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Title: Elements of Information Ecology - An Open Source Curriculum
Location:
Global
Categories: Children’s Rights
Arts
Youth Unemployment & Entrepreneurship
Technology & Innovation
Sustainable Development
Peace, Conflict & Governance
Work & Economics
Learning & Education
Environment & Urbanization
Technology & Innovation
Animal Rights
Culture & Identity
Independent Media & Mass Media
Informal/Experiential Learning
Arts
Work & Economics
Children’s Rights
Internet Governance
Health & Wellness
Poverty
Freedom of Expression
Digital Divide
Good Governance
Peace Building
Learning & Education
Independent Media & Mass Media
Alternative Schools & Learning
Religion & Spirituality
Human Rights & Equity
Environment & Urbanization
Peace Building
HIV/AIDS
Educational Technology
Water, Oil & Energy
Ethnicity & Race
Independent Media & Mass Media
Rights of Minorities
Independent Media & Mass Media
International Aid & Debt Relief
Diseases
Consumerism & Pollution
Women’s Rights
Genocide
Substance Abuse
Poverty
LGBT Rights
Youth Unemployment & Entrepreneurship
Economic Migration & Migrant Workers
Poverty
Children’s Rights
Children’s Rights
Fitness & Sport
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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