Talk:Curriculum Jam Boston

Kevin's Braindumpspace

• I am interested in an event that is as much about making friends of area educators as it is about developing free curriculum. I think that the voices, faces, and stories of nearby teachers will be a big motivating factor for work as the year goes on. We need a little more teacher's lounge in our internet-mediated pursuits!

• Perhaps each day has a theme. For example, Friday is for people who are sort of already "sold" on the idea while Saturday is a bigger jam with free pizza and other activities. Sunday we try to get the max number of learners and students to do "bug tests." ;)

• Free pizza for everyone who comes with a favorite learning activity to share!

• We need to make things that people can take back to their schools, homes, friends, classmates, professors, colleagues, etc.

• Working at the same time as other jams around the world is so powerful that we should do everything possible to hold our event on Oct 5-7. A big projector with an IRC channel would be da bomb.

• We need a one-sheet in advance describing teachers' rights as creators and empowering them with the option to license their works for sharing in a global commons.

• Big whiteboards + butcher block paper should visually express the work that is happening so that people who come late can feel like they know what's going on.

• Having a copy machine / scanner (with OCR) nearby would be super helpful.

Questions raised

• What incentives might a person need in order to spend some of their weekend at an event like this?

• What low hanging fruit exists in this space?

• If someone can only come for an hour or two, how can they best contribute?

• Who is going to give us free pizza (or burritos or chinese food or sushi or other easily shareable foods?)

• What professional networks already exist to whom we can reach out?

• How many people will come to an event like this?

• Can we have monster movies and sleeping bags at night like an after-prom lock-in?