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Re: [school-discuss] Local outreach programs built around a community EduApp project



I am interested, but I was wondering if there were any
people in Montreal that I could network with?  
I am presently starting an internship in the
interdisciplinary education department @ McGill
University and I am wanting to set up a moodle type
network.
Ideally we want to put up information, articles,
journals, have chats, create a repository of local
Mohawk, cree and Inuit knowledge and have it grow with
the members of the center but I do not know where to
start or how to start it.  
I feel a little overwhelmed because I am an
educational technologist but I focused more on the
curriculum development and policy side then the
software development side of my program and now I am
in need of some support to create an online
environment for a critical pedagogy center.  
Does anyone have suggestions or connections?
Thank you
Teprine

--- Charles Cosse <ccosse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear SchoolForge Members,
> 
> greetings from sunny Southern New Mexico, where it
> is
> currently snowing!  I'm writing to propose that we
> join
> forces in developing an opensource framework for
> small
> education software projects, which will subsequently
> be
> refered to as "EduApps" during this letter.
> 
> What I have in mind is a two-part business model we
> could
> all benefit from: First, the opensource community
> develops
> and maintains a central "EduApp Developer's Kit" on
> the
> SourceForge website. This kit would contain the
> EduApp
> Library, template applications and tutorial
> materials to
> facilitate creation of new applications compatible
> with the
> framework.  Among the functionalities handled by
> this base
> framework would be a data recording module to record
> transcripts of interactive sessions.
> 
> Then, interested participants setup their own local
> program
> to develop EduApps in response to requests from
> local
> teachers; local participants download the
> developer's kit,
> and upload their GPL'd innovations back to the
> central
> repository on SourceForge.
> 
> Here at New Mexico State University we are
> attempting to
> bootstrap such a program into existence.  In this
> case, our
> program serves to broker deals between local
> teachers'
> requests, university departments (which give course
> credit
> to student programmers from their respective
> departments)
> and external funding sources.
> 
> Our specific model seeks to recognize sponsors with
> a
> reserved acknowledgement space in the application.
> The data
> could potentially be used by teachers, university
> researchers, and school administrators, to quantify
> student
> performances and advance research into formative
> learning
> processes.
> 
> This whole concept is something which I have been
> working
> on for several years. I currently have a small suite
> of
> applications which all derive from a common EduApp
> template,
> and thus, much of the above work has already been
> started.
> The current design is for EduApps written in Python,
> with
> the options of both wxPython and PyGame toolkits, as
> unified
> through the current framework, located at:
> 
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/eduapp
>     http://www.asymptopia.org
> 
> The sourceforge website is sparse because it has
> only
> recently been decided to steer the project in the
> direction
> advocated in this email.  However, there are mailing
> lists
> and forums setup where, hopefully, a discussion on
> this can
> continue.
> 
> This model can offer educational, financial and
> publishing
> opportunities to everyone involved. I believe
> industry
> sponsors would be very attracted to local
> "franchises" or
> campus "industries"  (or outreach projects) as
> described
> above.  One way to think of it is as a community
> self-service
> program.  There is a lot more to be said, and I am
> eager to
> follow-up after giving you all a chance to respond.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Charlie Cosse
> 
> ccosse@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.asymptopia.org
> http://eduapp.nmsu.edu
> 


Teprine Baldo 
  Bleu Rouge Productions
  (514) 201-7801
  (514) 522-3168
   


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