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

Interest has been very high, and we are considering different ways to ensure the a great project ideas will be picked up. Even if the list already seems quite long, do add yourself!

We are also hoping that people will set up their own learning groups and would help facilitate that process. If you want to explore this option, please write to phi.schmidt(at)gmail.com!

If you have signed up already, but forgot to add your email address, or project description, please add them!

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.

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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.

• Greg Wilson, gvwilson AT cs DOT toronto DOT edu, http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gvwilson. I'd like to work on a REST API generator for Django.
• Hans Põldoja, hans DOT poldoja AT tlu DOT ee, http://educoursehans.wordpress.com/. Research associate in Tallinn University, Estonia. I am one of the developers of OER authoring community LeMill. Also I am active in 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.
• Carlos Albaladejo (I will blog it at UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning blog)
• Shree Kant Bohra
• Gregorio Espadas (I'm a teacher from UADY)
• Alex Mayorga Adame (Open course-ware for my English students or an fully open e-pals project)
• 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.)
• Joss Winn, jwinn AT lincoln DOT ac DOT 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.
• Tati Wells - Free multimedia software researcher and lecturer / Brasil / contratv / g2g
• 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.
• Susan Gaer I would like to investigate using open source software with ESL students at the non credit community college level.
• 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.
• Andrew Shean, ashean@alliant.edu, Ed.D, Project Developer for Virtual High School at the Poway Unified School District and Adjunct for Alliant University GSOE. My project is to utilize Open Source resources to drive some of the content for our online high school.
• Elena M. Lopez, PhD; lopez.apclass at gmail dot com; I'm currently an online instructor for Colorado State University. I would like to explore the integration of Web 2.0 apps and the development of tutorials using opening source technologies for undergraduate-level courses serving non-traditional students.
• Wendall Cada, wendallc at 83864 dot com, http://www.wendallcada.com, Free Software Developer and Software Developer for Essential Education Corporation, We are in the early planning phases of an instructional delivery and storyboarding system for the creation of learning courses. We plan to use firefox add-ons and new capabilities in Firefox 3.1+ for Audio, Video, JavaScript and SVG. We at various stages of planning or implementing several open education technologies into our current site and products. Creating a realistic plan and goals based on open content, open tech, and open pedagogy.
• Priit Tammets, tammets AT tlu DOT ee, http://tmmts.blogspot.com/. Project plan would involve collecting ideas for open learning environment built upon Web 2.0 tools that are used by the students in their everyday life.
• Alek Tarkowski, alek AT creativecommons DOT pl, CC PL, Kultura 2.0 blog. I am the Public Lead of Creative Commons in Poland and also work at a research institute at University of Warsaw, where we promote open science. I'm building now an online collection of freely available Polish scientific books - as my project I would like to consider how this collection can be used as an active educational resource: what tools could be used to have students not just read, but interact with the works. (things like CommentPress, for example).
• Heili Saia heili1 at email.ee http://heili1.edublogs.org I study multimedium and learning systems and the project will be an aggregator to manage students blogs and group works.
• Guillermo Movia guillermo.movia at gmail DOT com, my blog is un ojo en el cielo I'.m a communication research an a memeber of Argentina's Mozilla Community. My project will be add-ons to Firefox to be more useful with moodle, an educational platform.
• Jason Stuart, jts0803odon AT gmail DOT com, [1] - seeking to integrate light, transportable kiosk-based software into writing classrooms, and looking for software to match - particularly Firefox.
• Michael Ormsby michaelormsby@mac.com CEO of Essential Education Corp.
• Patrice Gans, pgans@fraserwoods.com, I teach technology at a small private school (K-8) and I am interested in  pursuing educational opportunities that allow me to utilize the latest web technologies.  Currently I am in the process of using wikis and blogs with my students.  We are using blogs and e-mail to share cultural information with an electronic pen-pals in Germany, and we are working on a wiki to help us organize information for a historical video of our school. I would like to develop interfaces that would be more intuitive for my younger students so that they can use on-line resources.
• Michael Rowe. Physiotherapy educator interested in the use of social media / new technologies to improve teaching and learning practice. Projects I currently run include OpenPhysio, an online physiotherapy reference using MediaWiki, and the use of blogging as a form of reflection in a physiotherapy ethics module (closed environment owing to sensitive nature of content). I'm also interested in open access, open source software and free culture. There are several projects I'm thinking about, including starting a national online physiotherapy textbook, collaboratively authored, that will be culturally and contextually relevant to South African students (under a creative commons license of course). International communication and discourse between academics, clinicians and students would necessarily make use of multiple channels of communication (blogs, Google Docs, wikis, VoIP, Twitter, etc.), which in itself would be interesting. Maybe too ambitious...?
• Karen Fasimpaur, (karen at k12opened dot com; Open ed blog) K-12 educator, professional development specialist, open ed evangelist, and co-founder of Kids Open Dictionary. I have worked in ed tech for 15+ years, have been a teacher, and have worked in textbook publishing (much to my chagrin now, but it was a great learning process) and software publishing. My project idea is to create an open writing space; see here for more info.
• Bernard Sadaka: sdkaaa [ a at t] gmail [d dot d] com . Computer and Communication Engineering, interested in education as major challenger for society problems. The project i would like to work on includes but is not restricted to the work on developing a framework for an online epistemic community through OER, Firefox and WikiPedia. The aim of this community is to provide the path to the use of structured knowledge in educational tools such as online epistemic games.
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