This is an email I received from the Mozilla Education Initiative about a learning Design Challenge for students. It is part of the TOS (Teaching Open Source) initiative which started this year and is sponsored by Red Hat/Fedora and includes organisations such as Google, Gnome, Mozilla etc. The aim is to bring together open source developers and Computer/IT students, especially in the area of honour degree projects, where a student can do an honour's degree project working with open source developers ( why do a mundane project when you can do something that gets you kudos). This initiative has only been going for six months so things are at the early stages, a FOSS on-line manual for students is in the process of being written. I am acting as the main contact for students in the Tayside Region (I think I'm the only one from Scotland in TOS at the moment) and will I be making inquiries regarding the various projects and if any sponsorship money for students is available. Due to the majority of students studying Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, I will probably pursue my line of inquiry on Computer Security, Dave Humphrey of Seneca College is involved with Digital Forensics so I should get valuable information from him. If anyone has suggestions or a particular query that I should chase drop me a line off list.<br>
<br>Gordon <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Hecker</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hecker@mozillafoundation.org">hecker@mozillafoundation.org</a>></span><br>
Date: 2009/11/6<br>Subject: Mozilla Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge<br>To: Gordon Dunlop <<a href="mailto:astrozubenel@googlemail.com">astrozubenel@googlemail.com</a>><br><br><br>Dr Dunlop,<br>
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Dave Humphrey of Seneca College (lead person on our Mozilla Education<br>
initiative) referred me to you. You may have seen this already, but if<br>
not I wanted to let you know about the new Jetpack for Learning Design<br>
Challenge for which we are now accepting submissions. Perhaps some of<br>
your students may be interested in participating. Please feel free to<br>
redistribute this information to whomever you think might be<br>
interested in it.<br>
<br>
Frank<br>
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Help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore<br>
new possibilities for using Firefox add-ons to support learning<br>
online, as part of the the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge<br>
sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation with support from the MacArthur<br>
Foundation. Designers, educators and software developers who want to<br>
turn their innovative ideas into working prototypes will learn to use<br>
the new Jetpack technology from Mozilla Labs to create Firefox add-ons<br>
to support learning on the open Web, using standard web technologies<br>
like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The creators of the most promising<br>
add-ons will be invited to an intensive three-day Jetpack for Learning<br>
Design Camp (to be held in conjunction with SXSW Interactive in March<br>
2010), where they'll further refine their work and the best add-ons<br>
will be publicly recognized. For more information see<br>
<a href="http://design-challenge.mozilla.org/jetpack-for-learning" target="_blank">http://design-challenge.mozilla.org/jetpack-for-learning</a><br>
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<font color="#888888">Frank Hecker<br>
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