Report

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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.

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
- There may be a beginner and advanced mode on the plan tab (TBD)
- 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).

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

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.

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
• Owen Williams
  • owen at ywwg.com
  • Reader integration
• Lisa Williams
  • lisa at cadence90.com
• SJ Klein, OLPC
• Lauren Klein, OLPC
• Brendan Ballou, Colombia
  • Grant
• Nick Racuente, Swarthmore
  • Coding
• James Levy, Northwestern
  • Journalism
• IRC Chat
  • irc.freenode.net at #fcolpc

Schedule

October 10:

• Mockups Completed
• Content Finalized
• Gauge Interest in Group

October 15:

• Knight Foundation application

November 30:

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

History

More background on this project can be found at:

Journalism Jam New York/Results