Education/EduCourse/SignUp

Please add your name, contact details (email, blog), a short description of your background and an outline of your project idea.

We only have space for the first 20 in this original course, but if interest is sufficient, we hope to run it again.

Please include a short description of a project that you'd like to work on during the six weeks of the course.

The idea is to come up with educational design ideas that apply the open content, open tech, and open pedagogy ideas discussed in the course. Possible project topics include:

• A plan or mockup for improving education.mozilla.org, Mozilla's emerging platform for educators (it's just a wiki now :)).
• A spec for turning Firefox into the 'educational platform for the future' by pulling together addons for specific education use cases
• A light-weight tool to integrate Web 2.0 services into one edu-platform, using things like RSS and sticky-tape
• An e-portfolio that follows students around the web, and can be used for recognition and assessment of their work on blogs, wikis, in discussion threads, etc.

Of course, you can also do a project built around a course or initiative that you plan to implement personally. The only thing we ask is that the project focus on something practical and real. It shouldn't just be an exercise.

There will be dedicated sessions during the course to discuss the projects, and mentors from Mozilla, ccLearn, and P2PU will provide feedback.

Have questions about the course or the sign-up process? Post them here!

First 20

Example: Name, Email AT domain dot org, Blog URL, Project description and background.

Please make sure to include a project description as described above. People who submit project descriptions will take priority over those who do not.

1. Greg Wilson
2. Hans Põldoja, hans AT hanspoldoja DOT net, http://educoursehans.wordpress.com/. Research associate in Tallinn University, Estonia. I am one of the developers of OER authoring community LeMill. I am also establishing Estonian Wikiversity. My initial project idea is to design (and possibly develop) a lightweight aggregator for following student blogs. I have been organizing several open online courses and found out that I need something more than plain RSS reader to follow the course. Maybe it can be developed with Yahoo Pipes.
3. Carlos Albaladejo (I will blog it at UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning blog)
4. Shree Kant Bohra
5. Gregorio Espadas (I'm a teacher from UADY)
6. Alex Mayorga Adame (Open course-ware for my English students or an fully open e-pals project)
7. Aung Zayar Lwin, alwin AT alliant DOT edu (I have been an adjunct faculty and have been responsible for social and learning initiatives at MGSM at Alliant. I would like to explore development of an open content course on social computing and web 2.0 tools for organizations, using open tools as much as possible, of course.)
8. Joss Winn, jwinn AT lincoln DOT ac DOT uk, http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk. Technology Officer, University of Lincoln, UK. I run a new BuddyPress/WordPressMU install and would like to explore the ways students' existing/previous/personal digital profiles/portfolios can be aggregated into the platform and developed without being tied to the platform itself. Tags: Student identity, data portability, syndication, aggregation, collaboration, personal development, e-portfolios.
9. Tati Wells - Free multimedia software researcher and lecturer / Brasil / contratv / g2g
10. Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se, senior lecturer at the University of Göteborg (west Sweden) I want to work with integrating web2.0 solutions into education in addition to updating methods of evaluation and examination.
11. Susan Gaer I would like to investigate using open source software with ESL students at the non credit community college level.
12. Brian Smith brian.teacher AT gmail DOT com . I want to develop firefox add-ons and software tools that will aid Elementary students in content creation, and e-portfolios. I am currently a Grade 5 teacher in Ontario, Canada. I have a student blog currently, and I will be setting up a personal one prior to the course.
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More interest than space?

Even if you did not sign-up on time for the first 20 slots, please do submit your name and contact. Some people might drop-out, and we are also hoping that others will set up their own learning groups - and work through the materials together. We are happy to help facilitate that process, write to phi.schmidt(at)gmail.com if you are interested in running your own group.

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