Learning4Content

Summer of Content 2007 +/-

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• Interns - If you are interested in this project, add your name to the Interested interns section below along with a brief description of why you're interested and why you'd be a good mentor for this project, along with any specific ideas for execution you might have beyond the project description.
• Mentors - If you are interested in this project, add your name to the Interested mentors section below along with a brief description of why you're interested and why you'd be a good mentor for this project, along with any specific ideas for execution you might have beyond the project description.
• Others - If you are interested in this project in a role other than that of potential mentor or potential intern (example: you are an organization, a potential end-user/tester, may have helpful resources, or want to be notified if the project is chosen), add your name to the Other interested parties section below with contact information and details.
• Everyone - Contribute to the project description on this page, or discuss this project on the associated talk page.

The deadline for editing this proposal or adding yourself to the list is 11:59pm EST (GMT-5) on August 6, 2007.

Project description

There is no set format for this section, and it can be as long or as short as you want. What do you want to do, why do you want to do it, and how will it happen? What kinds of people would be good at working on this? How will you know if you've succeeded? What similar things have been done before? You can supplement (and should) your application with external links to helpful resources, but a reader should be able to understand the project you are proposing even if they only read the abstract you've written here.

Help with the design of the Learning4Content initiative.

Interested interns

Intern name

Contact information, why you'd be good for the job, any specific plans, variants, or details you would personally like to implement and why

Interested mentors

Wendy Drexler

I believe in the right for every child in the world to have a quality education. Teachers who are passionate about teaching and learning will be eager to make a contribution and be a part of this effort. The key to success will be to keep it moving and organizing teams to make the most of talents and abilities. One option is to organize interns as team leaders who bring together other teachers or students in their personal communities to brainstorm specific curriculum areas and develop subsequent lessons. Templates and organized formats will help facilitate this process.

I'm very eager to see a collaborative component to the collection of lessons plans. Children learn as much if not more from each other as they do from us. OLPC provides a world of opporunity to share. Blogs, wikis, and other social networking applications can help facilitate this process. Assuming that Scratch is available on the OLPC computers, it would be interesting to start a collaborative Scratch project in which children partner to build Scratch environments and animations, and use these as inspiration for journaling, narratives, or even collaborative problem solving. Collaborative projects require more organizational planning up front, but the rewards could be very powerful.

Personal background: I teach third grade, have an Ed.S in Educational Technology, a Masters in Secondary Education, and I'm currently working on a PhD in Ed Tech. But, those are not the credentials that would make me a good mentor. A project like this is about passion.

Personal Blog: http://www.teachweb2.blogspot.com

Teach Web 2.0 Collaborative Effort (under development): http://teachweb2.wikispaces.com/

Kids Galore Helping Kids in Darfur (Developed by my third grade class): http://www.shorecrest.org/Darfur.html

Class Website: http://w3.shorecrest.org/%7Ethirdgrade/GR3/Drexlerclasswebsite/index.html

Other interested parties

Name

Contact information, what your interest is