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| Report | |
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| Status: | In Development |
| Version: | 0.1 |
| Base: | |
| Source: | Report |
| l10n: | missing |
| Contributors | |
| ThePerturbator,Dan Sutera | |
Description & Goals
The Report activity is designed for students to learn and actively participate in journalism.
The activity provides:
- A tutorial for outlining a news article
- A free writing mode
- The ability to include a photograph (and later video)
- The ability to publish to an online blog (perhaps 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
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 |
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