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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.
• Steven Egan, igenoukan AT gmail dot com, Learning Science Meets Game Design. Computer Science Major and game designer with about a decade of tutoring experience working with Jim Groom of UMW blogs to see what might come of some discussions on his blog. That's my background. In this course, I'm hoping to go farther in my project of creating a distributed/loosely connected OER library using a couple XML schema containing meta data and content. To implement that I want to create the XML schema, code generating tools, editing tools, displaying tools and navigation tools. The tools are currently (mostly) designed and a couple are partially coded in HTML and Javascript, using jQuery. More about my idea. That then can be used as a common resource for educators, students, designers, developers and the public at large to create open resources and support learning projects. Eventually I'm hoping to use it in small community created educational games and an educational MMO that I have partially designed. Between here and there, there are issues of portfolios, accreditation, evaluation and many other things.
• OLE Bolivia site, yama AT netoso dot com, Yamandú Ploskonka recent ICT activities. With several teams in Bolivia we seek Quality Education for All starting from an orphanage in La Paz. What makes our approach better and rather unique :-) is that we seek to help teachers perform their current job, by focusing on curricular content with a long-term view of making students better able to learn and perform academically. Tools include increasing participation in digital communities, content creation and sharing by teachers and students, skills building, awareness and adaptation to learning styles, and localization for Bolivian national languages and cultures. I am convinced about the advantages of browser-delivered content (for one thing, it can be quite platform independent), and actually am experimenting on making that work within the vanilla Sugar/XO platforms. _{Yamaplos 21:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)}
• Mafe Mago: mafism AT gmail dot com, just recently been active with online community, have been a teacher and Information Technology (SW), and now looking to put on my experience both in the academe and IT. My idea is to work on the idea of creating a portal where in it will include the different Open Source learning software , activities for kids, Wikis, Blogs, children's book reviews with a framework of a Social Networking (e.g facebook type) that children can call there space..and communities can create learning activity plug-ins.
• Charity Gamboa: Educator/Writer, cha (underscore) gamboa AT yahoo dot com, http://charity.towerofbabel.com ...a professional license teacher in the Philippines for 10 years (8 years classroom and 2 years online/distance education for Koreans as a Head Teacher training and supervising online tutors)- also teaching Science, Technology and TESOL/TESL; ISOC PH IGF working group chairperson http://www.isoc.ph/about ; IGF Remote Participation Working Group (RPWG) http://www.igfremote.org; contributor to Internet Governance Forum article in wikipedia English version and translated the article to "Tagalog" (Philippine national language); I would like to develop an open courseware on TESOL/TESL for online tutors teaching non-English speakers , specifically on learning activities and assessment techniques...in my experience training online tutors I saw the need to collate ideas especially on best practices to teach/improve tutors' vocabulary and writing skills, and to eliminate common errors in Speech.
• Nate Otto: "Free Schooler"/Writer, nate@ottonomy.net ...a graduate of the Univ. of Oregon. I wrote my honors college thesis on metaphors to replace "Intellectual Property" that encourage stewardship of the commons of ideas. I would like to develop a short curriculum on Open Courseware resources for a small group of advanced high school students in a summer academy program. My goal is to teach students how to use OER and some individual strategies to enable classroom cooperation (and beyond) with web-based tools.I also want to develop a package of web tools that can be adapted to a range of middle/high school courses, which I can also use to host "free school" classes on my own server. I aim to help local teachers use OER strategies within their traditional classrooms.
• Abhijit Nadgouda, abhijit@ifacethoughts.net, http://ifacethoughts.net/ - a software engineer who operates mostly in a freelancing mode. I am an open source and Linux enthusiast. I am interested in creating a platform to connect students from various disciplines and streams, across different schools and colleges, across countries, to come together online and execute concrete ideas, not necessarily software, for any domain. I would like to integrate micro-payments and official funds to sponsor such projects.
• Chris Campbell, bitdepth AT gmail.com, http://bitdepth.org, I would like to develop a collection of resources related to filmmaking and storytelling within the context of planning for production using tools such as Celtx and developing and sharing projects using the licenses provided through the Creative Commons project. These resources and courseware would be suitable for use individually and with facilitators for preparing, managing and sharing films created using the tools that are available. Personally I'd like to use the resources in my teaching and to enable people tell their stories. I'm an independent filmmaker who teaches at the Nova Scotia Community College and a long-time Creative Commons and free software advocate. I love helping people create works and share them and constantly am seeking out new ways to tell stories, remove barriers and establish connections.
• Charles Ishikawa, charlie.ishikawa@gmail.com, Regional Public Health Planner, Cambridge Advanced Practice Center for Emergency Preparedness, Cambridge Public Health Department. Health Alert Networks (HAN) were created to better protect population health by enhancing communication amongst U.S. Public Health agencies, first responders and healthcare providers. Although fairly reliable technologies for redundant and expedient communication, these networks have not reached their full potential. There are a host of inefficiencies would be best improved by enhanced user training, protocol sharing, and evidence-based governance. I am interested in using open education technologies and practices to address system inefficiencies within the constraints of local and state Public Health.
• Melanie McBride, Mcbride DOT Melanie /at/ GMAIL http://melaniemcbride.net/about-melanie/ Please see my bio for more extensive background. I am interested in developing an open curriculum model for use by secondary and post secondary educators. I would like to propose "mashup curriculum" development licensed under CC share and share alike. By using my own existing curriculum as a starting point. I'd like to develop a simple methodology and strategy for other educators who wish to create and distribute their works this way. I am currently using Howard Rheingold's Drupal-based Social Media classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com/ as the virtual "school" for the development of my project. In addition to my love of learning and delight in all things webby, my desire to get involved in Open Education arises from my belief and motivating utopia that education as a right, not a privilege.
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