On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:25 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > IdeaTorrent/Ubuntu Brainstorm is a neat project. It is simple and easy > to use. What matters though is that once such a mechanism is in place, > people who propose and/or vote should be as diverse as possible, > otherwise we get a bunch of developers who pat each other's back (self > selection bias). I still feel that this project does not involve enough > educators. Absolutely, I share that concern
> That's where majority of the ideas should come from. Agreed, esp. While kids can tell us what they like and don't like. They can't tell us what they aren't learning. > Educators know challenges in the classroom firsthand. They also know > what works. So, in implementing ideatorrent or some such thing, the > barrier to entry for an educator should be minimal. absolutely. > Once a project gets a lot of votes, the next step becomes crucial. How > does an idea become a project? Who takes it on? etc. That workflow must > be established as well. > > Sameer > _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
