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[edit] Description & Goals

Sample XOTimes.org Report

The Report activity is designed for students to learn and actively participate in journalism.

The activity provides:

1. A tutorial for outlining a news article
2. A free writing mode
3. The ability to include a photograph (later video)
4. The ability to publish to an online blog (xotimes.org)

It is our goal that the software will be included as a core activity.

The larger goal is to provide children a voice in world events.

[edit] Visual Design

[edit] Source Files

[edit] Screenshots

Plan Tab

Write Tab

Publish Tab

[edit] Development

[edit] Status

- This works for build 595
- The wordpress module is =in the ./wordpress directory and needs to be setup through ./wordpress/setup.py install
- The install script works as per expectation: ./setup.py dev
- The blog feature works to some extent, but it currently only grabs the text 
  [The AbiWord module needs to be modified to somehow spit out data in a better format]
- No implementation work has been done on the plan tab.
- The username and password to the blog have been hardcoded to post to http://olpcjam.wordpress.com
- There may be a beginner and advanced mode on the plan tab (TBD)
- The launch date for v1.0 is November 30, 2007

[edit] Source Code

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~sjklein/Report.tar

[edit] Tutorial

Journalists are currently working on the tutorial content of the activity.
The content will be completed October 10, 2007.

[edit] XOTimes.org

We intend to create a blog/news web site where the news articles will be published (a la CNN or Digg).

The site is up at http://www.xotimes.org, however it is currently hardcoded to a single blog.

Hopefully some of the more popular articles will get picked up by the mainstream press.

Some features we would like to have:

• Private Group Blogs
• Digging (voting) best articles
• RSS
• Podcasting

[edit] Grant

We have applied for a grant with the Knight Foundation. You can read our grant proposal below.

More information can be found at http://www.newschallenge.org.

[edit] Team

• Dan Sutera, NYU
  • dansutera at yahoo.com
  • General / Grant / UI (Contact Person)
• Rajesh Ramakrishnan, Columbia
  • rr2318 at columbia.edu
  • Development
• Dan Lee, Columbia
  • dtl2103 at columbia.edu
  • Development
• Emmanuelle Collet, Journalist
  • emmanuelle.collet at gmail.com
  • Tutorial / Grant
• Andrew Ott
  • andrewott1 at gmail.com
  • Grant / PR
• Bob Stepno, aka Robby in xoLand, Radford University
  • hoping to be helpful
  • grant?
  • teaching writing & reporting?
  • rstepno at radfordDOTedu
• Owen Williams
  • owen at ywwg.com
  • Reader integration
• Lisa Williams
  • lisa at cadence90.com
• SJ Klein, OLPC
• Lauren Klein, OLPC
• Brendan Ballou, Columbia
  • Grant
• Nick Racuente, Swarthmore
  • Coding
• James Levy, Northwestern
  • Journalism

• IRC Chat
  • irc.freenode.net at #fcolpc

[edit] Schedule

November 30:

• Functioning Report v1.0
• Functioning Website v1.0

[edit] History

More background on this project can be found at:

Journalism Jam New York/Results

Activity Summary