Re: [school-discuss] Passing of the torch

["David M. Bucknell" <dbucknell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Welcome, Justin.

Thank you, Doug, for your long-time, and I think effective efforts.

I have helped out in the past and would like to continue to do so.  I  
am glad someone is talking about the Web site as this relates to  
schoolforge's direction.  Personally, I think this would be best  
discussed on this list.
With that (humbly-presented) opinion in mind, I hope you will indulge  
a couple more of my thoughts.

* Les Richardson created the membership database and I maintained it  
actively for a while, but work demands and health problems intervened  
and the database now needs (I think) to be started again from scratch.  
 I apologize for this lack of supervision and can only ask members'  
forgiveness for good intentions wrecked by health problems.

* I also used to run opensourceschools.org actively as a journal about  
open source in schools in many people among the members wrote great  
articles for it. I think it was a good thing and needs to be part of  
schoolforge's ongoing contributions.

* Finally, I would I would like to solicit interest from people  
willing to head two projects which I will host (and which I hope  
members think should be schoolforge-owned):

1.) Editor, Schoolforge Journal/ Open Source Schools Journal  
(http://opensourceschools.org).

Needs someone who likes writing to restart monthly (or perhaps 6 or 8  
or 10 a year) issues, actively encourage people to write up their  
accomplishments re FLOSS / open source in education (or those of  
others), and to lead the discussion among members and contributors  
about its editorial direction.

2.) Project leader Open Quest Project (http://openquestproject.org), a  
wiki-based educational lessons and curriculum project meant to create  
an actively-developed student-made database of assignments, lessons  
and "reports" about the world.  Needs someone  
technically-knowledgeable enough to maintain the wiki and also  
(perhaps another person) who is a teacher.

As you'll see if you look at the site, I had a few ideas for its name  
;-).   The project is just in the proposal stages at the moment.

Its purposes are:

a) to combine what's best about Webquests and Thinkquests*


and

b)to model the importance of licensing for the benefit of teachers,
c) to encourage active, project-based learning, network-based  
collaboration-practice and
d) contribution to a student-teacher-made, useful fact database (like  
wikipedia) as a normal part of each  assignment and its completion for  
students everywhere.


Of course, these are volunteer jobs.  I think they are needed and  
would support someone willing to build the communities they each need.

Please let me know if you're interested.

Thank you.

David



----- Message from les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------
    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:58:43 -0600 (CST)
    From: Les Richardson <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Passing of the torch
      To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


> Hi Justin,
>
> I'm also willing to help out (as in the past... (grin)).
>
> However, Doug did the hard work, of course.
> I'm assuming we can continue the tradition.
>
>
> Les Richardson
> Seul Application Index / Case Studies / Open Admin for Schools
>
> --
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