Hi
If you are using QGIS in education, you may also want to take a look at these
resources:
http://linfiniti.com/dla
All licensed under GPLD and CC-SA.
Regards
Tim
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From: Daniel Freeman
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To: QGIS Users
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] What is the matter with QGis versus MS Windows?
Sent: Nov 30, 2009 1:07 AM
Good Evening Qgis Users,
I have been following this list-serve for the last 6-8 months and I just want
to say thank you to all of the developers and others who have contributed to
this wonderful piece of software. I am not a GIS professional by trade, but
do have a Certificate in GIS Science after completing a 24 hr semester course
of studies in the field. My field expertise is education and instructional
technology having been a university instructor, science teacher and science
supervisor in a school district with > 40,000 students. I currently work for
the federal govt as a web-based/distant learning instructional designer in the
medical field.
I am currently developing a series of gis lessons/information using QGIS as the
main software for the instruction for the K-12 environment. Having been in the
K-16 environment, I know schools are constantly looking for ways to save money
and provide appropriate technological experiences for their students. Although
the leading GIS software company has a very extensive K-12 education
initiative, their main focus is to sell products and to help the professional
GIS community. I see open source software, be it Office, imaging software,
QGIS or NIH Image J (did my doctoral work with the predecessor of this
software), as major players in the education field. With open source software
teachers can modify the application and provide appropriate homework
assignments to their students (for the students can also install the software
on their own computers), something that won't happen with commercial software
unless the software is practically given away.
Although I too have used MapWindows and think it is a very good piece of
software, but the K-12 environment uses both Windows PCs and Macs and with the
Intel Mac thus my focus being QGIS.
Once again my hats off to all of the fine people who have developed, and
continue to support this fine product.
Thank you.
Daniel
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