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* [[User:dsutera|Dan Sutera]] at NYU (General /Grant / UI)
* [[User:dsutera|Dan Sutera]] at NYU (General /Grant / UI)
* Rajesh Ramakrishnan at Columbia University (Development)
* [[User:ThePerturbator|Rajesh Ramakrishnan]] at Columbia University (Development)
* Emmanuelle Collet (Tutorial)
* Emmanuelle Collet (Tutorial)
* SJ Klein at OLPC (Advisor)
* SJ Klein at OLPC (Advisor)

Revision as of 09:40, 4 October 2007

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Description & Goals

Report activity

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.

Grant

We are in the process of applying for a grant with the Knight Foundation.

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

The deadline is October 15th.

Visual Design

Source Files

Document Description
Activity Mockup (400KB) history Zip file containing Adobe Fireworks mockups


Screenshots

Plan Tab
Write Tab
Publish Tab


Development

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
- The launch date for v1.0 is November 30, 2007

Source Code

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

Tutorial

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

Document Description
Current Tutorial (8KB) history RTF Tutorial on writing a news article

XOTimes.org

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

We have secured the domain name xotimes.org but this is subject to change.

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

Team

  • Dan Sutera at NYU (General /Grant / UI)
  • Rajesh Ramakrishnan at Columbia University (Development)
  • Emmanuelle Collet (Tutorial)
  • SJ Klein at OLPC (Advisor)
  • Brendan Ballou at Colombia

History

More background on this project can be found at:

Journalism Jam New York/Results