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Title: Elements of Information Ecology - An Open Source Curriculum
Location:
Global
Categories: Child & Youth Rights
Social Entrepreneurship
Technology
Sustainable Development
Peace & Conflict
Globalization
Education
Environment
Technology
Animal Rights
Culture
Citizen Journalism
Informal/Experiential Learning
Popular Culture
Globalization
Child & Youth Rights
Digital Citizenship
Health
Poverty
Freedom of Expression
Digital Divide
Civil Society
Education
Citizen Journalism
Learning
Religious Freedom
Human Rights
Environment
HIV/AIDS
Educational Technology
Cultural Diversity
Citizen Journalism
Citizen Journalism
International Aggreements
Diseases
Gender Equality
Genocide
Substance Abuse
Poverty
LGBT Rights
Social Entrepreneurship
Migration
Poverty
Child & Youth Rights
Child & Youth Rights
Sports
Substance Abuse
Status:
Completed
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
An open source curriculum in the Elements of Information Ecology, with a vision of discovering a host of "beta test" sites - in schools, colleges, libraries, neighborhoods, in a diversity of communities, including artistis, scientists, ecologists, librarians, computer wizards and in intentional faith-based communities, to participate in the interactive development of a comprehensive open source curriculum in the elements of information ecology.
Objectives:
- Establish the foundations for a comprehensive open source pre-K to 100+ curriculum in information ecology, including modules focusing on:
- Words
- Images
- Light & Colour
- Elements of HTML
- Numbers
- Sounds
- Information
- Communication
- Reconciliation
- Provide children with a supportive, creative and disciplined framework in which they learn the essential elements of information ecology through sharing their concerns, observations and visions through the medium of the World Wide Web.
- Create and disseminate the Elements of Information Ecology in HTML, CD-Rom & DVD formats
Objectives:
- Create a web site for the Friday afternoon classes in the computer lab through which the children learn the experience of describing their community and their concerns and observations in words, images and colours.
- Development of a comprehensive curriculum database for information ecology, using the DataPerfect Digital Engine - a prototype Information ecology engine, and the high-level kernel of an Information Ecology operatiing system
- Establish a forum for dialgoue and discussion of the conceptual and practical framework for Information Ecology, with particular attention to elaborating a General Framework of Information Economics
Needs:
- Funding
- A Home Space
- Office space
- Local area network
- Broadband connectivity
- Desks
- Chairs
- Access
- conference rooms
- classrooms
- library
- colleagues & partners
- Access to / use of Equipment
- Titanium Notebook Computer
- Digital camera
- Portable USB Flatbed scanner
- CD-Rom & DVD Duplicator
- Software
- Windows emulation for Mac
- Adobe Acrobat 6.0
- Abbyy Finereader 6.0
- Salaries
- Project Director
- Administrative Assistant
- Consulting Services
- Communications
- Wireless Network / Internet access
- Cellular phones
- Postage & Postages supplies
- Office Supplies
- Printing
- Inkjet cartridges
- Paper
- Glossy card stock
- CDRom & DVD
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