Hi Wayne, I think this is a great idea, and it shows how we can use and leverage our resources within the community, to move along....
I think a next step would be to see if there's agreement to proceed, and then put up a page on WikiEducator! Then, there would be ensuing dialogue, consensus-building, and action. Some issues: I think it's important to make sure that there's enough time to get all of the entries inWho's going to be eligible to work on it (i.e., how do you define "pupil" - is this High School Student"Who are the people who are going to "judge it"?Where and how can we promote it - in multiple places, and multiple times - before the due date?How can we get a bit o' publicity for this (this also needs lead time) - for during the competition, and then afterwards, (i.e., a news item)These are some thoughts....overall, I think it's a very worthwhile project! - Randy ________ Randy Fisher - aka "WikiRandy for WikiEducator" iCentro Networks Vancouver, BC +1 604.684.2275 www.icentronetworks.com www.hirerandy.com Skype / Gmail / Yahoo: wikirandy ----- Original Message ---- From: mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WikiEducator <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 8:22:31 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: free science/tech posters that can be translated and reprinted in Cambodia Hi John, I apologise for my tardy and belated response. It's a no-travel fortnight here at COL and I've been in meetings, meetings and more meetings. Just a little aside sharing solidarity with our collective challenges of so much to do --- and so little time <smile>. Your idea of free content posters for classrooms that can be translated, modified and adapted is simply brilliant! (I'm a little jealous that I did not think of a project like this myself!) We may not be able to meet your targets for November - but we will certainly be able to conceive and start an international project to promote the development of free content posters for learning. What about an international competition where our youth are tasked with developing posters for education. A great project where Art and graphic design teachers can collaborate with the the IT teachers. Let's design a "Posters4Learning" project -- an international competition where pupils are tasked with designing a poster to support teaching in the classroom - in a subject area of their choice. We will need to stipulate two requirements: 1) That all the posters are developed under a free content license - and 2) that all posters are developed in svg format (scalable vector graphics format). See for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg This is an XML graphics format that can be scaled to any size without loss in quality. Furthermore this is an open standard and there are free software authoring tools which support this format, for example, Inkscape.. See: http://www.inkscape.org/ This means that anyone will be able to edit or modify the poster - which will help us in promoting the translation of posters into different languages. OK - here is the deal. The Commonwealth of Learning will post a "bounty" for the prizes of the first competition. Lets say, for example ... First prize: CAD$ 800 Second prize: CAD$500 Third prize: CAD$200 What I'm going to need from the community of teachers is: 1. Help in designing the project - i.e. the competition rules 2. Help in promoting the project around the world - COL will undertake to develop a promotional brochure - but we need help in determining the text for the brochure. 3. Help in judging the prize winners. I'm very keen to offer COL's support in turning this idea into reality. I'll also speak with my friends in UN agencies to see how we could extend this idea beyond Commonwealth Countries. This is a great concept - how do we take it to the next level? Cheers Wayne On Oct 23, 3:23 am, "John T. Denny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friends > > Thank you very much for the constructive ideas... I suppose the real issue > is time and capacity... > > I have many other tasks to take care of so I cannot spend all my time on > this poster idea... yet if I do not do it then it will not get done as I am > an Army of one... :( > > Capacity is another good one as I do not have the capacity to make my own > posters nor do I have the capacity to organize others in a competition > considering my time constraints... We have having a workshop on Science > and Tech ed early December... I want to get some posters ready by late > November... takes time to gather the resources, get the budget approved > and printed in time.... everything takes more time when you are in a > developing nation... :) > > Peace > Tim > > -- > __________________________________ > John "Tim" Denny, Ph.D. ICT and Education Specialist > Adviser to the Cambodia MoEYS on Science and Technology Education > Executive Director, PC4peacehttp://www.pc4peace.orghttp://www.avuedigitalservices.com/VR/drjtdenny > Co-founder Open Schools Program - Cambodia > "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." Mahatma Gandhi > (1869-1948). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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