Thread by @OGGM_org

edu.oggm.org is an #interactive platform to #learn and #teach about #glaciers. We started OGGM-Edu as the "educational branch" of OGGM, but nowadays we see the project as largely independent and useful on its own. Why do we hope that it can be useful to you? 1/n

OGGM-Edu offers "hands-on" and practical activities, but only very little textbook content: we see the platform as an interactive complement to existing (and awesome) resources such as antarcticglaciers.org (@AntarcticGlacie) 2/n

Therefore, OGGM-Edu does not attempt to be a "one stop shop" for all things related to glaciers: our target groups are #instructors and independent learners. For example, OGGM-Edu was used by @LizzUltee to teach a week-long workshop in Peru with @CdeCPeru. 3/n

The main themes we are currently working on are the use of #glacier models to learn about glaciers and #climate change, with a focus on global issues such as sea-level rise and #water availability. These topics are close to our own research and area of expertise. 4/n

We rely on an #opensource, #decentralized and #collaborative content creation system: everything is available on our online repositories, with an #open #license allowing nonrestrictive reuse: github.com/OGGM/oggm-edu 5/n

#decentralized because content that can be run on OGGM-Edu does not have to be stored on our repositories. For example, @LizzUltee's notebooks belong to her and are independent from us: github.com/ehultee/CdeC-g… 6/n

#collaborative thanks to the decentralized open-source model. Any new modification and innovation can feed back into the original website, if the author of the new content chose a license allowing it (which we strongly recommend! @creativecommons 7/n

If you want to know more, visit our website and watch our recent seminar where we explain this in more detail: edu.oggm.org/en/latest/why_… . @GlacierHub wrote a nice piece about OGGM-Edu as well 🙏: blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/06/11/new…

All that being said... 8/n

... OGGM-Edu is still a long way for widespread use by teachers all over the world. We have so much left to do, and we would love to have your help! This can range from a typo correction to the preparation of class activities and language translation: edu.oggm.org/en/latest/road… 9/n

If you have read all that thread: thanks so much for your interest, let us know what you think and what we could do better, and have fun with OGGM-Edu! 🥳10/10