[dundee] Fwd: Mozilla Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge

[gordon dunlop]

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.

Gordon

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Frank Hecker <hecker at mozillafoundation.org>
Date: 2009/11/6
Subject: Mozilla Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge
To: Gordon Dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>


Dr Dunlop,

Dave Humphrey of Seneca College (lead person on our Mozilla Education
initiative) referred me to you. You may have seen this already, but if
not I wanted to let you know about the new Jetpack for Learning Design
Challenge for which we are now accepting submissions. Perhaps some of
your students may be interested in participating. Please feel free to
redistribute this information to whomever you think might be
interested in it.

Frank

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Help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore
new possibilities for using Firefox add-ons to support learning
online, as part of the the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge
sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation with support from the MacArthur
Foundation. Designers, educators and software developers who want to
turn their innovative ideas into working prototypes will learn to use
the new Jetpack technology from Mozilla Labs to create Firefox add-ons
to support learning on the open Web, using standard web technologies
like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The creators of the most promising
add-ons will be invited to an intensive three-day Jetpack for Learning
Design Camp (to be held in conjunction with SXSW Interactive in March
2010), where they'll further refine their work and the best add-ons
will be publicly recognized. For more information see
http://design-challenge.mozilla.org/jetpack-for-learning

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Frank Hecker
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