[school-discuss] LessonForge started

[Douglas Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

First, an announcement; then a minor complaint.

There has been a discussion going on on the Open Source Now 
mailing list sponsored by RedHat about open lesson plans licensed 
in a manner similar to open source/free software.  That 
discussion galvanized Matt Jezorek to start up LessonForge 
<http://www.lessonforge.com/mailman/listinfo/lessonforge>.  It 
looks like a very good idea, and I encourage all you teachers on 
this list to take a look at the mailing list archives and see if 
you can give them a hand.

Now the complaint.  We formed Schoolforge as a coalition of 
groups working on getting open resources into education.  One of 
the goals of the coalition is to make sure that the various 
groups are kept aware of what the others are doing, so there's 
not a needless duplication of efforts.  That means that when you 
start talking about or working on something new you ought to 
mention it here so people in other groups know about it and can 
help out if they are interested.  Communication is the most 
important thing here--this coalition won't work if we don't do this.

I try to mention the major things I pick up from other places, 
but I"m only one person and I know I don't hear a lot of 
interesting stuff that ought to be posted here.  So everyone, but 
especially the representatives of Schoolforge member groups, if 
you're involved in some interesting new discussion or new 
initiative, tell us about it here!  If everyone's listening but 
just a few are talking, we're all the poorer for it.

You representatives of member groups, please consider making a 
regular post (weekly, biweekly, monthly, whatever works for you) 
to the schoolforge-discuss mailing list about what your 
organization is doing.  I promise, we'll all be interested, and 
we may find unexpected common efforts that we can fruitfully 
collaborate on!

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