary geo links between DNA data > and other scholarly datasets: archaeology, genealogy, history.... Welcome > to the future of cross-disciplinary research! > > Are you a teacher? You'll want to see the new handbook that GeoSciTeach? > (Institute of Education) is producing on how to integrate geospatial tools > into class activities. See how they used mobile phones to conduct a lesson > at Kew Gardens, making the great outdoors into an interactive teaching and > learning space. In short, you're not cool unless you've got geospatial in > school! > > Best of all the day is finished up with an evening Awards party (in the > Millenium Dome!) for the projects and all their hard work. Come shake hands > with these projects, toast their success and find out who will win > Geospatial project of the Year! > > For a Draft Agenda for the event please see: http://code.google.com/p/** > jiscgeo/wiki/**ProgrammeMeetingAgenda<http://code.google.com/p/jiscgeo/wiki/ProgrammeMeetingAgenda> > > Please use the hashtag "#jiscGEO" to talk about this event on your > favourite social network. > > To register for this event please use the following link (Day 1 is the > 'Show and Tell' Day described above for these projects - though you are > welcome to stay on and learn more about geo on the other event days): > > https://www.eventsforce.net/**jisc/147/home<https://www.eventsforce.net/jisc/147/home> > > See you there! > > Nicola Osborne > JISC GECO Project Team > -- > > JISC GECO Website: http://geco.blogs.edina.ac.uk/ > Follow us: @jiscGECO > > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >
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