Educators

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There are a number of ways to become involved with the OLPC project. Educators and educational publishers are invited to

Project Ideas

See Activating educators for some general ideas and organizational principles.

Expand presence of educators on wiki

  • Begin w/ template for educational org user page.
  • Ask specific orgs to seed:
    • MaMaMedia
    • E3F
    • WikiEducator
    • Curriki

Educational bundle as part of each release

Emphasis on mixed/mulit-media format, composed of:

  • Activity
  • Sample lesson plan(s) for activity
  • Example of activity in use, possibly including...
    • Kid's final product (if generative activity) or
    • Page that documents activity in classroom (anecdotes, pix, etc).
  • Explanation of theory behind activity.

First one for July release? (Or practice w/ eToys for June internal release).

Educational activity guidelines

See Educational activity guidelines. Basically, the HIG for educators, w/ examples.

Educator Jam

Cf. Game Jam, but for educators w/ aim of designing activities for Activites.

Discussion begins 6/18.

  • Dates?
  • Locations?
  • Agenda?

Meta-indexing for library

How to be able to search existing content repositories?

  • XML spec/namespace?
  • thing to embed?